Chapter 25: City Hunter and Sin City
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In the twentieth century, when Caesar went to Vegas to collect money, Fox began to initially promote "Groundhog Day" and "Alien".
Speculation about the plot of "Groundhog Day", and a big guess about what kind of creature the alien is.
When a company like Fox is involved in publicity, it's not comparable to a rookie like Caesar.
Newspapers, television, radio, and even college campus broadcasts are not spared, and onlookers can clearly understand how much Fox has a soft spot for science fiction after the success of Star Wars, and how much confidence he has in Caesar's script.
Not only did Caesar optimize the script from his previous life based on the widely recognized film reviews of the time, but he also drew a lot of sketches of the Alien comic book for the producer's reference.
The appearance of the sketch gave Fox a general idea of what the film should look like, which gave the producers a good idea.
When the head of the marketing department of Fox Company was interviewed by reporters, he swore that the unprecedented monster of Alien would definitely bring about an explosion at the box office.
This series of actions caused a chain reaction in Hollywood, first of all, Universal increased the publicity of "Jaws", which will be released in seven or eight years, and Warner also said that "Superman" is definitely worth the series.
And the two box office bombs in '79, "Mr. and Mrs. Kramer", which reflects reality, and "Star Trek", a sci-fi series that explores the future, are about to be launched.
At this time, Caesar would enter his room every day after school, the door was closed, and his family would occasionally hear Caesar singing loudly.
In May 1978, Caesar appeared at FFF's comic book company and came up with a synopsis of his work that had been in retreat for three months.
Jim Davis asked why he hadn't drawn it in three months, and Caesar said he was going to silence the skeptical voice forever.
Immediately afterward, Caesar approached the project manager in charge of liaison with NBC and quickly replied after saying what he requested.
On May 5, NBC announced that Prodigy Caesar would broadcast the comic creation process live three days later.
"At half past seven on the evening of May 9, Caesar will be with you." This slogan has been this slogan for three consecutive days, and all the viewers who watch NBC and some people who don't care much about NBC know this brainwashing advertising slogan.
According to later statistics, on the day of the first day, at 7:15 p.m., when the news was still broadcasting, the ratings of more than 80 TV stations under NBC had reached a record high of 6 points.
At the end of the news, when the countdown ad broke through 7 points, nearly 40 million people across the United States were ready to watch Caesar's creation live broadcast at the same time.
At the beginning of the show, it was very direct and crisp, without the host's interactive greetings with Caesar, or doing a small interview or anything.
Jumping from the first shot of the advertisement, the viewer sees Caesar sitting at his desk and smiling at the camera.
In the hairstyle lineup of the whole United States from the age of eight to eighty years old is the Elvis Presley, Caesar's roundness as a feature is simply the most unique aesthetic, even black people don't like this hairstyle, even athletes like to shave baldness for heat dissipation.
Dressed in a casual black hooded tracksuit, the little guy sat down there, and the parents of the whole country were in high spirits.
Let's not talk about prodigies or not prodigies, let's see how other people's children are raised!
I don't know at all that I have become a "child of someone else's family" for a painful generation.
Caesar simply greeted the camera.
"Hello everyone, this is Kaesa Lee's live comic book show. What I bring to you today is my latest work.,Some content is not suitable for children as old as me to watch.,Please parents consciously block their children's eyes when some pictures appear.。 Caesar opened his mouth without any stage fright.
"Without further ado, let's start painting the prologue now. Finally, a reminder again, good boys, don't read this comic. Caesar also deliberately sold the big incident of the previous life king Nima, and emphasized it. In fact, this kind of thing is emphasized more and more people look at it.
Caesar pulled out a stack of comic manuscript papers next to him, picked up a special dipping pen, and drew the cover first.
Caesar draws very quickly, and the trajectory of the tip of the pen on the paper even shows an afterimage, and the camera faithfully records the rustling sound of Caesar as he puts down the pen.
As the tip of the pen swiped at high speed, first there was a table against the window, the moonlight poured in from the window, a bottle of whiskey and half a glass of wine was placed on the table, next to a Colt python four-inch barrel .357 caliber black revolver, scattered around six bullets, a lipstick mixed between the bullets, the whole picture is a high-contrast black and white tone, the only color is the blood-like scarlet of the lipstick, and finally the title of the lower part of the picture------ "City-Hunter" is "City Hunter".
City Hunter: Vice City to be exact.
Kessar's trip to Vegas inspires him and reminds him of the Sin City movie and its original comics.
In his previous life, he liked "City Hunter" very much, although many people said that this comic book was colorful, in fact, not many people really went to see Han Yuliang's story here.
First of all, Caesar fictionalized a city based on New York------ "Carson City", just like in the movie, the Ka in Kasin-City on the city boundary board was deliberately crossed out, although it can still be barely recognized, but it looks like Sin-City with cold eyes.
Then he took out the character of "Dwight", one of the protagonists of the movie version, and replaced it with Han Yuliang, the protagonist of City Hunter.
Han Yuliang is set up as a Chinese orphan who was adopted by a veteran, joined the U.S. Army at a young age, fought the Vietnam War for ten years and came back alive. His English name is John Colt.
That's right, that's the last name that a Colt revolver would choose for the protagonist.
Then there is the assistant of the original comic Makimura, replaced by a handsome white guy Alex, after all, it is a comic released in the United States, and there will be protests from the Chinese in Yishui.
The bald sea monster of the original comics, Caesar is set as an extremely tall and strong black man, who is also a veteran of the Vietnam War.
The heroine Ah Xiang is set as Alex's half-sister, and her mother is Chinese.
However, this version of "Vice City" is based on the story of the movie.
So except for the protagonist Han Yuliang, these characters of "City Hunter" did not appear much.
This is a story with the deep participation of Han Yuliang, which belongs to Marvin (the invincible strong man in the original movie), Hardigan (the old cop played by Bruce Wiley), Nancy (the dancer starring Alba) and the Locke family (the villain father and son).
In this prologue, Caesar directly draws something similar to a trailer.
As Caesar finishes drawing each one, the staff of the TV station next to him will immediately take it away and process it.
In the one-hour program, Caesar didn't finish it, but he finished more than half of it.
At the end, Caesar said that he hoped the audience would watch the first comic trailer he had completed the next day, and the show ended in a strange silence in front of the audience and all the TV sets.
It's an offbeat style of painting, very realistic but exaggerated enough, and the only bright color that occasionally appears in the pure black and white picture often plays a stunning finishing touch.
For example, the lipstick, the embers of the muzzle, the red lips of a woman, the red eyes of a man, the wound of a bullet, etc., every time they appear, they are prominent and pleasing to the eye. However, the blood sprayed in the battle was white.
Ordinary viewers think so, and those who engage in art in front of the TV feel even more that kind of alternative charm.
It wasn't until many years later that the little girl in red in Spielberg's "Schindler's List" was also jokingly called by netizens as being influenced by "City Hunter".
After the show was over, the silence or discussion had nothing to do with Caesar.
He was in a hurry to produce the music part of the trailer in the TV studio, and Caesar's rock 'n' roll journey would begin with a bang.