The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.
Aviator, The The life of great American maverick Howard Hughes as recreated by director Martin Scorsese, writer John Logan and star Leonardo DiCaprio
The popular legacy of Howard Hughes is of an obsessive-compulsive who died in 1976 an eccentric recluse. There's truth in the abiding myth, of course, but it's often forgotten that Hughes was also a record-breaking pilot, an inspired industrialist and a player in golden age Hollywood. Scorsese's and Logan's film sets out to retool the man's story. It succeeds admirably, despite some inevitable superficiality.
A prologue introduces us to young Howard, being bathed by his mother and taught vocabulary. She teaches the word "quar...
The popular legacy of Howard Hughes is of an obsessive-compulsive who died in 1976 an eccentric recluse. There's truth in the abiding myth, of course, but it's often forgotten that Hughes was also a record-breaking pilot, an inspired industrialist and a player in golden age Hollywood. Scorsese's and Logan's film sets out to retool the man's story. It succeeds admirably, despite some inevitable superficiality.
A prologue introduces us to young Howard, being bathed by his mother and taught vocabulary. She teaches the word "quarantine" before telling him, "You're not safe". It's the film's abbreviation for the root of Hughes' notorious health anxieties. Cut to 1927 and th...
