Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai (1947) received top-level, "prestige" backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.
With that prestige to back him, relying on his dominant personality, and building on the foundations of the brilliant civilization developed in China by the preceding Song dynasty (960 1279), Kublai could maintain the illusion for a while that Mongol supremacy was firmly based.
If you want to undermine American productivity, as well as the power and prestige of the United States, step back and allow the financial sector to go crazy again.
In the wake of Sacasa's announcement, Mexico sided with Sacasa; the United States, involved in a dispute with Mexico and determined to prevent Mexico from gaining the prestige of backing a winning candidate, supported Díaz.
Because of prestige and backed up by a sound financial position, the director and supervisory board continued the project and step by step saw their initially planned €24 million budget, increase to more than €65 million and to €136 million in 2007.
"There was a lot of prestige in coming back.
"If Russia uses its influence on Assad, it could win back prestige in the region as a peacemaker," said Margarete Klein, a Russia expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
Not only could you use the million bucks to pay those legal bills, but the prestige would also back off Starr's replacement, Robert Ray.
Despite the prestige in bringing back Ohlmeyer, a legendary producer-director who last year retired after a successful run as the president of NBC's West Coast entertainment operations, yesterday's changes were stunning.
Cadillac is determined to win back prestige and volume and is doing it, too.
