Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 119 Donald Duck
Hughes still needs time to arrange the itinerary to photograph the iceberg.

Especially since he is currently planning to establish a flying company.

After coming out of the film and television studio, Roy breathed a sigh of relief. He still likes to talk to ordinary people. Hughes' unique existence always makes him feel pressured, because you never know, what is the next thing in the other party's mind? What will the thought be.

Just like, he couldn't understand that the other party just wanted to take a shot of an iceberg.

Just the idea of ​​going to the sinking place of the giant ship.

While calming his emotions, Roy involuntarily cast his eyes on Colin beside him.

He didn't forget that the other party was the mastermind who made Hughes shoot the movie "Titanic".

At first, he thought that Colin asked himself and Howard Hughes just to establish a network, but he didn't expect that the other party would unexpectedly persuade the other party to make a movie, and it was a big production like Titanic .

As a Hollywood practitioner, it would be a lie to say that I am not envious.

Even if Disney focuses on areas such as animated films, it is also a money-burning business.

Even, in some ways, animated movies burn more money than real people.

Among Hollywood producers, Hughes has always been among the best.

After all, there are very few filmmakers who shoot movies for as little money as he does.

Hollywood knows that once Hughes invests in a film, there is no need to worry about funding.

"Congratulations, Colin, I can already foresee the reaction after the release of "Titanic". Once the movie is released, you will become a household name in Hollywood."

"Thank you."

Politely accepted the blessing from Roy.

But in fact, the purpose of Colin's trip has never been to become famous in Hollywood, he may enter the Hollywood Vanity Fair.But not now, but after the acquisition of Paramount.

The reason why he actively contacted Hughes was because of the connections behind him.

The Titanic was just a stepping stone to build a relationship between him and Hughes.

to accomplish its true purpose.

……

After leaving the Hughes Film and Television Studio, Colin's purpose for this trip is more than half accomplished.

However, he didn't leave Los Angeles just yet.

Instead, in accordance with Roy's request, he went to Walt Disney Studios, which was fine.

Although, the reason given by Roy is that Walt has some problems with the linkage animation between Superman and Mickey, and he needs to be determined by the author.

But both of them knew that this was just an excuse.

"Colin, long time no see."

At the studio, Colin met Walter, the same old man, with his hair combed back neatly and with an oily sheen.

In fact, this is also the standard attire for most men in this era, even Hughes, whom Colin saw before, combed his hair back and exposed his forehead.

In this regard, Colin respects, but does not abide by.

He didn't like the feeling that his hair was soaked in hair cream one by one.

"It's true that for a while, New York and Los Angeles were too far away."

Nodding his head, Walter felt the same way.

At the beginning, if he hadn't been too bored on the train back to Hollywood in New York, he wouldn't have been inspired to create Mickey.

"When will there be more convenient transportation, so that people will not be troubled by distance."

Thinking of his own experience, Walter couldn't help sighing.

"I think airplanes are a good option."

"airplane?"

Hearing Colin's words, Walt shook his head, not believing his conjecture.

During this period, the flight altitude of passenger planes was still limited to 7000 feet, which belonged to the troposphere, which caused the plane's flight to be extremely bumpy.It is precisely for this reason that the vast majority of Americans do not believe in the safety of airplanes. According to statistics, less than one percent of the people in the United States in this era have ever flown by airplane.

And it was Howard Hughes that Colin had seen before that really popularized the development of the American aviation industry.

He played a key role in the development of the American aviation industry, and was even called the "Father of Global Airlines" at one time.

However, because of Colin's Titanic, the "Airplane King" now turned his attention to the sea, preparing to take pictures of the iceberg that sank the giant ship. Perhaps the development of the US aviation industry will be delayed for a few years. .

……

The studio briefly talked about each other's situation.

The topic of Walt naturally led to the production of animation.

Since Mickey, Disney has been trying to create new animated characters.At present, the popularity of Disney is mainly concentrated on Mickey. Even Minnie and Pluto are in some ways an extension of the popularity of the Mickey family. One of them is defined as Mickey’s pet, and the other is his girlfriend.

In terms of stories, Walt has been creating new animated characters in the "Symphony of Confusion" series.

In these stories, many animations even simply come out of the animation image of Mickey at the beginning, and the content is a new animation scene.

This kind of creation, Disney has been going on for about three or four years.

But it has been unable to create an animated character comparable to Mickey's popularity.

At present, Disney still relies on Mickey to support most of the studio's funds. Everyone, including Roy, knows that this is impossible for a long time.

In "Confused Symphony", Disney has tried most of the animated characters, from non-human skeletons, to trees and many animal dwarves, but the audience does not seem to like it too much, they still Like Mickey.Roy also tried more than once to authorize other animated characters, but the results were not significant.

"Perhaps, you can try to start with the images of other animals."

Originally, Colin didn't want to participate in Disney's animation production. Anyway, even if he didn't say anything, after a few years, all of Disney's classic characters would appear.

However, since Walt took the initiative to express his troubles, how could he, as a 'friend', stand on the sidelines.

You can't blame me for this, it was you who spoke on your own initiative.

After muttering a sentence in his heart, Colin made a pondering expression on the surface, and after a moment of silence, he said in a tentative tone: "The image of Mickey comes from a mouse, so a chicken or a duck is a good choice."

"Chicken, duck?"

"Yes, especially the duck, don't you think its croaking sound is very suitable for creating an animated character?"

While speaking, Ke Lin made a look of inspiration, picked up the paintbrush in front of him and made a few difficult outlines, and a rough image of Donald Duck appeared on the drawing paper.

(End of this chapter)