Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 359 Re-employment
"Ms. Louise Walton, are you sure these are the words of Mr. Colin Luper?"

In the conference room of the Fox Film Company, Louise's remarks unsurprisingly caused an uproar among the people present.

Including the company's original high-level executives also had expressions of disbelief. Although they had expected that Colin might fire some employees in order to save money, they did not expect that the other party would directly fire all the employees of the Fox Film Company. .

You know, because of the impact of the Great Depression, Fox's financial report directly changed from a profit of 1000 million in the previous year to a loss of 400 million. In order to fill this deficit, the studio directly laid off more than 20% of its employees, and IOUs are directly sent to employees on the grounds that they cannot pay wages.

The salary figures of the eight major factories have been directly cut by two-thirds, and all signs have proved that Hollywood is facing an unprecedented winter at this moment.

Even, not so long ago, "Variety Show" lamented in a report: "When will the film industry regain the good dreams of the silent film era?"

Fox employees don't know when the film industry will be able to revisit the dream, but what Louise announced at the moment is undoubtedly a complete nightmare for them.

Colin Luper, the newspaper tycoon who came all the way from New York, is more cold-blooded than imagined.

"There is no doubt about it."

Seeing the performance of the Fox employees in the conference room, Louise nodded calmly and replied.

Hearing Louise's answer, the expression on the face of the man in charge of Fox became a little paler. If everything is true, then not only the large number of employees of the company, but also him Became a member of the army of the unemployed.

"..."

In this way, the noisy conference room was silent for a long time, until the excitement of the crowd gradually quieted down, and then Louise opened his mouth to tell the second half of what Colin explained.

"Yes, that's right. According to Mr. Colin Luper's request, all Fox Films employees will be fired from now on. Next, you may choose to pack up your belongings and leave the company, or..."

Following the turning point in Louise's words, the lawyer behind her immediately took out the prepared contract from her purse.

"Sign this new employment contract and become a new employee of the company."

As he spoke, Louis turned his head and nodded to the lawyer beside him, who immediately handed over the contract to everyone in the conference room.

"This is……"

With a dazed face, he took over the contract distributed by the lawyer. In this ups and downs like a roller coaster, he managed to stabilize his emotions and flipped through the contract in his hand.

The new contract, signed by the lawyers, is almost identical to the previous employment contract at Fox Films, except for the salaries.

The salary of the Messenger Film Company in the new contract is almost one-third of that of the previous Fox Film Company. That is to say, once the employees of the original Fox Film Company sign this contract, they need to do the same work as before, but Just reaping less than one-third of the previous salary.

"The decision is in your hands, whether to go or stay is up to you to decide."

Looking at the hesitant people in front of him, Louise reminded in a calm tone.

This move of hers seems to be giving everyone in Fox the right to choose, but in fact it is reminding them that once they give up this contract, the only result is unemployment.

Glancing down at the contract in his hand, the person in charge gritted his teeth and made a decision. He picked up the pen in front of him and signed his name.

And this action of the person in charge triggered a chain effect like dominoes in an instant, and the rest of the people made a decision without any hesitation.

In the entire conference room, almost no one rejected this contract.

Not only that, but even within the entire Fox film company, no employee has made the decision to leave.

Everyone accepted the new conditions given by Colin, and became new employees of Messenger Films in the form of a salary cut.

In other words, just one morning after taking over the Fox Film Company, Colin successfully reduced the company's personnel costs by about two-thirds.

Although this is done in a form that is likely to be hung by street lights.

But it doesn't matter, with his ability, even if he hangs on the street lamp for a whole day, he won't hurt himself at all, let alone don't forget that this is the Great Depression and the cold winter of the film industry. It is very rare that Ke Lin is willing to continue to pay salaries for the employees who have been laid off and left under the layoffs of the factory.

After dealing with Fox, no, now it should be called the personnel issue of the Messenger Film Company, the first task Colin arranged was to deal with the issue of "Titanic" and release the animation that was originally shown on TV in cinemas. , in order to be able to attract those audiences who have changed their listening habits because of the radio, and re-entered the cinema.

Ke Lin has launched an active publicity and marketing in the movie theaters under the Messenger Film Company. He has specially opened up a brand new column on the "Messenger World", which publishes promotional advertisements of movies every day, as well as wonderful reviews from film critics. To a certain extent, it has stimulated the interest in watching movies of people who are trapped in a difficult life.

At the same time, the company's various movie theaters have reduced ticket prices by 50% or more, and only 10 or 15 cents to see a movie.

"Discount" is the "killer feature" of promotion that will never become obsolete in any era.

Secondly, a movie ticket is no longer just one movie, but two movies, or even more.

For the same money, you can watch an A-type movie and a B-type movie. Of course, in addition to the combination of this movie, Ke Lin cleverly implanted the animation of Superman into it, giving people a feeling of buying one and getting one free. .In addition, he divided the time of the movie theater into segments, and implemented different ticket prices for different movie viewing times.

Watch the movie for 7 cents until 10 p.m., as advertised by the Courier Welt.And for the rest of the night, just pay another 15 cents.

Of course, the change in the movie ticket price is only a small part of the publicity. In order to attract the audience to the movie theater to watch the movie, or the Superman animation, Ke Lin directly introduced the concept of "gift" into the movie. In the promotion of the movie, and played to the fullest.

For example, any lady who participates in the event can get a free dinner plate, or a lottery ticket for cash based on the seat number, or a silver tableware, etc.

The choice of these tableware is naturally the first choice for Superman's peripherals. At the same time, Colin had someone deliberately disassemble a whole set of silver tableware, and only one of them was presented for each movie.

Many housewives will regularly go to the cinema again and again in order to collect this set of precious tableware for free.

And Ke Lin's move indirectly caused a large number of women to enter the cinema, even if their purpose of entering was not just for the film.

Of course, Colin was not the only one who used various promotional methods. In fact, the connection between popcorn and movie theaters also occurred during the Great Depression.

With the transition of movies from silent movies to the sound era, watching movies in the cinema while chewing delicious popcorn will no longer have as much influence on the people around as in the era of silent movies, and popcorn has thus become one of the few More merchandise that can be licensed in movie theaters.

……

In the real world, Colin, who is split by the timeline, is trying to use the Superman animation shown in the cinema to gain more [faith].

On the other hand, in the purple dimension, Colin, who has mastered the time gem fragment ability, has not stopped his actions of continuing to split the timeline.

Through the power of the time gem fragments obtained from the Red Skull, the previous timeline was erased again, and a new Colin passed through the dimensional passage of Doctor Strange Dark and entered a new world.

"Another dead world?"

Because of the influence of the gem fragments, Colin, who was split from each timeline, retains the memory of other timelines. Looking at the gloomy and dead world in front of him, this idea subconsciously appeared in Colin's mind.

In the timeline of erasure, he has experienced such a world countless times.

Fortunately, the existence of [Super Brain Power] ensures that Colin can maintain his sanity as much as possible, otherwise, in the process of erasing countless times, he is likely to collapse directly like the original Red Skull.

Take a deep breath, this world is not only gloomy on the outside, even the air is filled with a permeating dead silence.

It was as if some kind of force had taken away all the vitality of this world, leaving only the silent silence and darkness.

Frowning, he used [Super Vision] to scan everything in front of him, and the dead silence and darkness like a thick fog enveloped every corner of this world. This familiar feeling reminded Colin of Strange's purple dimension inexplicably.

"So, this is another dimension?"

If it were at another time, Colin might have carefully explored the truth of the existence of this world. However, considering the situation in the purple world and his purpose of constantly erasing the time travel dimension channel, Colin immediately restrained his inner kindness and was planning to Let the other self of the purple dimension erase the timeline in front of him and start again.

Suddenly, in the gloomy world surrounded by layers of dead silence, there were some strange noises.

This sound is extremely subtle, and you may miss it if you don't pay attention carefully. However, under the effect of [Super Hearing], Colin still heard this sound clearly.

Immediately afterwards, from the seemingly endless darkness, something seemed to be born.

That's right, birth, because in Colin's original eyes, it should have been dead and nothing existed.

This is an extremely ugly existence. It looks somewhat similar to a dog, but it seems to have some kind of invisible ability. If it is not for the existence of [microscopic vision] and [super perspective], even Colin would not be able to see it. You have to see the existence of the other party in the dead silent world.

Under Colin's gaze, he saw this creature cautiously lurking in front of him, roaring silently as if trying to throw it down and bite.

It's a pretty deadly and menacing hunter, but it's a shame it picked the wrong target.

At the same time it fell forward, Colin stretched out his arm and hit the invisible vicious dog hard on the head.

Unexpectedly, the body of this vicious dog was harder than expected. Although Colin also restrained most of his strength, the power of this fist was enough to destroy a building, but it fell on the invisible vicious dog. On the head, but only let it make a wail.

And with the wailing of the vicious dog, more vicious dogs seemed to be born from the dead silence around them, and they also quietly appeared around Colin, completely surrounding him.

[Contact the distorted time node, collect a small amount of time fragments × 5]

However, compared to the invisible vicious dogs surrounding him, it was the contents of the text in front of him that surprised Colin even more.

Through a series of contacts and attempts, he has already clearly understood the reasons for these [time fragments].

Only under the influence of time gem fragments, [time fragments] will appear.

And since he was able to obtain [Time Fragment] from the invisible vicious dog before, it also means that there is an unknown time gem fragment in the world in front of him.

No, maybe not unknown.

Considering the number of remaining time gem fragments, Colin looked at the invisible vicious dogs around him and this dimensional space that was somewhat similar to Strange's purple dimension, and vaguely had some ideas.

"Colin Luper..."

And at the moment when the idea appeared in Colin's mind, the world that was originally shrouded in death seemed to have begun to change a little. The whispering sound continued to sound, and finally formed a huge roar.

"I didn't expect that you came here by yourself, in the dark dimension, in my world..."

Accompanied by this roar that resounded throughout the dimension, a flaming head appeared above the dimension. This head was extremely huge, just like the sun hanging in the sky, constantly emitting hot enough heat to melt steel. It watched For the ant-like Ke Lin in front of him, the flames on his head began to explode uncontrollably, making the surrounding air even hotter.

Whoops, whoops, whoops—

Around Colin, the vicious dogs showing their ugly appearance kept howling because of the high temperature of the flames, but the head didn't care about it.

(End of this chapter)