Title: 18-year-old inheriting family property but bent on spending the family property, the loser inadvertently became the world's richest man in 20 years, how crazy is the world's biggest loser? Join today's story "Madman of the Century Howard Hughes,"
Looking at the present than the past, cultivating Wende, hello everyone, I am Xiaode. In the United States, there is a name that everyone knows, this person is the archetypal character of Iron Man, the famous entrepreneur, aviator, director, and aerospace engineer "Howard Hughes".
Howard has so many famous names, but each name is not false, he has spanned various industries in his life, only according to his own preferences, but in each industry has achieved great success, some people say that Howard's life is like an airplane of his own design, the resistance is minimal. But it is such a cattle man, but in his later years he got a serious strange disease, making him more miserable than anyone else, what is going on? Let's take a look at Howard's brilliant and tragic life.
"Hundreds of Millions of Family Properties"
In 1905, Howard Hughes was born in a wealthy family, his father is a famous oil tycoon in the United States, because Howard's father invented a new type of drilling machinery in his early years, which can penetrate hard rock formations, so this machine became an indispensable tool for oil exploitation at that time, and Howard's father also because of this technology, obtained patents from 13 countries in the United States and abroad, and established the "Hughes Tools Company" to produce this kind of drilling machine, so he accumulated a lot of wealth.
It is said that the tiger father has no dogs, Howard assembled a radio station at the age of 11, invented a power bike at the age of 12, assembled a motorcycle at the age of 13, and was able to fly an airplane at the age of 14, but Howard's happy life soon ushered in changes, at the age of 18, his father and mother died of illness, leaving a large inheritance, as the only heir, Howard became the top rich man in the United States at the age of 18, but because Howard was young and had a lot of wealth, Anyone had to splurge, so Howard set three life goals, to become the world's best golfer, the most famous filmmaker, the best pilot, yes, Howard had no interest in his father's oil industry, he only took a few months to find new management for the company, and then began to chase his life goals.
First of all, the first wish, to become a golfer, for which Howard practiced hard, but obviously Howard did not have any talent in this area, so just when Howard was excited to participate in the professional league, friends came to dissuade us, saying that we are a rich man who can't afford to lose this person, so Howard's golf dream has been shattered before it has begun. Since the first dream failed, Howard could only start the next one, and Howard may not have thought that movies and airplanes would become the symbol of his life and help him start a legendary life.
Money is naturally easy to do, just contacted the film industry Howard threw out 80,000 US dollars to start preparing his first film, you know this is a hundred years ago, when 80,000 US dollars can be described as a considerable amount of money, about equal to the current 24 million US dollars, and the staff who accompanied Howard to make the film, originally just thought that the playboy was here to spend money for fun, but did not expect Howard to be extra serious about this matter, not only every shot had to be personally asked, Will also quietly open the camera in the middle of the night to study its principles, but after all, interlaced like a mountain, Howard's first film after the shooting, immediately excited to take to their uncle, that is, the famous screenwriter "Robert Hughes" to watch, but the uncle laughed and said, "If this movie is released, the whole Hollywood will laugh at you", the angry Howard burned out the film, 80,000 US dollars in this way, although the money is gone, But Howard's more than a year of shooting experience is not in vain, he has a clear understanding of the film shooting, but also recognized his own problems, so Howard spent a lot of money to meet the genius director "Lewis Maxstone", and with Lewis in 2 years to make 3 movies, each is a classic, of which "Two Arabian Knights" also won the first Academy Award for Best Director.
Since it's not hard to make a movie, I'm here to make a movie that surpasses everyone, so on Howard's 21st birthday, he decided to make a blockbuster! But will things really go so smoothly? How big is the blockbuster in Howard's eyes? Dianbo focuses on not missing each wonderful video of Xiaode, let's take a look at the most spectacular film scene in history.
"Hell's Angel"
Howard's blockbuster film is the pilot-themed "Hell's Angels", and in a battle scene in the play alone, Howard recruited more than 1,700 extras and cost as much as $300,000. Since it is an air combat film, it must be indispensable to aircraft, so before the film began, Howard got 87 genuine fighter jets through various channels, in order to place these aircraft, it was a big wave of money to build an airfield for 400,000 US dollars, don't forget that it was 1928 at that time, what is the concept of 87 fighters at this time? You know, 4 years later, the 128 Incident occurred, and the entire Chinese government turned over boxes and cabinets to put together 25 planes to fight japan.
It can be said that the aircraft used by Howard to make a movie at that time was enough to arm the air forces of several countries, but is this enough? Far from enough, Howard's shooting details of the entire film have reached an almost perverted point, he asked the pilot to make various dangerous actions, and the result was that 3 pilots were directly killed, which also led to the later pilots of the crew who were unwilling to make any dangerous moves, and Howard, who had no way, could only fly the plane himself, and in an accident, Howard not only broke a plane, but also fell into a concussion.
Just before the release, the sound movie "Jazz Singer" sold well at the box office, and Howard, who had watched the film, came back and replaced the heroine with 19-year-old "Jane Harlow" and remade most of the shots. In this way, the filming of "Hell's Angel" took 3 years, used up 1,000 kilometers of film, and spent a total of 4 million US dollars before its release, equivalent to the current 1.2 billion US dollars!
Probably a lot of people will say. Isn't it crazy to make a movie for so much money? And it was the Time of the Great Depression, many people couldn't even eat a full meal, where there was money to go to the cinema, so many people were waiting to see Howard's jokes at the time, but when "Hell Angel" was released, it was indeed a different scene, all kinds of unprecedented scenes in the movie, so that everyone who watched the movie fell into madness, word of mouth rose rapidly, people did not even eat to see this movie, and finally "Hell Angel" sold 8 million US dollars at the box office, creating a miracle in the history of cinema, and this year, Howard had just turned 25.
It is reasonable to say that Howard has finally made a name for himself in the film industry, and the second dream has been fulfilled, and now staying in Hollywood to develop movies will definitely make a lot of money, but this eccentric big guy has suddenly disappeared, so where did this rich second generation go? You can put your ideas on the bullet screen and we will discuss them together.
"Pilot"
Howard disappeared two months later, was exposed, he had been using a forged certificate as a pilot in American Airlines during this time, the news came out that people thought Howard was crazy, a good movie future do not run to be a pilot with a monthly salary of $1,000, but only people familiar with Howard know that this is his third dream, but just when everyone is waiting for Howard to create a miracle, he bought a plane and ran to Europe to be happy, of course, as a qualified loser, Howard of course will not forget the loser, while playing at the same time spent $800,000 to buy the world's fifth largest yacht, there is also a huge bed on it, you can guess what it is for, so after a year of tossing, Howard seems to suddenly remember that it is time to do something serious, so he returned to the United States to buy a us main fighter P-12, and gathered a group of engineers to fully modify the P-12.
Howard then flew the plane to participate in the domestic flying competition, other than that, easily won the championship, but this also gave Howard the idea of driving the world's fastest aircraft. However, Howard has never had a plane in the world that can be called the fastest, so what should he do? Howard's method is also very simple, spend money to set up the Hughes Aircraft Company, gather the top aircraft designers, develop the world's fastest aircraft, to say that the power of money is really great, just over a year, Howard and engineers have developed a competitive aircraft, that is, "Hughes 1", this aircraft has a perfect streamline, because its beautiful shape is also known as silver bullets, driving this aircraft, Howard broke all the flight records at that time, the first flight was 352 miles per hour, When he completed the round-the-world flight in 3 days, when he returned to New York, the whole city held a grand celebration, and the government also awarded him the highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, but Howard was lazy to receive it, until Truman came to power.
And the success of the silver bullet also made Howard begin to yearn for the sky, throughout the 20th century his Hughes Aircraft Company, invented the first practical laser, the first lesson of synchronous satellites, and the first lunar probe, in 1966 the United States unmanned spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time, realizing the dream of all mankind, yes, this spaceship was also built by Hughes. In 2000, 40% of the world's active satellites were produced by Hughes, relying on these great achievements, in 1923 he inherited his father's $750,000, by 1946 has exceeded $1 billion, becoming the world's first rich man worth more than $10, and more exaggeratedly, by 1954, Howard's net worth reached $2.5 billion, equivalent to the current $85 billion.
In addition to being rich and talented, Howard also has a thing that makes everyone jealous, he is particularly handsome, the height is 1 meter 93, there is no doubt, this should be regarded as the world's earliest rich and handsome bar, such a person must be around the scandal, in that era, Howard is also very willing to spend money on women, he once had more than 80 girlfriends at the same time, all the actresses who were called names at the time, almost all have a leg with Howard, but there is a good saying, the heavens open a door for you will close a window, How beautiful the young Howard is, how miserable the old Howard is, in fact, the grief of his parents leaving prematurely has been lingering in Howard's heart, he has always relied on alcoholism and drug use to cheer up, which also led to the aging Howard suffering from severe mental obsessive-compulsive disorder, his skin became extremely sensitive, even wearing clothes will make him miserable, and since the 60s he shut himself at home, do not contact with anyone, like to urinate in milk bottles, cut hair and nails only once a year, Finally, in April 1976, Howard died on a private plane on his way to the hospital, and the legendary madman of the century finally could not escape the verdict of death.
Well, the madman Howard's life is actually over, and everyone thinks Howard is not an extremely eccentric person? Welcome to discuss with Xiaode in the comment area, and finally let's take a look at what Erha said.
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