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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics pioneer and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be an effective movie producer and an air travel tycoon while at the same time growing much more unpredictable as a result of extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

Paradoxically, regarding this reviewer is concerned the most stirring, many memorable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (undoubtedly excellent) airborne fight at the beginning of the film, or the airplane accident later, or any one of the interpersonal goings-on.

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

The filmmakers needed to focus both on previous accounts of Hughes' behaviors as well as the time duration, given that when Hughes was dealing with the condition, there was no psychological definition of what ailed him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was released in the United States on December 25, 2004, to favorable reviews with critics applauding Scorsese's instructions, its cinematography and the efficiencies by DiCaprio and Blanchett.