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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics leader and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The movie represents his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes ended up being an effective movie manufacturer and an air travel mogul while simultaneously growing much more unsteady because of extreme obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

The brief yet much heralded trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was genuinely recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis developed by New Bargain Studios are on display at the Evergreen Aeronautics Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is barely averse at risking his life in various other means, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground a lot to the dismay of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The aviator sunglasses prescription with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers needed to focus both on previous accounts of Hughes' habits in addition to the time period, considered that when Hughes was struggling with the problem, there was no psychological meaning of what troubled him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was launched in the United States on December 25, 2004, to positive reviews with doubters applauding Scorsese's instructions, its cinematography and the performances by DiCaprio and Blanchett.