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The Most Expensive Things in the World
| “Currently, the most expensive airport is Hong Kong International Airport, located on Chek Lap Kok island in (surprisingly enough) Hong Kong. With over 47 million travellers in 2007, HKIA is additionally one of the world’s most crowded airports. Passengers may fly in or outside via a number of airlines, such as Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong Express, Air Hong Kong and so many others with “Hong Kong” in their names. For its $20 billion building, the airport was awarded a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.” |
The most expensive movie poster is a 1927 art-deco poster made to market the German sci-fi classic Metropolis by Fritz Lang. The poster was sold to a Californian collector Ken Schacter for USD 690,000 in 2005 by Andrew Cohen, a British business person and owner of the mail-order firm Betterware. The sepia-toned poster featuring the futuristic skyline with the face of the gynoid, Maschinenmensch, was created by art-deco artist Heinz Schulz-Neudamm; a fitting representation of the most expensive silent film of its time. 3 copies of the equivalent poster are known to exist: one is currently stored at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; an additional in the Berlin's Film Museum and one belonging in a private collection. Metropolis is a movie set in a futuristic urban dystopia that explores the social dynamics within workers and owners in capitalism. The movie is one of the first full-length film of the science fiction genre, and is famous for its portrayal of a cityscape focused by high skyscrapers and monumental metal structures. |