At the nearby bar, a suave and glib Nick Charles (William Powell), a retired former sleuth, made a memorable first appearance in the film...To the primitive mind, any sufficiently-advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic.But imagine: cities, vehicles, weapons, entire continents - all grown.To think that one could create a new world with such a simple little object.It""s like a seed.And all it needs is water." After a small portion of one of the crystals was cut off, Stanford dropped it into a pool of water within Luthor""s model version of the cityscape (with moving trains)...After this, we""re giving our customers talking pictures and nothing else."Kent predicted that he would be out of a job soon: "I gotta break the bad news to the wife.Bread line, I hear you calling me." In his NYC apartment, he told his wife Cynthia Kent (Renee Whitney) the ""bad news"":"Public wants talking pictures and talking pictures only.Both fighters were severely challenged and hurt through the entire boxing match ("They""re leaving nothing on the table, guys") -- shot in a montage of slow-motion and black/white, in part -- and at times, Rocky imagined Mickey coaching him ("Go through him! Run over him!") and Adrian cheering him at ringside.