hollywood melon man

Chapter 502 Chicago Robbery
After her birthday, Jennifer Connelly looked more and more radiant, her form improved suddenly, and her performance was remarkable.

The rest of the actors were also in pretty good shape, allowing the crew to maintain a very fast progress and complete the filming of the film as planned.

However, before Christmas, the crew encountered an accident.

As we all know, Chicago is a crime capital, with crimes running rampant. Various cases of robbery, drug trafficking, and protection racket are emerging one after another, and the police are overwhelmed.

So there is a saying in Chicago: Chicago's daytime belongs to the police, and Chicago's nighttime belongs to the gangs.

Generally speaking, gangs will control the behavior of gang members so that they do not cross the line, so as to avoid attracting the attention of the police and becoming the target of major crackdowns. The two sides maintain a strange balance.

But occasionally there are independent or unruly criminals and gang members who do serious things, and that's when the Chicago police need to step in.

The crew of "The Dark Knight" encountered the same situation. The crew was filming in the South City of Chicago. This is a civilian area in Chicago with chaotic public security.

In order to ensure the safety of the crew, elite personnel from Gilbert Jr.'s security company protected the crew's filming safety with guns, and the Chicago police also sent a team of special police to take charge of security work.

But the situation in South City is complicated, with many alleys and lanes, and it is well connected, so you never know where a person might appear in any alley.

Of course, Chicago's gangs and criminals are sensible.

If you rob ordinary people, it's not a big problem.

But if you dare to rob a Hollywood crew, which includes a famous super-rich man like Gilbert Jr., you will surely face a catastrophic disaster.

Because not only was Little Gilbert being paid attention to and protected in the white world, but several bigwigs in the underworld in Chicago were also fans of Little Gilbert.

Despite so many prerequisites, unexpected things still happen.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, a private bank on Mount Street was about to close. This bank was a branch of Lowe Brothers Bank in Chicago. Similar private small and medium-sized banks are common in North America.

The bank manager handled the day's business as usual and compiled it into a book.

The bank staff were doing the final cleanup work, and the door of the vault was temporarily opened. There were still a few customers in the bank hall, handling their banking business.

At this moment, a group of five gangsters drove a pickup truck, each loaded their automatic rifles, then rushed forward wearing masks and carrying bags and knocked down several security guards at the bank entrance.

"Da da da da..." The leading robber fired a burst of bullets at the ceiling with a rifle, which immediately scared the customers and bank employees who were doing business and made them scream loudly.

Through the eyes exposed through the masks, we can see that these robbers have fierce eyes and do not hesitate at all, which shows that they have done such things many times.

"Listen carefully, we are here just to get some money." The leader of the gangsters shouted with a loudspeaker and a gun, "As long as you don't move, there will be no danger."

Hearing some people screaming in fear, the gangster shouted again: "Whoever screams again, I will shoot him dead."

Sure enough, as soon as this sentence came out, those who were still trembling, crying and shouting dared not to shout anymore. They could only squat on the ground with their heads in their hands, waiting for the verdict of fate.

At this moment, a hand quietly touched the alarm and pressed it.

Alarms suddenly sounded in the bank lobby, and the Chicago police arrived in less than twenty minutes.

The leader of the gang was very angry and pulled out the employee who pressed the alarm, then shot him dead. This brutal scene once again frightened the crowd and made them scream and cry.

The gangsters kept shouting at the crowd, and only then did they quiet down a bit.

The other three gangsters gathered the remaining people in the bank lobby and began to install time bombs everywhere.

The robber held the remote control to detonate the time bomb and shouted to the crowd: "Don't worry, we will return the remote control to you after we leave.

I am an ethical robber, can't you see that?"

A moral robber would shoot and kill people? Or plant a time bomb?
The bank employees and customers who were taken hostage were secretly complaining but did not dare to say it out loud. They could only tremble in fear and wait for rescue.

Because the vault door was open, the criminals didn't have to break it down, they could just go in and put the money into their bags.

Two gangsters outside tied the hostages together, preventing them from moving freely.

"Okay..." said a gangster.

Hearing the sirens outside, the leading gangster held the detonator and swaggered out with the other four gangsters, carrying large and small bags on their backs.

"There are time bombs all around here, and I made them all." The leading gangster said, "If you don't want to fly into the sky with this building, let's leave.

otherwise……"

The gangster held up the remote control in his hand: "I will press this button and the bomb will explode immediately."

The police negotiators tried to negotiate, but the gang wouldn't listen, and the police had no intention of fighting. With such a small salary each month, it wasn't worth risking their lives for this.

So the gangsters were able to get into the car in broad daylight and drove away under the watchful eyes of the police.

The remote control was thrown out by the gangster, but the time bomb inside had already been activated.

Hearing the screams of the hostages inside, the police had to send bomb disposal experts to defuse the bomb, and at the same time mobilize police forces to encircle and suppress this gang of gangsters.

But the criminals were familiar with the Chicago area. They changed cars several times and escaped the police's sight many times. Finally, the police locked down the criminals who were moving in the alleys in the South City.

The area where the gangsters passed happened to be the filming site of "Batman Begins".

Gilbert Jr. was directing the scene, which happened to include a gunfight, and the stuntman was ready to complete the difficult action scenes that Christie Bale could not accomplish.

The Batmobile was parked just below the intersection, looking pretty wild in the dark.

If you didn't know this, you would really be scared by this Batmobile.

"Pay attention to the gunfight scenes later. Listen to instructions and don't just shoot randomly." Action director Luca Farias was communicating with the actors. "Luca, are you ready?"

"Almost there, director. Give me five minutes."

"OK, let's finish it quickly."

At this time, Ivanka received a call and came over to Gilbert with a serious face and said, "A group of gangsters robbed the bank and fled to the south city."

Little Gilbert was stunned and asked quickly: "Will it pass through our area?"

"It's unclear because the police temporarily lost their position."

Little Gilbert didn't hesitate: "Then we'll call it a day after we finish this shot to avoid any accidents. Also notify Paul to pay attention to security."

"Okay," Ivanka went down to do the work.

"Little Gilbert, should he be okay?" Charles Rowan asked from the side.

"Of course it's okay. The bandits are only after money. As long as we don't stop them, I'm sure they won't conflict with us."

Little Gilbert said this, and ordered the studio to get ready and leave after shooting this scene.

Although he was alert, he didn't think the robbers were heading in this direction. But as long as there was a possibility, no matter how small the probability was, it would happen.

As luck would have it, this gang of thugs were heading towards the filming location of the "The Mystery of the Swordsman" crew.

Little Gilbert was shouting "get ready", but before he could finish saying 123, he heard the sound of gunfire.

"Who?" Little Gilbert was furious. "It hasn't even started yet, and you're already pressing the prop gun?"

A staff member came over in a panic and reported: "Director, a group of thugs broke into our blockade from an alley on the right. They just opened fire to disperse the crowd."

"Ah?" Little Gilbert was stunned for a moment, looked at Charles Rowan, and quickly shouted: "What are you still standing there for? Hide quickly."

"What about the props? And the camera?"

"Never mind. Human life comes first at this time. Let's hide first."

The entire crew and even the security personnel instantly scattered like birds and beasts, looking for places to hide.

When the gangsters arrived in the south city, they changed to motorcycles, carried five large bags on their backs, held guns in their hands, and whizzed through the alleys.

Then a magical scene happened. The leading gangster in front was nervous and couldn't see clearly because it was dark.

When he rushed onto the road, he suddenly noticed the Batmobile parked at the intersection and a life-size model of Batman next to it, and was instantly startled.

"Huh? Batman?"

"What? Batman?"

The five gangsters were all stunned when they saw the Batmobile and the Batman model in the middle of the intersection, and their motorcycles stopped immediately.

The superhero Batman may not be known to everyone in North America, but at least most people know that he is a superhero who punishes evil and promotes good.

Because bank robbery is a high-risk activity that is so exciting, the robbers were so excited that they mistakenly thought that Batman was coming to arrest them.

The leader of the gang became furious: "What Batman? I'll beat him up without hesitation."

As he spoke, he took the lead in raising his gun and fired at the Batmobile. The other four gangsters also fired, leaving this expensive prop car with holes everywhere.

A photography assistant who was hiding in the crew recorded this scene with a handheld camera.

Charles Roven leaned out of the window and said in agony: "Our Batmobile is smashed."

It was the first time for little Gilbert to experience such a scene, but he was still relatively calm, and he was also at a loss whether to laugh or cry when he heard the robbers' reactions outside.

"It seems that our Batman can already run into reality to catch people."

Ivanka was speechless. At this time, she was still in the mood to make jokes.

"Ivanka, have you told the police the location?"

"Already notified."

"OK, let's not show our heads. The robbers are very nervous now, and we will be shot if we show our heads." Little Gilbert ordered.

Everyone cherished their own lives, so they certainly didn't dare to show their heads at this time, and they all huddled up and hid.

After a burst of shooting, the robbers smashed the Batmobile model to pieces and it was smoking, only then did they realize that there was no Batman at all and they had been deceiving themselves.

"Fuck," the leading robber spat.

He knew that there was a film crew filming in Chicago, but he didn't expect to end up on the set.

Those people must have all hidden themselves now, and I was unlucky enough to run into a weird-shaped Batmobile and Batman model, and scare myself.

The most important thing now is to escape, so there is no need to worry about this. The five gangsters got on their motorcycles again and drove away.

This delay allowed the Chicago police to locate the criminals and eventually capture them on the highway as they were escaping Chicago.

On the crew side, no one was injured except for two unlucky guys who sprained their ankles in their haste to escape, but everyone was frightened.

(End of this chapter)