Right after a female customer leaves a bank teller window, a male approaches. He whips out a gun, points it at the woman teller and orders everybody to get down. Next we hear screams from understandably scared customers.
But the action takes an offbeat turn when the robber’s instructions to the teller consist primarily of his revealing personal information, including his age (34), height (5 feet, 11 inches), build (slim), address, phone number and cell phone number.
He then puts a duffle bag on the teller window counter, relating a more conventional directive, namely to put the money in the bag.
A parting super against a dark backdrop provides a wake-up call to reality, simply reading, “Crimes don’t solve themselves.”
This is followed by the logo for Crime Stoppers, Toronto, accompanied by a toll-free phone number (1 800 222-TIPS) and the slogan, “Make the anonymous call.”
“Bank Robber” was directed by James Haworth of Untitled, Toronto, for DDB Canada, Toronto.
The agency creative team consisted of senior VP/creative director Andrew Simon, copywriter Shane Ogilvie, art director Mark Bovey and producer Andrew Schulze.
James Davis executive produced for Untitled, with Aerin Barnes serving as exec producer/producer and Justin Edmund-White as producer. The DP was Jonathon Cliff.
Editor was Brian Williams of Panic & Bob, Toronto.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
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