Editor: You told me a bit about the first movie, but you didn’t really tell me the story. So what happens in the first movie? Let’s start from the beginning.
Power of Danger Creator: It’s called The Mask of Weapons. The first part he, um, there was something and he couldn’t shoot so he had to tear up his prey.
Editor: Tear up his prey? You mean rip them apart?
PoDC: Sort of.
Editor: That sounds pretty violent.
PoDC: What does violent mean?
Editor: Um. It means that people are getting really hurt. Very seriously. I don’t think you mean it to be that serious. Do you understand how serious the fighting sounds in this movie? It sounds like people are getting really very hurt.
PoDC: No, the ones that are really getting hurt are the bad guys. Is that good?
Editor: Not really. Just because they’re bad doesn’t mean it’s OK for them to get hurt. Only if they’re really hurting you or others and you need to protect yourself. Let’s get back to the story. How does it start?
PoDC: It starts with a bad guy and he’s fighting him and he goes into the real world of India because he falls down a hole and he’s locked in a cage with a bad guy and if you fall down a hole you get untrapped. Because it saves you.
Editor: Who goes into the real world of India? The Power of Danger or the bad guy or both?
PoDC: Both of them. Both of them go into the real world of India.
Editor: What’s the bad guy’s name?
PoDC: He’s a nice bad guy. His name is Peter Alley. The other bad guys that are really bad, they call him other names, but Peter Alley is a good bad guy.
Editor: What is a good bad guy?
PoDC: They’re bad guys that are on the heroes’ team.
Editor: Does that mean they do bad things, but they do them to help people?
PoDC: Yeah. They do them to help people. He’s the only good bad guy in the movie.
Editor: OK, so they fall into the hole, out of the cage, and into India. What happens there?
PoDC: I wanted to tell you they live in different places. Peter Alley lives in China and Power of Danger lives in India.
Editor: I know, you told me that before. What happens when they both get to the real world of India?
PoDC: Well, Power of Danger can move but Peter Alley gets stuffed. He can’t move and he gets stuffed and he just can’t move. He has to be dugged up before he can move. Power of Danger digs him up but just a little bit. He doesn’t put his foot on it. He only uses his hands because he doesn’t want him to get hurt. Well, he digs it all the way. Peter Alley is 19 years old and so he’s bigger. The powerfullest hero of all is The Power of Danger. There’s a part and he’s racing a ria.
Editor: What’ a ria? How do you spell it?
PoDC: Let me get my book. [Returns with The Encyclopedia of Animals] Rhea. Let me tell you about it. [PoDC proceeds to read to me about what a rhea is (ostrich-like birds).]
Editor: Did that happen in the first movie?
PoDC: Yeah. His other brother is Diego. He’s eight years old.
Editor: You already told me about his brothers, but you didn’t tell me about Diego. Let’s get back to the story. After Power of Danger digs out Peter Alley, what happens?
PoDC: Well he can move again and he turns bad.
Editor: Like really bad, or a good bad guy.
PoDC: Just a little bad. If 500 days is over, he will be a good bad guy again.
Editor: So after he turns bad, what does he do?
PoDC: He turns onto the bad guys’ team.
Editor: Right. I understand that, but what happens in the movie. Do Power of Danger and Peter Alley fight? Do they part ways and go do different things?
PoDC: No, they fight to see who will win the challenge. If Power of Danger wins, Peter Alley will turn good. If Peter Alley wins, he will turn even more bad and it will be an even bigger challenge. Even before, Power of Danger is a great sword fighter. He could get a sword on you because you can’t get your sword on him because he reaches back like this [PoDC leans back and juts his arm forward; it looks like he’s fencing].
Editor: So this sound like an interesting start to a movie. Especially if Peter Alley gets away and they have to fight later. Is that what happens?
PoDC: No. They fight. Power of Danger wins. Peter Alley’s sword is a magnet, a whip, and a sword. You know what Power of Danger’s tools are. A whip, a gun, and a sword. A gun is available in the fight.
Editor: I’m not sure I like that you’re putting guns in the fight. They’re very violent.
PoDC: OK, let’s get back to the movie. The second part is a rockslide. He goes in a mountain and there’s a lot of dust and he falls and he’s alright and he slide right into the tigers’ home. And the tigers think, there are 60 tigers, “Hmmm. Should we keep him?” That’s because he was so cute.
Editor: They didn’t want to eat him for dinner?
PoDC: No. They were Bengal tigers. B-E-N-G-A-L. OK. So they kept him and he was a helper and he got what the tigers ate. They eat [reading from his encyclopedia] deer, pigs, cattle, antelope, some smaller mammals and birds.
Editor: I think you’re going to have to save that thought. Your sister is waking up from her nap. We’ll talk more about this later, OK? Think about what you want to happen in the first movie. and we’ll finish telling the story later.
PoDC: [Dejected] OK.