He was greeted in a great hall by a robed figure on a throne calling himself Ra's al Ghul (Ken Watanabe).She admitted to her dire financial situation: "I'm as flat as a millpond." Her inherited "rat-trap" theater in London had been condemned as a "spiders' rendezvous" and locked up for six months, ending a rental revenue flow."The announcer described Rocky's dismal chances as he approached closer to the ring: "A fifty-to-one underdog living a Cinderella story, but he's captured people's imaginations all over the world.Yes.Yes.It's quite possible.If he were certain the show would fail, a man could make a fortune.Max overheard Leo talking to himself and came over o him - and repeated Leo's perfect rascally-scheme or plan: "You were saying that under the right circumstances, a producer could make more money with a flop than he could with a hit.