Following his return from Malacca, Chai makes a call to Inspector Cheung (Danny Lee) telling him his plan to take out Yung so that Cheung can take all the credit. He makes his call from a phone box located on Nathan Road opposite the Peninsula Hotel. It looks to me like a prop because in one shot the phone box is facing the hotel on the other side of the road, and then in the next it has turned at an angle so that we can see the end of the hotel building facing Salisbury Road.
Notice in the top image how the left arched window aperture is missing the molding from its keystone? That has since been replaced and the rectangular hole next to it has been filled in. As you can see, most of the things I notice in these images are of no interest to anyone...
No doubt the Google location marker will have jumped to a nearby building, but to be clear, this is on the south east corner of the Nathan/Middle Road junction.
Your trained eye must spot everything to identify some of the obscure locations you've managed. I once located a house used in a TVB series because it had slightly mismatched bricks along one side of its garage and those bricks remain today. The house was in a neighbourhood full of cookie cutter houses and since it was near where I had once lived, giving up on locating it was not an option.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I still don't have to heart to click on the link you provided to see Tsing Bik Villa blown up.
Hi Rodney. I spot stuff but miss other things as well. I shouldn't worry about the link, it doesn't get blown up per se, just lots of movie-style, firey, gas-powered explosions. I suspect the real demolition came after with some heavy machinery. Phil
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