The Aviator (2004 film)

Aviator is (English for pilots ) is a biopic about the aviation pioneer Howard Hughes ( 1905-1976 ) from 2004, directed by Martin Scorsese. The American film drama was filmed with actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett in the lead roles on location in the United States, Japan and Germany.

Action

Howard Hughes lived the last 18 to 20 years of his life very withdrawn; about his former physical or mental health is speculated to date.

The film by Scorsese does not show these retracted sick people, but it is rather a young, vigorous businessman and adventurer presented. The film begins with a scene in which the mother washes the young Hughes. She speaks the boys from opposite sorts of warnings regarding health hazards. This scene is taken at the very end of the movie again.

In the very next scene, Hughes has become a young man. It has a larger number of people gathered together to realize them with his first film project. It is about a film called Hell's Angels, a plane film, set during the First World War. For the filming, he can procure a large number of double-decker aircraft. Hughes is not afraid to repeatedly invest large sums in order to realize his film can. This is most evident when the film is completed. He notices that the public interest has shifted from the silent movies through to the talkies. So he makes the movie all over again turn, this time as a sound film. The premiere of the film turns out very glamorous. The audience is enthusiastic, the film is a success.

He learns Katharine Hepburn and falls in the self-confident movie star. The two become a couple. Hughes is throughout the film repeatedly shown in the company of beautiful Hollywood women. For all his affairs dealing with Katharine Hepburn makes most the impression of a normal relationship. Hughes will henceforth shown as someone who devotes itself with passion and dedication aviation and engineering. During his involvement in the aerospace industry, he is driven by his addiction to records and successes. It can develop new types of aircraft, and in most cases it is he himself who performs the test flights. Since its designers work successfully, he manages to set the record for the fastest flight. 1938 also succeeds also the fastest circumnavigation of all time. After a dramatic, but relatively unscathed extending plane crash it is still maintained by Katharine Hepburn. She praises him for the new speed record he has established. However, In the long run Katharine Hepburn can not adjust to the peculiarities of the flier; he in turn is repeatedly seen during the joint relationship with other beauties. Hepburn's intellectual family does not accept Hughes and treats him condescendingly. Finally Hepburn leaves him and falls in love with fellow actor Spencer Tracy.

The viewer is gradually introduced to the specifics of Hughes. There are a compulsive neurotic behavior, which shows, among other things in a washing compulsion with him. Generally cherishes Hughes in any environment in which it is located, the suspicion that there are risks to his health. After Katharine Hepburn is gone, he seeks solace with other Hollywood beauties. To a long-term companion he is Ava Gardner. The relationship with her will, however, never be as narrow as with Katharine Hepburn. When asked if she would marry him, she will reply later that it would not do, because he was too crazy. His next plane crash survived Hughes just barely. With a prototype of the Hughes XF -11 spy plane he is on Beverly Hills road when an engine fails. He races with the airplane in a residential area, destroys several houses and will incur severe injuries.

He is struggling with health problems and there is also also competitors who deliberately set out to hard to make his life. He has managed to become the majority shareholder in the airline TWA. In the following years, TWA well developed and increases in sales figures at number two on - behind the market leader Pan Am. With Pan Am, this development triggers an alarm. In particular, for the incipient business with transatlantic flights would be allowed to be removed from TWA market share. Pan Am boss Juan Trippe therefore brings his good relations with the policy into play. He hires a Senator, so that Hughes an ultimatum. Hughes to sell his company. Otherwise he would have to justify before a Senate committee for having wasted state millions of funds for the development of aircraft. Hughes refuses to sell and actually asked to justify themselves before a Senate committee. At this time, his life is already turned out very confused. There are already taking the basic features of the hermit life from, to which he will retire in the next twenty years. But for the negotiation succeeds to bring once more into shape. He builds his case well, and it manages to refute all allegations and to leave the committee room head held high. The monopoly on transatlantic flights Pan Ams is tilted and TWA may also go into this business.

Also there has been in recent years with the Hughes H-4 " Spruce Goose " a major plane project. From this thought all the world that doing a flight disabled device would be developed. However, he manages to bring the monstrous aircraft for some time in the air. In 1947, he leads at the age of 42 years a test flight itself successfully. The film ends with the fact that he has a vision of the jet engines will dominate the aviation industry. He is overwhelmed by his compulsive behavior to have to keep repeating phrases and his advisers put him into an adjoining room, so it does not see the public.

Formation

Producer Charles Evans Jr. and director Michael Mann began in 1992 with the development of the project and commissioned only television writer Dean Ollins, then John Fincher with the screenplay, based on various biographies. Finally gave in 1999 the rediscovery of John Logan the entire researched material and pledged as a guarantee of success Leonardo DiCaprio, whose production company " Appian Way " the film project funded. After the business partner Evans and husband had separated in 2001 and armed man had resigned as a director in early 2002, DiCaprio Martin Scorsese brought on board, whom he had met in 2000 during the filming of Gangs of New York. Both were planning at this time a biographical movie about the Macedonian prince Alexander (the project finally took Baz Luhrmann ), but the trade magazine Variety reported in July 2002 by a pre-production of the Howard Hughes film ( alone cost the costumes 2 million U.S. dollars ). In spring 2003, Jew Law, Gwen Stefani, John C. Reilly and Alec Baldwin were then committed for the film. After eleven years of preparatory work began filming in Toronto on 7 July 2003, they ended on 17 November 2003 in Los Angeles. With production costs of $ 110 million Aviator played worldwide about 213 million dollars.

Synchronization

The German synchronous processing originated in the FFS film and TV sync, Munich and Berlin. The dialog book written Clemens Frohman and Klaus Bickert, synchronous directed by Clemens Frohman.

Music

The music for the soundtrack of some flying scenes with Howard Hughes is an orchestration of the originally written for organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor ( BWV 565 ) by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Awards

  • British Academy Film Awards: Best Film, Best Supporting Actress ( Cate Blanchett ), Best Art Direction, Best Makeup
  • Guild of film editors: Best Editing in the category Drama
  • Guild of producers: Best Film
  • Guild of Actors: Best Supporting Actress ( Cate Blanchett )
  • Guild of sound engineer: Best Sound
  • Guild of trick technician: Best Visual Effects, Best additional effects, best miniatures models ( " The XF11 - fall " )
  • Golden Globe: Best Picture, Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Music
  • Journalists Association of the USA: Best Visual Effects
  • Critics Association of USA: Best Director, Best Music
  • Critics Association of Chicago: Best Cinematography, Best Music
  • Critics Association Dallas: Best Director
  • Critics Association of Kansas: Best Director, Best Supporting Actress ( Cate Blanchett )
  • Critics Association of Las Vegas: Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress ( Cate Blanchett ), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Editing
  • Critics Association of London: Best Director
  • Critics of Los Angeles: Best Art Direction
  • Critics Association of Ohio: Best Supporting Actress ( Cate Blanchett ), Best Cinematography
  • Critics Association of Phoenix: Best Film, Best Director, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design
  • Critics Association of San Diego: Best Art Direction
  • Critics Association of Seattle: Best Music
  • Critics Association of Washington, DC: Best Supporting Actress ( Cate Blanchett )
  • Online Critics Association of USA: Best Supporting Actress ( Cate Blanchett )
  • Online Critics Association of New York City: Best Director
  • Oscars: Best Supporting Actress ( Cate Blanchett ), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Editing
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