The Aviator (2004) Movie Info
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | The Aviator (2004) |
| Director | Martin Scorsese |
| Screenplay Writer | John Logan |
| Based on Novel by | Based on Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham |
| Lead Actors | Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale |
| Cast | Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Ian Holm, Gwen Stefani, Jude Law |
| Genre | Biography, Drama |
| Release Date | December 25, 2004 (United States) |
| Duration | 2h 50m (170 minutes) |
| Budget | ~$110 million |
| Language | English |
| Country | United States, Germany |
| Box Office (Worldwide) | ~$213.7 million |
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Summary
A well directed look at the business ventures of visionary director and aviator Howard Hughes, which also explores his inner struggle complete with romance, bizarre phobias and personal shortcomings.
Review
If you know anything about Howard Hughes, the early to mid 20th Century filmmaking mogul and aviation pioneer, you will be fascinated by this biopic about the prime of his career. Even if you are entirely familiar with the man and his impact on both industries, it is definitely worth watching as Martin Scorcese’s direction and an impressive cast treat viewers to a terrific story. One about a man whose life was so unique that you’d swear at times that The Aviator is a work of fiction.
When we are first introduced to the eponymous character (DiCaprio), he is working on his film debut, the ’20s classic Hell’s Angels. The son of an Texas entrepreneur whose fortune he inherited at age 18, Hughes is a young perfectionist determined to make his mark on Hollywood whatever the cost. So eccentric that he waits months to shoot the final scene because he wants clouds (of which there are few in Southern California) in it, yet so compelling that he changes the lives of everyone he meets, we know early on that his career is going places.
The film tracks Hughes from the ’20s through the late ’40s, as his largesse grows faster than even he can keep up with. From his corporate battles as head of TWA (an airline he acquired on a whim) to his whirlwind romances with Katherine Hepburn (Blanchett) and Ava Gardner (Beckinsale) and grating obsessive compulsive disorders, to the horrifying near fatal crash of a plane he built from scratch, Scorcese and DiCaprio to a brilliant job of depicting this madman. Equal parts hero and tragic figure, Hughes is a man whose legend lives to this day.
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