 The sequence of Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe (qv)) talking to his  board members begins with the same shot (a steady pull back along a  table framed symmetrically) and dialogue "Costs are down, revenues  are up, and our stock has never been higher" as a scene in  _Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994)_ (qv), in which Sam Raimi (qv) was  co