(Memory fails to serve on the question of whether his nationality has been previously established, or whether the audience is supposed to have absorbed it from what it knows of the films origins; perhaps someone can help out with this in the comments).
Reynolds called the film "an origin story to a certain degree, but it's not a labored origin story, where the movie begins in the third act.
Mr. Segal said that by making the film an origin story — where did Maxwell Smart come from, exactly?
We chatted over the phone about the new film, the origin of Ruckus, and a bunch of other things like black self-hatred, post-Obama race relations, and why Herman Cain is a real-life Uncle Ruckus. .
The producers also slapped on an incendiary tag line trumpeting the film's origins "in South America... where Life is CHEAP!" "Snuff" was a sham, a crudely faked one at that, and a triumph of marketing.
Originally named Betty Blue, after Jean-Jacques Beineix's film, the origins of the band's name is one of great mystery.
"That's what struck me," said Loden discussing the film's origins.
"I love gore films and I grew up with '50s monster movies," Mr. O'Bannon told the journal Cinefantastique in 1979, speaking of the film's origins.
"I just remember thinking that I would like to do something simple, to try to do a romance movie and to work with Adam and to work with Emily, Mr. Andersonn said of the film's origins.
McGilligan ends his book just as Welles begins shooting "Kane," but he gives a lucid account of the film's origins, correcting the impression given in Kael's "Raising Kane".
Warner Bros. and friends have been selling the hell out of the movie, in the hopes that Chinese audiences would be pleased by the DC Films fantasy origin story.
