the bat-plane has left hongkong

A List Of Things Billionaires Can Do In The Far East:

01. snap purdy pictures of the crowded streets and citizens thronging the urban jungle that which is Hong Kong, as well as of strange-men dressed up in all-black hanging around rooftops.

02. dress-up in all-black armor, with a bat-eared hood and attempt to bungie-jump off a skyscraper under the cover of night. (with picture taken by strange-men in suits)

03. recruiting would-be assassins into the Fraternity ... (oops, wrong character, wrong movie :p)


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(all images via SHH's vibrant Batman-forum)


seriously, it was pretty hard to ignore the hullabaloo surrounding the filming of Chris Nolan's The Dark Knight in HongKong, what with multiple news-casts (youtubed, no less - heck even Singapore news is reporting on it right now on the telly LOL) and spy-pics galore of Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne) and Morgan Freeman (Lucius Fox), cancelled murky harbour-water jumps and Edison Chen having a cameo role as a villain (must've been a slow news day :p) ... one thing stuck me most, was a quote in the local newspapers - where director Johnnie To (who accused the HK government of supporting foreign productions more) exclaimed: "The government supports them 100 per cent but doesn't do it when we make a movie - not even 1 per cent" [Straits Times / Life!BUZZ - circa Nov 13, 2007]

and while i dare not claim to have any previous "direct" dealings with the powers-that-be in Singapore, somehow i reckon this may be the same for most some Asian-countries (and no, i have no tangible proof of that speculation) ... it's always the "others are better than our own", isn't it? hhhmmm ...


nevertheless, filming in HK has ended just, and for me personally, i had to bust out the Batman Begins-DVD to have yet another viewing, to remind me why i should continue bothering and reporting on The Dark Knight ... *heh*