"In silhouette, Ashley and Melanie move toward French windows.When they are opened, the lawn is revealed outside filled with festive surroundings and guests.Lovingly, the pale, white-skinned Ashley speaks to her: "You seem to belong here.As if it had all been imagined for you." Melanie describes the aristocratic Southern style that she is marrying into: "It's more than a house.Billionaire Bruce Wayne (also George Clooney) of Wayne Enterprises held a press conference at Gotham Observatory, attended by dignitaries and his beautiful girlfriend Julie Madison (Elle Macpherson), to announce his contribution to the city - a new advanced telescope "to give future generations a chance to follow their own stars".Sternwood: I used to like mine with champagne.Champagne cold as Valley Forge and with about three ponies of brandy under it...I like o see people drink...You may take off your coat, sir...Too hot in here for any man who has any blood in his veins.You may smoke, too.I can still enjoy the smell of it.Nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.The emaciated Sternwood describes the dreariness of his existence.The humid hothouse is necessary for his survival and he is waiting for death - the "big sleep" of the title - in the temperature-controlled greenhouse:Sternwood: You are looking, sir, at a very dull survival of a very gaudy life - crippled, paralyzed in both legs, very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth he name.Feldman wanted to find a way to remove the contract stipulation that Baby Jane had to be hired along with Blanche.The Joker issued a chilling announcement to Gotham: "Come nightfall, this city is mine, and anyone left here plays by my rules.