It started, like I said, as a ...
and then it was a bunch of notes that kept drawing my eye...
And now here it is. Odd how the internal logic of a story - any story, even a fan-fic film - can keep drawing us on, suggesting consequences and permutations. This one certainly did, but maybe that shouldn't be a big surprise, since Lee and Kirby laid down an admirably tight little structure in Fantastic Four, that can be consulted at need even when you're making ludicrous or unnecessary changes.
And I guess I may have more to say about that later, but for now, if you can stand the humiliation...
both mine, and yours...
Here's...
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ACT TWO: It's two years later. A van loaded with equipment from Stark Enterprises is approaching a castle (!) in upstate New York.
..yes, it was flown over by some rich foreign guy and rebuilt brick-by-brick, and guess who that is?
Von Dum's flunky comes out to meet the van, leads the Stark employees into the castle, where mirrors are busily being covered, and black crepe hung up everywhere ...
there's something kind of funny about these delivery men, though, something similar and just slightly off; they're simultaneously more and less curious than they ought to be...
the flunky talks up the castle's history (expositing a bit for the audience), but they seem to be more interested in its layout...
peculiar-looking and -acting people, they're a bit like the Agents in the Matrix, in that although they don't look identical, they seem not to know this. They insist on getting von Dum's signature for the equipment..
. Meanwhile, Victor is in a hushed and beautifully-furnished study somewhere upstairs from the main hall, unpacking a large box that has been sent all the way from Latveria: his father's effects, and things he wanted Victor to have after he died. There is a painting on the wall dating from the Middle Ages, showing a von Dum ancestor clad in a thick green cloak, wearing a golden coronet, and holding a sceptre: the resemblance to Victor is uncanny.
From inside the box, Victor draws out the coronet and the sceptre.
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