Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 293 Countdown to Sinking

In the script of "Titanic", Jack Dawson is a down-and-out painter who wins a lower-class ticket in a gamble on the dock.

Leslie Howard has obviously been well substituted into this role. He is dressed in plain clothes and wears a peaked cap that is very common in this era, giving people a rustic feeling.

However, compared to the Jack in Colin's memory, Leslie Howard has a bit of self-confidence on his body. Even if he is dressed cheaply, he still can't conceal his self-confidence.This is the difference in the understanding of roles by different actors. Whether it is Katharine Hepburn or Leslie Howard, they are not the actors of the original "Titanic" after all.

Therefore, even if they play the same role and script, they form completely different styles because of their different interpretations.

Not to mention, the film's director, Howard Hughes.

This is a guy who is more perfect than James Cameron. After all, even Cameron can't sink a real giant ship for a movie.

"Good afternoon, Hepburn."

"Good afternoon, Director Howard Hughes."

From the greetings of Katharine Hepburn and Howard Hughes, Colin can judge that the relationship between the two is only at the initial stage.

Although, Hughes never concealed his admiration for Katharine Hepburn, but Katharine Hepburn obviously still maintained a distance between herself and the other party.

This is a very assertive woman. In fact, the final relationship between her and Howard Hughes broke down because the other party interfered with the filming of the movie. Katharine Hepburn, who was furious, directly bought the contract back for $20. Switch to other companies.

Now, although Katharine Hepburn's love career has experienced twists and turns, she has not yet divorced her husband, so it is naturally impossible to agree to Howard Hughes' pursuit.

The sense of proportion in Katharine Hepburn's tone did not discourage Hughes too much. He himself is a person who likes challenges, whether it is the test flight of an airplane or the filming of the movie "Titanic".

In Howard Hughes' introduction, Colin also greeted Leslie Howard and Katharine Hepburn, the two leading actors of the movie.

"Mr. Leslie Howard, I was very impressed with your performance in the movie "Free Soul"."

Compared with Katharine Hepburn, Colin pays more attention to Leslie Howard, not only because he is the hero of "Titanic", but also because of the legendary life of the other party.

If memory serves, Leslie Howard of this period had become a spy.

What could be more dramatic than a British spy walking around Hollywood.

"Thank you."

Accepting Colin's admiration with a smile, Leslie Howard also echoed: "During this time in New York, the newspaper I read the most was Colin Looper's "Daily Courier". I have become a loyal reader of "Superman" and can't wait to see new comics every day."

Leslie Howard deserves to be a spy who can make his way in Hollywood and become a big star, and he is obviously very good at talking to people.

Of course, Colin also noticed that Leslie Howard's verbal proficiency, including the rise of the "Daily Courier", was able to express his views with eloquence. Obviously, the other party hadn't done this before. Do less work.

How about another actor, Colin might just take it as the other party's flattery of himself.

However, thinking of Leslie Howard's other identity, the look in Colin's eyes suddenly became a little clearer.

The other party took the initiative to talk to him, obviously he valued the relationship behind him, which is the professional quality that an intelligence worker should have.

Aware of Leslie Howard's purpose, Colin didn't say much, even if Leslie Howard's secret spy status was thrown away, his follow-up development and influence in Hollywood were equally good, so Colin was also happy to be with him. The other party establishes a relationship.

In this way, in a tacit understanding, Leslie Howard and Colin showed a harmonious conversation atmosphere.

On the other hand, it is not clear the deeper meaning behind this conversation. Howard Hughes just took Colin's initiative to communicate with Leslie Howard as an opportunity to create for himself. Hepburn communicated.

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"Until the ship sinks: 99 days!"

The next day, New Yorkers saw the numbers marked by Colin in huge letters on the front page of the Daily Courier.

As the most well-deserved largest newspaper in New York today, the "Daily Courier" has a huge influence.

Almost in just one day, the news that a giant ship would sink in New York Harbor spread throughout the streets and alleys of New York City.

At first, the public didn't believe it. After all, a good ship was about to sink because of some accident.

Moreover, Colin swears in the newspaper that he marked the time when the ship sank, which makes readers question it even more.

However, this question, accompanied by the appearance of Howard Hughes, became a bit hesitant.

A few years ago, the process of Howard Hughes filming "Hell's Angels" has already become a household name through newspaper renderings. Everyone knows that there is a guy in Hollywood who spends money like water, and even, the new movie invested by the other party not long ago "The Wounded Man" has just been released.

This movie, which was shot on the background of a real gangster story, also left a very deep impression on the audience watching the movie.

After all, the background of "Scarface" is not a fictional plot, but a real event in Chicago. Even the protagonist of the movie, Al Capone, was prosecuted and imprisoned for tax evasion only the previous year. Hughes actually launched a movie related to him in the second year. His boldness and fearlessness not only surprised the whole Hollywood, but even the audience.

The same movie "Scarface" is also the pioneering work of Hollywood crime genre. It takes the Prohibition era as the background, tells the struggle of interests between underground gangs, and renders the street violence of machine guns, which has influenced a large number of later generations. Similar works.

The name of Howard Hughes, and the giant ship in New York Harbor, made the whole report feel a little more real.

And the name of the Titanic was quickly revealed "inadvertently" by an actor on a certain ship.

Howard Hughes is filming a movie related to the Titanic. The giant ship in New York Harbor will be sunk in the sea after 99 days, just like the Titanic back then.

Undoubtedly, Colin's publicity in the newspapers has successfully attracted the attention of New Yorkers.

In addition, even the sales volume of the "Daily Courier" has further increased because of the topic of the giant wheel.

Even those people who didn't care much about the serialization of "Superman" bought newspapers one after another in order to learn about the news of the sinking ship.

During the Great Depression, entertainment was far less common than in later generations.

The economic recession has forced a lot of entertainment spending to be cut or stopped. Under such a premise, some entertainment methods that do not cost money have become the first choice of the people.Just like the flagpole challenge that Colin knew about in San Francisco before, it is just an ordinary event, but it can attract countless people to watch.

It's not how interesting the challenge is, it's purely because it's a kind of 'entertainment' that doesn't cost too much money to participate in.

There is no doubt that the sinking ship has also shown signs of developing in this direction.

With the countdown on the Daily Courier, huge crowds head to New York Harbor every day to witness the giant ship.

From the deck of the giant ship and some external structures, they can perceive the luxury of the giant ship.

Even, many people swear that they once saw the flickering lights in the ship and heard the sound of music at night, which means that someone held a dance on the ship.

And it is precisely because of all these things that more people questioned, will Howard Hughes really sink this valuable ship after the countdown of the "Daily Courier"?
The discussion about whether Howard Hughes will really sink the giant ship has become a topic of concern throughout New York, and even surpassed the lawsuit between Colin and the radio company for a while.

Even, for this reason, CBS Radio also opened a special program to seriously discuss the feasibility of the whole incident.

Of course, in the minds of most people, it is more or less unlikely that Howard Hughes would sink this luxury ship, especially when the "Daily Courier" released stills of the ship's interior, this Doubt became more apparent.

For this, Ke Lin didn't explain much, but just continued to count down day after day on the front page.

Of course, in addition to the report of the sinking of the big ship, he did not forget the serialization of comics.

After the imprint is upgraded to [Silver], the ability to unlock has the possibility of further upgrading, and Ke Lin will naturally not let it go.

In fact, while covering the big boat news, he also ran several new Superman stories in response to the newspaper's growing sales.

In addition to some old-fashioned plots of justice defeating evil, Colin also designed a new story line in it.

With the experience of the anti-world as the background, Colin designed a guy named Supergirl and called him into the pocket universe.

The setting of this pocket universe obviously refers to the existence of the anti-world. After the battle between the superstar and Dormammu, Colin has also noticed the anomaly of the anti-world, and designed it into the latest comic plot. In the background of this story, the pocket universe, as its name suggests, is a limited universe.

Different from the vast and limitless universe in people's impression, the world of the pocket universe has limits.

When Superman came to this universe, he found three Kryptonian criminals there. They ruled this universe and brutally killed people in this universe, almost destroying everyone in this universe.

Superman met the remaining humans in this world in the pocket universe, learned the behavior of this Kryptonian criminal, and also understood the purpose of Supergirl calling herself. In the end, Superman found the three Kryptonian criminals and fought them. Beat them one against three, eventually killing them with heat sight.

As for why Superman was able to kill them, Colin also explained in the comics, because the world where Superman lives is different from the pocket universe, so the ability he obtained by absorbing the sun is also more powerful than the three.

With the serialization of the Pocket Universe story, the content of the story has also become a superman murder incident that has been widely spread in the future.

In past comics, though, Superman often beat his opponents, or killed his enemies.

But whether it is Luthor or the prankster, such villains will reappear in various ways, and in the story of the pocket universe, Colin clearly expressed that Superman really sent the three Kryptonian criminals to Executed, and Superman also felt guilty for his actions.

This is one of the rare depictions of Superman killing his enemies.

Although, at this period, readers who saw the plot through the serial issue were not surprised, after all, it has been explained in the previous story that the crimes of the three Kryptonian criminals do not deserve sympathy.

Through the serialization of Pocket Universe, Ke Lin successfully unlocked the [Heat Sight] ability to the [Silver] level.

In addition, in the real world, he can also emit powerful high-temperature rays from his eyes.

Originally, Colin planned to take advantage of the victory and upgrade all the unlocked abilities through more serializations. However, the contact with the Scripps-Howard newspaper group made him have to postpone this plan.

As sales of the Daily Courier have grown, the Journal of the World has lost its place as New York's number one newspaper.

With the news that Scripps-Howard newspaper group sold the "World Journal", the circulation of the newspaper has further decreased. Today, the circulation of the newspaper is less than one-third of its peak period.

The Scripps-Howard newspaper group obviously noticed this too, so they couldn't wait to contact Colin again.

If you want to complete the subsequent transfer, sell "World Journal".

It can be seen from this that the financial situation within the Scripps-Howard newspaper group is not optimistic.

Although, today's "Daily Courier" no longer needs the weight of "World Journal".

However, as an established newspaper in New York, being able to incorporate it into its own newspaper office is also a way to increase its heritage.

In particular, "World Journal", as the largest newspaper in New York, can well fill in the lack of personnel of Ke Lin, so that it can make more drastic development of the newspaper, not only in New York, but also in other cities. .

Old John alone is not enough to support the development of the San Francisco newspaper. It just so happens that he can transfer the staff of the "World Journal" to maintain the business in San Francisco and deploy the staff of the "World Journal" to prevent these people from Bring him unnecessary trouble.

(End of this chapter)