This period piece takes us to an old wild west era as soldiers hunt down fugitive Ned Kelly who’s wanted dead or alive. Clearly his pursuers have opted for the former as they fire a rapid fire succession of bullets at him. But Kelly is wearing a full metal suit as protection, including a metal mask/hood which covers his head. The bullets ricochet off him as he finds shelter in a cabin.
Nonetheless the force of the bullets has taken its toll as he removes the mask and understandably has a splitting headache.
He reaches for a bottle of Nurofen which a voiceover describes as getting to “the source of your pain,” providing “fast, effective relief.”
Indeed the man appears relieved as he puts his metal hood on a stool and positions it so it can be seen through a cabin window. The men outside riddle the helmet/hood with bullets, which is enough of a diversion for Kelly to go out the back door and make good his escape on a horse.
A parting super shows us the Nurofen logo, accompanied by the slogan, “Targeted relief from pain.”
“Ned Kelly” was directed by David Denneen of Filmgraphics, Sydney, for Euro RSCG, Sydney. (Denneen is repped stateside by Los Angeles-based Form.)
The Euro RSCG team included creative director Rowan Dean and producer John Lamble.
Anna Fawcett exec produced for Filmgraphics. Matt Stewart was the DP.
Editor was Toby Denneen of Filmgraphics.
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.
Gorsuch labeled arguments advanced by the Biden administration' in defense of the law a... Read More