during a random read through of some pages here, there were two points brought up a few times that i wanted to discuss:

1) that the whole "hong kong" thing didn't need to happen

in addition to providing some very, very kickass scenes (diving off the skyscraper, the hookshot, etc) i think the driving purpose of this scene was to stress batman's heroic role not only to gotham, but the world. ironically two fold, it also served the purpose of proving to harvey dent how great / important batman was. it was an example of how harvey could use batman to solve a problem he couldn't solve himself -- the money was purposefully taken out of gotham, out of dent's reach.


2) the "timing" of the hookshot was a bit too perfect

first off, that seems a little movie nitpicky to me. but, even still, the timing works out. for starters, batman did wait by the broken window for a few pauses, as the beacon calling in the plane had its chance to ...well, beacon. and secondly, the entire thing was timed: before leaping into the building, batman shot the glass where he'd escape with timed explosives. he, presumably, gave himself enough time to hop in, grab the chinamen (who was the issue) and bounce.

so there.

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