" To smoothly exploit her, he proposes a raise (and financial security) from $30/week to $100/week if she agrees to script a radio speech for John Doe: "That""s only the beginning.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)Director Christopher Nolan brought his ""Batman rilogy"" to a close with this highly-anticipated Batman film in the series:The Dark Knight Rises (2012), following after his ownBatman Begins (2005)andThe Dark Knight (2008).It had a 1932 license.I figured hat""s when the owners had moved out.And I also figured I couldn""t go back to my apartment, now that those bloodhounds were onto me.The idea was to get to Artie Green""s and stay there until I could make that bus for Ohio.Once back in Dayton, I""d drop the credit boys a picture postcard telling them where to pick up the jalopy.Macy is superb as the desperate, wretched and incompetent car salesman and hapless husband, who is pathetically in debt, and sets the uncontrollable chain of events into motion with an ill-fated plan to have his wife kidnapped and ransomed by extorting his wealthy father-in-lawFrances McDormand, appearing a third of the way into the film, perfectly portrays the astute, level-headed, warm-hearted (even in the frozen clime), persevering, smarter-than-she-appears pregnant local Chief of Police (supplemented with her loving relationship with her husband)Its critical and box-office success also came with seven Academy Awards nominations, including Best Supporting Actor (William H.Another dissolve akes a closer look at the riverside wreckage of an auto junkyard (with a "NO DUMPING ALLOWED" sign) and the decaying, urbanized eastern city [of Philadelphia, literally the City of Brotherly Love] on the horizon.