The gender swap brought an entirely new angle to the film, making it more than a satirical view and social commentary on the operation of a newsroom under the management of a hard-boiled, smart-alec managing editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant in this version, Adolphe Menjou in the earlier film), and providing an additional feminine-romance angle.He asserted that there was no evidence that anything happened to Whitney: "There""s no car, no witnesses, nothing.After a search, the house seemed abandoned, although video surveillance cameras were active.In the library, Professor Maxwell marveled at "absolute treasures" including a first edition copy ofA Tale of Two Cities, when Ridley (still in his Mummy costume and acting weirdly) burst through a bookcase from a hidden Panic Room, equipped with a one-foot thick steel-reinforced door and multiple video camera monitors showing all angles of the isolated property.The blades glowed blue when Orcs or Goblins were closeby.Gandalf explained: "True courage is about knowing not when to take a life but when to spare one."Outside the cave, they were confronted by wizard Radagast, who reported: "Something""s terribly wrong.He reported to the piloting commander""s bridge, entering a security door with a shatter-proof glass barrier by inserting his hand into an ID system.