In fact, Amazon is testing anticipatory shipping, a practice in which it anticipates what shoppers need and mails the items before shoppers order them. Shoppers can keep the items they like and return those they do not want at no charge. It is also betting on cashier-free stores and AI-powered home robots.
How Netflix’s Reed Hastings rewrote the Hollywood Script
Netflix currently functions, by any measure, at a world-class level. As the year of the pandemic upends entertainment companies—Disney’s crippled theme parks, Warner Bros.’ furloughed blockbusters, AMC’s shuttered theaters—Netflix is having a moment. A moment of prestige, with a record 160 Emmy Award nominations, eclipsing the long-dominant HBO, and more Oscar nods than any other media company. A moment of influence, adding almost as many customers in the first six months of the year as in all of 2019, extending its reach to nearly 200 million subscribers in 190 countries. And a moment of profits, with sales up 25% year over year, earnings more than doubled and its stock up 50 percent, as most of the market gyrates wildly just to scratch back to even. Recent market cap: $213.3 billion.
A moving scene
‘Indiana Jones and the last crusade’ is a terrific commercial film. But it also has a few memorable scenes with great dialogues. Here’s one that encaspulates the sense of loss of a loved one perfectly. Most often one attempts to reconcile the past with the lost one, and as this is an ongoing process, one never finds enough time.
Oh, God. I’ve lost him. And I never
told him anything. I just wasn’t
ready, Marcus. Five minutes would
have been enough.
What follows is a bit cheesy and even more commercial, but overall a terrific scene that is well written and brought on to screen, by the entire team. Here is the complete scene.
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Complete Script of Indiana Jones and the last crusade