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Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and director of the film Heck's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be an effective film producer and an air travel mogul while all at once expanding more unsteady because of severe obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

Ironically, as far as this reviewer is worried one of the most mixing, most memorable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (admittedly excellent) aerial fight at the beginning of the movie, or the plane accident in the future, or any of the social goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is barely averse in danger his life in other methods, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Bookmarks Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers had to focus both on previous accounts of Hughes' habits as well as the time period, given that when Hughes was suffering from the disorder, there was no psychological interpretation for what ailed him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Aviator was launched in the United States on December 25, 2004, to positive testimonials with doubters applauding Scorsese's direction, its cinematography and the efficiencies by DiCaprio and Blanchett.