The Boy denied he charge, but it was hopeless.He was banished by the Girl""s father ("I""m sorry, my boy, but we never want to see you in this house again").He disdainfully described his long-standing hatred for the Orcs hat over many years had hunted, enslaved, and tortured his kind - he claimed that he was the last remaining skin-changer.The film was made for a budget of about $1.8 million, but it became Billy Wilder""s first major financial box-office disaster since he began a long string of hits beginning in the early 1940s.The film lost both the Best Director and Best Picture awards to Robert Redford""sOrdinary People (1980).At the opening ceremonies of the Olympics as the torch was to be lit, Superman committed another act of malicious vandalism - he blew out, with a gust of Super-breath, the Olympic Flame being carried by an Olympic marathon Runner (David Fielder).