Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 118 Maverick
"Sorry, I wasted a little time..."

Hollywood, Hughes Film and Television Studios.

Hughes came to the studio and apologized to Colin and Roy.

"It's okay, in fact, if you don't say it, none of us will notice it."

Putting down the coffee cup in his hand, Colin glanced at Hughes who had put on a clean outfit before him, and said with a smile.

Severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, this is another well-known point of Howard Hughes in addition to aerospace engineers, entrepreneurs, film directors, and playboys.

Of course, the characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder in him are not obvious at present, and it is far from the level of inability to contact people as it was later.

Hearing Colin's answer, Hughes nodded noncommittally.

Sitting down on the sofa in the studio, he pointed to the cigars on the tea table and asked the two of them, "Would you like one?"

"Do not."

Colin shook his head.

Aside, Roy glanced at the brand on the cigar box, and hesitantly refused.

"You're missing out on a valuable experience."

Seeing that the two shook their heads and refused, Hughes did not try to persuade him. He picked out a cigar from the neatly placed cigar box, struck a match while preheating it, and said to Colin in front of him: "So, What are your thoughts on the Titanic script?"

"Love, an eternal theme."

Taking his eyes away from the cigar in Hughes' hand, Colin spoke out the draft he had already prepared in his heart.

Although he didn't know much about cigars, he could easily see that the box of cigars in front of Hughes was not cheap.Otherwise, Roy would not refuse the other party's invitation, too expensive sharing would be a burden on people instead.

"love?"

Hearing this, Hughes raised his eyebrows and put down the match in his hand, picked up the cigar cutter and said in a daze, "It's really an old story."

As a well-known playboy in Hollywood, his emotional experience covers almost half of the beautiful actors in Hollywood.

However, it was such an existence who died alone in his last years without even leaving any heirs.

Skillfully cutting off the cigar cap, Hughes calmed down his emotions, and the expression on his face regained his indifferent look. He took a sip of the cigar and said, "However, who made Hollywood prefer such stories."

Influenced by his playwright uncle, Rupert Hughes, Hughes was extremely skilled in the Hollywood industry.

In fact, the first movie "Playboy Hogan" he invested in his life was his uncle Rupert Hughes who was the first audience after the film was completed. After watching it, Rupert told Hughes that if he took This kind of film will be ridiculed by the whole Hollywood if it is released.

After hearing this, Hughes burned all the reels of the film and lost $8

"The truth is, the story repeats all the time, it's the person who tells the story, and the angle from which it's told."

He picked up the coffee in his hand and took a sip.

Under the gaze of Hughes, Colin said: "As for the story of the Titanic, as long as someone is interested, they will be able to see many details related to it from past news reports, including the testimonies of the survivors. , this is news that is already well known to the public, and what we have done is to extract this story that originally only existed in news reports and the memory of a few people, so that those audiences who have never experienced the sinking of a big ship can also tell the story through movies. Screening on the big screen, personally experiencing the disaster that happened on the Titanic..."

"Experienced that disaster firsthand."

Hearing Colin's description, Hughes put down his hand holding the cigar and murmured.

"That's right, in fact, I'm more inclined to define the movie Titanic as a disaster movie than the composition of love."

Disaster films are a type of film, a type of film with horror, panic, tragic plots and catastrophic landscapes as the main viewing effects.This genre was only mass-produced after the 20s, and the term became popular in the 50s.

In Hollywood at this time, it was still a brand-new genre.

After all, it has only been a few years since movies changed from silent to sound. A few years ago, audiences were just applauding black and white silent movies on the screen in movie theaters.

Disaster films, this kind of films that need to be rendered to stimulate the audience's sense of fear to obtain the viewing effect, without the support of sound, it is difficult to achieve the desired effect.

In this case, it is like turning off the sound in a horror movie.

This is why, during the silent film era, most of the movies were mainly comedies, because comedy can be done through body movements, and horror movies, Hollywood's production in this area is relatively successful. The most famous American horror film in the silent film era is 1920. "Doctor Jack and Mr. Hyde", "The Ghost at the Opera House" in 1925.

But the real classics were Browning's "Dracula" in 1931 and James Wheel's adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein".

With the success of these two films, horror films began to pour out of Universal's assembly line.

In 1932 alone, a series of horror-themed movies such as "The Mummy", "The Invisible Man", "The Old Black House", and "Freaks" were produced.

These capitals, Universal has been eating into the 21st century.

"Disaster movie?" Hughes lowered his head and took a sip of his cigar. The two mustaches on Hughes' lips curled up, and he affirmed: "A vivid title."

"I can't wait to see those audiences in the cinema and witness the sinking of the big ship with my own eyes."

Not to mention Hughes, even Roy who was on the side was attracted by the scene described by Colin, with a look of approval on his face.

Film itself is a highly fanciful profession, and Hughes himself happens to be such an idealist.

Once entering the working state, Hughes showed a completely different appearance from before.

In the studio, Colin and Roy witnessed him finalize the shooting plan for the movie "Titanic" in just half an hour.

At the same time, in order to completely reproduce the scene in the news accident.

He was even whimsical and wanted to find a real iceberg as a disaster scene in the movie.

No, it shouldn't be described as whimsical.

Because, Hughes didn't just talk casually, in fact he did the same.

In order to find the perfect iceberg that sank the Titanic in his mind, he has already made an itinerary and plans to take a photography team to the spot where the Titanic sank to take pictures of the iceberg that sank the giant ship.

(End of this chapter)