However, Joseph privately told his wife: "The dress stinks." They thought of themselves as competitive rivals for the same spotlight - she sarcastically called him: "the greatest actor in the world" and an attention-grabber, while he called her a "prima donna" who always diverted attention to herself.He also received top-billing (with Gene Hackman) over Christopher Reeve.The plot scheme of blowing up the San Andreas Fault with a nuclear device, to flood California and send it into the ocean, was also the premise of the 14th Bond filmA View to a Kill (1985)...You see, if we could just get the poor kids off the streets, out of the cities for a few months in the summer and let them learn something about nature - American ideals.He announced to his troops his plan for world conquest: "I will restore order.I will retake what is mine.I will crush any idea of freedom.I will slaughter without mercy.I will conquer without compassion.I will now lead you past the Great Wall.Once you cross, you will be indestructible.I raised you for one purpose, to enforce my will on the entire world." Simultaneously, in the underground tomb with the oracle bones, Zi Yuan chanted to revive General Ming and the ""undead"" army (buried under the Great Wall) to combat the Emperor, by sacrificing her own and Lin""s immortality: "I sacrifice my immortality and that of my daughter so that you may rise this day.(The role was also turned down by Harrison Ford and Paul Newman).Winger""s role of Emma was originally written for Sissy Spacek.The sit-com style film was about the thirty-year mother-daughter relationship between two women: stubborn brunette Emma (Debra Winger) and her devoted, possessive, blonde, widowed mother Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine).