" The stern-faced Belden landlady Maria Poole (Emily Fitzroy) towers over Anna and demands to know: "Where""s your husband?" Anna hesitates and nervously responds: "Oh, he""s - he""s away.Director Cimino was also criticized as distortedly and one-sidedly portraying all the Vietnamese characters in the film as despicable, sadistic racists and killers." Daggett had employed Bane and the mercenaries to secure diamond mining rights in West Africa before bringing Bane to Gotham City, to help take-over rival Wayne Enterprises.He had to endure the patriotic singing of the Soviet Union""s national anthem, as a gargantuan crimson banner of the fighter was raised.