Originally posted by: Tiptup
The goat musician was awesome. I thought that was so freakin' cool that they had the guts to put that in. It fit the style of the movie completely in my mind. You were all thinking that the story was uber-serious?

Well, considering that, along with that thing with the knife-hands, he's one of the two distinctly non-human characters in the film, and also considering the fact that he just comes out of nowhere for five seconds bobbing his head around, then yes, it WAS ridiculous. The audience I was with first were muttering "what the fuck" when knife-man showed up, and then the goat got a large amount of laughter.

What's worse is why he relates to this story. He's just kind of...there. It's never explained if he speaks, why Xerxes hired him (although I'm sure he goes over great at parties), and what his function is, aside from window dressing. It's a campy moment in an otherwise serious scene when hunchback man is being tempted by the dark side, so to speak.