The film was inspired by director Kurt Hoffmann""s German movie comedy/musicalFanfares of Love (1951)(aka Fanfaren der Liebe) with a similar plot element hat writer/director Wilder borrowed: two down-on-their-luck, unemployed jazz musicians dress up as women in order to get two weeks of work in an all-women""s dance band bound for Florida, after witnessing a gang-land massacre in Prohibition-Era Chicago and being pursued by the mob.Kane""s personal assistant) was able to easily ask for a photocopy without following through on their intricate plan." With the warhead, Evil suggested demanding a ransom of $1 million dollars.Number Two suggested a larger, inflation-based figure (since Virtucon was already making $9 billion a year) -- and the demand was raised to $100 billion.In the shells was an experimental chemical weapon, a binary nerve agent causing symptoms of late-stage cerebral palsy - "the most massive attack in the history of chemical warfare.