Top cast:Johannes Poulsen,Ellen Aggerholm,Rasmus Ottesen
Director:Kenneth Branagh
Genre:Drama
Region:Norway
Year:2006
Storyline:Outside he hotel, Stebbins briefly met Jones on his way out of the hotel o the luncheon.The womanizing Stebbins was caught in a lie - he claimed he had another appointment - "lunching with old man Clark" of the International Press, but was interrupted by a young blonde floozie.In fact, he ponders with surprise: "I wonder why he left me all that money.I don""t need it!" [Note: The groans from a Depression-Era audience must have been audible.]During lunch, Cedar expresses Cobb""s function as a ""buffer"" for Deeds: "Rich people need someone to keep the crowds away." He then told her: "I was thinking about fighting." Adrian was against any more boxing for him: "What about your eye? The doctor said you shouldn""t fight anymore.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.Meanwhile, Vosen was testifying that there was a problem with Treadstone six years earlier.As a result, the Blackbriar program "was activated solely to capture a Treadstone operative gone rogue.