On the Cathay Pacific flight across the Pacific to the Philippines, a preparatory team of more than 20 people from the "Journey of Misery" film crew, including the director, producer, pre-shooting photographer team, leading actors and agent team, arrived early to start preparations.
For a commercial blockbuster like "Journey of Misery" that requires shooting in a foreign country, the preliminary preparation work is quite complicated.
It is necessary to register with the Philippine cultural department in advance. For the hot scenes of gun battles between the army and police involved in the film, it is necessary to apply to the relevant departments in advance and reach an agreement on a series of issues such as the specific time, number of personnel, equipment use, and financial compensation.
, heavy equipment such as tanks, helicopters, etc. also require special applications.
According to the needs of the plot, the photographer team shoots scenes in various places in the Philippines in advance, which is also an important aspect of the preparation work.
The most important thing is that the leading actor Leonardo DiCaprio and the main actors such as Boy 2 and Boy 3 experience life. According to the plan made by director Shevchenko in advance, they need to experience life in a prison with harsh conditions for a month.
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I personally experienced the despair, helplessness and struggle to survive under the pressure of sweltering heat, humidity and heavy physical labor. The painful prison life could not extinguish the strong belief in my heart.
Experience life is an important content that cannot be ignored in film artistic creation. This is also an obligation stipulated in the film contract and must be fulfilled.
In first class
DiCaprio, wearing light casual clothes, was lying on an airline seat, with the seat tilted back 45 degrees, and was listening to music with headphones.
His eyes were slightly closed, as if he was immersed in the wonderful music.
DiCaprio could clearly feel a greedy gaze directed at him from time to time. It must be the disgusting director Shevchenko. This made him feel bored and helpless, so he had to pretend to know nothing.
A-list movie stars do have enough confidence to resist evil trends, and can even infiltrate some second- and third-tier actresses, but they are still on the weak side when faced with powerful directors and producers.
Especially for major Hollywood film companies like Marvel Entertainment, even the cameramen and lighting engineers are awesome when they go out.
There is no way, the brand is strong and confident, it is just so unreliable.
"Hey Leonardo, don't you want to talk about something during the long transoceanic flight?"
Shevchenko's eyes greedily glanced at Leo's handsome face, and then his eyes swept all the way down to his chest and thighs, and he couldn't help but swallow.
To put it bluntly, Xiao Lizi is the best among men.
Leonardo DiCaprio suddenly opened his eyes. He really couldn't stand this unabashedly fiery gaze, and said in a cold tone: "Mr. Director, I have no interest in this at all."
"Is it because the all-night party has consumed too much energy?"
"Sorry, I don't want to talk about this."
"Hey, hey, you will definitely be interested. I guess you didn't read the script carefully, right? The male protagonist you need to create has experienced painful struggles in his heart, and many convenient factors have contributed to the transformation of self-salvation. In essence, this comes from a
A man's strong sense of responsibility for his wife and family cannot be sustained by a man without firm belief."
When Shevchenko talked about the creation of the film, Leonardo DiCaprio could not continue to treat him with a cold attitude. He suppressed the discomfort in his heart and said: "Thank you, director, I will seriously explore this role."
I hope that I can vividly interpret the inner changes of the male protagonist."
"This is best. Leonardo, I have to remind you to read the script carefully."
"I will."
Leonardo DiCaprio turned his back to Shevchenko, picked up the thick stack of scripts on his seat, and read them casually.
I had a rough understanding of this story before, from the synopsis of the script;
This is a big drama in which the male protagonist carries it all alone. It is nothing more than going through all kinds of hardships and finally completing self-salvation. It is a typical Hollywood lone hero scene. If he can interpret his inner activities wonderfully, his character will undoubtedly be improved a lot. He won the Golden Globe
A nomination for an award or even an Oscar is very likely.
After all, this is a drama that has attracted much attention. Unlike an unknown work of art, it has its own topic flow and attention.
While reading the script, Leonardo's handsome face gradually became serious.
This... seems to be far more difficult than I imagined. It is not just a journey of suffering, it can be called a journey of hell.
Director Shevchenko stared closely at Leonardo's round shoulders and couldn't help but lick his dry lips, with a malicious smile on his lips.
The show is about to begin, enjoy your journey of suffering!
The Cathay Pacific Boeing 747 wide-body passenger plane flew smoothly all the way west, across the vast Pacific Ocean, and its destination was a small island country in Southeast Asia...the Philippines.
May 5, 2004
Marken Delrahim, the antitrust chief of the U.S. Department of Justice and assistant chief prosecutor, officially announced that the investigation of HSBC’s suspected monopoly case was not established, and the Antitrust Bureau gave the green light to pass it.
The long-troubled HSBC Bank's acquisition of the equity of Standard Bank of South Africa was officially approved by the antitrust agencies of the European Union, China, Japan, South Korea and the United States. HSBC acquired 51% of the equity of Standard Bank of South Africa for US$10.5 billion, becoming its controlling shareholder.
The merger was completed with one-third cash and two-thirds HSBC shares. Royal Family Fund's shareholding in HSBC dropped slightly from 57.6% to 53.5%, but it still firmly controls the controlling stake.
At this point, HSBC has completed its global banking network layout.
HSBC is headquartered at 1 Queen's Road, Hong Kong. It has more than 1,700 branches and sub-branches around the world. It operates full financial licenses from banking, insurance, life, securities, reinsurance and investment banking. It has nearly 400,000 employees and has a rich heritage and strength.
Go one step further.
Los Angeles
Office buildings in the city center.
"...Okay, gentlemen, we have done a good job during this period. Regarding the industry monopoly lawsuit initiated by Intel and IBM, we still need to fully deal with it. Do you have any good ideas about this?"
Wang Yaocheng looked around. Mr. Yu Chengde, the president of Atlantic Business Machines Company, and a group of senior executives and legal teams were all present in the huge conference room.
"Boss, we have analyzed and discussed privately and are preparing to launch a counterattack from two aspects." The speaker was Atlantic Business Machines lawyer Sapiro, who said confidently;
“According to the careful review by our patent lawyer team, Intel and IBM are suspected of patent infringement in a total of 46 products, covering hundreds of our patents in six categories. We can launch anti-patent countermeasures at product sales locations in dozens of states across the United States.
In the infringement case, we also proposed high compensation.”
"Since they want to litigate, then we will let them fight everywhere."
"According to our careful research, from a legal perspective, our lawsuit has more than 70% chance of winning. This entry point can make the opponent exhausted and eventually have to reach an out-of-court settlement with us."
“The second point is to deal a heavy blow to competitors from the supply side, which requires the assistance of the consortium to apply OEM companies such as TSMC and Hynix in the field of high-end chip manufacturing to increase the costs and pressure on competitors, forcing them to give in.
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Facing industry monopoly lawsuits filed by competitors in 11 states across the United States, Atlantic Business Machines formed a dream-level team of lawyers.
Among them are the famous black lawyer Corcoran, who once served as the personal lawyer of the white movie star Marlon Brando, and handled the case of the black football star Simpson, and Rogers, the famous commercial litigation lawyer. The above three have participated in the rights protection case of the minority shareholders of Atlantic Business Machines Company.
There are also Sean Kemp, associate dean of the University of California School of Law (currently legal counsel of Red Hat Systems), Harder Shawovich, dean of Harvard Law School (currently legal counsel of Arctic Ocean Holdings), and so on.
As a wealthy company, Atlantic Business Machines has no pressure to form a dream team of lawyers, and there is no pressure to expand its front lines.
Wang Yaocheng thought carefully and said;
“The first point is feasible and can be divided into three steps to gradually expand the scope of patent litigation and gradually put pressure on the other party.
The first step is to select a patent infringement case that is certain and supported by reliable evidence to file a lawsuit. The scale should not be too large. It should be limited to 5 to 7 states first, leaving room for negotiation.
The second step is to further expand the lawsuit to within 20 states and continue to put pressure on the opponent.
The third step is to start the fight in full force.
As for the second suggestion, it is not appropriate to implement it for the time being due to various considerations."