Page 0EMOTIONAL MOTIVATION FOR THE PROTAGONIST: The introduction of the word “quarantine”. Howard's mother planted this idea of fear in young Howard's mind, which eventually leads to the succumb to his illness.
Page 3Introduction of the protagonist's “There is nothing I can't do” spirit and his manager of his whole life. The exchange between Howard and his manager reveals the entire background of the protagonist: his parents are dead, people don't approve how he spends his money, and he is fighting for respect from others.
Page 4Howard directs his big movie “Hell's Angels” and goes to a party at night, trying to borrow cameras from the Mayor. But instead, he is laughed upon on how he spends his money.
Page 8During the conversation between Howard and his press agent, we can see that not only Howard drink milk, but he drinks only unopened milk; and how badly he wants to succeed with the movie or he has to go back home. Then we get to see first hand how good Howard is at womanizing and quickly he get switch back to work mode.
Page 11Documentary talking about how much Howard has poured into his war epic movie and how he tries to solve all kinds of problems: making the planes to go faster and how he gets the idea of a fast monoplane by solving a problem with the movie plane.
Page 13Speaking with the professor at UCLA on finding the cumulonimbus formations. Already Howard starts to display symptoms of repeating phrases.
Page 14Howard is impatient about not being able to find clouds. And in order to get his company off his back, he sets up a new company in Hollywood: Hugh's Aircraft.
Page 16Finally, the professor finds clouds in Oakland so that they can shoot the picture. Howard is fearless in the sky. (OPPORTUNITY: BEING ABLE TO FINISH THE MOVIE LEADS HOWARD INTO HIS NEW SITUATION OF RESHOOT IT FOR SOUND AND WOOING CATHERINE HEPBURN)
Page 17Hell's Angels finally wraps up. But Howard already wants to reshoot the picture with sound. He always has the eyes for the future.
Page 19Howard is so frustrated with editing his new picture. On top of that, his manager tells him that he is out of money. Howard takes a huge risk mortgaging his only company and his illness has already started to appear.
Page 22 The nervous premier of Hell's Angels for Howard. Overwhelmingly positive reaction from the critics.
Page 27 Howard flies to woo Kate Hepburn and plays golf with her. She is a very talkative and energetic individual. She appears to be able to see everything very clearly – she is able to see the Darwin side of the male urges for sex. And from her talk, we can see that they are all different from most people: she is athletic and Howard is deaf. (NEW SITUATION WITH KATE)
Page 30 Howard works on his fastest monoplane idea that he got from making the movie; and he also talks about the future of airline with Jack from TWA. Because he doesn't want others to stand in the way of his vision, he decides right on the spot to buy all the shares of TWA at 8 dollars a share. (NEW SITUATION WITH AVIATION)
Page 33Howard and Kate go to a party together. They meet the press agent and the rude Jude Law, who makes Howard very uncomfortable. They gladly leave the party.
Page 37 Howard and Kate go flying. In their divine private little space, Howard connects with Kate by teaching her how to fly. He even shares his milk with Kate, which is a major breakthrough for Howard. (CHANGE OF PLAN WITH KATE)
Page 42 Howard feels his monoplane the same way he feels Kate. It's ready for test fly. Howard tests the baby himself, he breaks the record. But hard land on the beet field. (CHANGE OF PLAN WITH AVIATION)
Page 47Howard and Kate connect after his minor injury. Howard shares his joy with Kate, but Kate has ambivalent feelings about being famous. For some reason, Howard starts to confess to Kate about his predictions about his illness, but Kate comforts him by reassuring him that she will take the wheel. (PROGRESS WITH KATE)
Page 53Documentary about how Howard gets famous as an aviator, which makes Juan at Pam Am unhappy, especially when he learns that Howard has bought TWA while traveling around the world. (PROGRESS WITH AVIATION)
Page 54Howard and Kate go to the celebration party, where Kate and the Mayor mingle nicely, which makes Howard nervous. But a mysterious girl Katie comes by and puts Howard at ease, unsuccessfully. (ISSUE WITH KATE)
Page 56Howard retreats to the restroom but is harassed by a stranger who wants him to hand him a tower. (HOWARD'S SYMPTOMS WORSEN)
Page 58Howard goes home with Kate to meet her parents, who are rich people who don't care about aviation and don't get along with Howard. Howard is upset and retreats. (ISSUE WITH KATE)
Page 63Howard makes his pornography movie and designs the Hercules at the same time. He also designs the female star's bar to get more production value out of her breasts. (PROGRESS WITH MOVIE AND AVIATION)
Page 65Howard confronts the Movie Rating Board about the porno issue by asking the professor to do an evaluation for him. (PROGRESS WITH MOVIE)
Page 68Gossip magazines report how Howard dates a different star every night and how he bribes the army people with money and sex so that they will fund the project of Hercules. (ISSUE WITH KATE; PROGRESS WITH AVIATION)
Page 69Howard and Kate have a huge fight over his playboy behavior. Howard doesn't understand how Kate can get so angry if she understands Darwin.But their fight is interrupted by a call about the trouble on Hercules.
Page 71When Kate is at the most vulnerable state, she meets someone new.
Page 72 Howard shows Jack at TWA his spy plane prototype and Jack shows him the new plane that can travel around the world nonstop. They make the deal but we can see that Howard is already very uncomfortable at the tiny dirt on other people's suit. (POINT OF NO RETURN WITH TWA AND HIS ILLNESS)
Page 75Kate breaks up with Howard, which makes him pissed off and devastated. He burns every single piece of clothing he owns. (EMOTIONAL POINT OF NO RETURN WITH KATE AND HIS ILLNESS)
Page 80Howard interviews a pretty girl of only 15 years old. (HOWARD'S EMOTIONAL POINT OF NO RETURN: HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN LOVE ANYMORE.)
Page 83Howard dances with his girl and put her to school. They meet Juan at Pam Am and Howard reveals his global strategy just to feel good. (RISE OF THE PHYSICAL ANTAGONIST)
Page 87Howard breaks down again and retreats to the bathroom. He washes his hands until blood comes out. He even washed his shirt. When he runs out of towels, he doesn't dare to turn the doorknob and couldn't get out of the restroom until someone else comes in. (RISE OF THE INTERNAL ANTAGONIST)
Page 89Howard decides to have a street fight with Juan at Pam Am.
Page 90Howard buys all the embarrassing photos of Kate and her lover.
Page 92Juan and the senator conspire to fight against Howard.
Page 93Howard and the mysterious girl Ava spend time together. Howard just needs to talk to someone, even about his work. Howard tries to buy Ava with diamonds, unsuccessfully. And his employee girl tries to run them over with a car, which makes a huge scene.
Page 95The law the senator tries to pass will kill TWA and let Pam Am be the monopoly over international travel. Howard has to deal with the problem of bribing senators, designing logos of TWA, editing movies to be approved and also the engineering of the Hercules . (ENGAGING WITH THE PHYSICAL ANTAGONIST)
Page 98Howard looks at an old man, sweeping floor, has a vision of his future illness. He starts to repeat himself involuntarily; the illness starts to take hold.
Page 101Test fly his spy plane. Terrible accident.
Page 108Howard almost dies and suffers an incredible injury. And hits just keep on coming: Hercules project canceled by the air force, but Howard insists on continue building the plane; TWA has been grounded because of an accident.
Page 112 Hercules is being transported; and they discuss the solution of TWA grounded: Howard has to mortgage the TWA.
Page 114Ava accuses Howard for bugging her.
Page 116FBI searches Howard's home, which is a nightmare for him.
Page 117Howard meets the senator, who threatens him with public hearings if he doesn't sell TWA.
Page 124Howard collapses, gets naked in the movie room and doesn't come out for a really long time. (EVERYTHING IS LOST)
Page 126Kate comes to thank Howard for buying the pictures of her and her lovers. But he couldn't let her in.
Page 132 Howard tells with Juan through the door that no matter what happens, he is not going to sell TWA.
Page 138Howard finally comes out of the door and goes home. Ava comes to see Howard and prepares him for the hearing by the senator.
Page 142Howard goes to the hearing and confronts the senator. It was a triumph. (CLIMAX WITH THE TWA)
Page 151Test fly Hercules. It was a success. (CLIMAX WITH AVIATION)
Page 157Juan throws in the towers and admits defeat.
Page 160At the celebration of the success of the Hercules, Howard talks about how the jet technology is going to be the way of the future.
Page 162Howard gets sick and recollects his childhood dream shared with his mother.
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