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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film shows the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel pioneer and director of the film Hell's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be an effective film producer and an aeronautics magnate while all at once growing a lot more unpredictable because of severe obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

Paradoxically, regarding this reviewer is worried one of the most mixing, the majority of remarkable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The aviator nation zip up isn't the (admittedly impressive) airborne battle at the beginning of the movie, or the aircraft collision later on, or any one of the interpersonal goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is hardly averse at risking his life in other means, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later on obtaining TWA off the ground a lot to the discouragement of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers had to concentrate both on previous accounts of Hughes' actions as well as the time period, given that when Hughes was experiencing the problem, there was no psychological meaning of what ailed him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Aviator was released in the USA on December 25, 2004, to favorable reviews with critics praising Scorsese's direction, its cinematography and the efficiencies by DiCaprio and Blanchett.