The Aviator (2004)

20101215:
The Aviator was a great movie and Leonardo DiCaprio gave a great performance.

With that being said, the plot is complex and might leave some viewers confused by the end.

Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio)

[20160711 Edit]

Instant Comments:*
1: It's interesting to watch a movie knowing you've seen it before, but not remember various portions of it.
1, 2: I didn't remember the very first scene with the quarantine.
1: I remembered the seen where he asks about what gives the waitress pleasure.

Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett)

2: He says the following:
Howard Hughes: Boy, you are just hitting on all six cylinders, aren't you? My God. Would you do me a favor and just? Would you just smile for me one time? Just once? [cigarette girl smiles] Yeah. Yeah. You see, you got a short upper lip. Makes for a much nicer smile.

Hughes smooth talks the cigarette girl (Josie Maran)

See, I wonder what gives a beautiful woman like you pleasure. I mean, say you're just standing there, right? And I just touch you. Just... Just like this. With my fingertips. Do you...? Do you like that? Do you? You see, I wanna learn what pleases you. I wanna learn everything about you. Would you let me do that? Would you give me that job?

Hughes hires Noah Dietrich (John C. Reilly)

1, 2: Hughes and Hepburn are playing golf and have the following exchange:
Howard Hughes: [doesn't hear what Kate says] Excuse me?
Katharine Hepburn: Well, if you're deaf, you must own up to it. Get a hearing aid, or see my father. He's an urologist, but it's all tied up inside the body, don't you find?
Howard Hughes: Mmm.


Katharine Hepburn: Me, I keep healthy. I take seven showers a day to keep clean, also because I'm so vulgarly referred to as "outdoors-y." Well, I'm not "outdoors-y," I'm athletic. I sweat! There it is, now we both know the sordid truth: I sweat, and you're deaf. Aren't we a fine pair of misfits?
[...]
Katharine Hepburn: So I suppose you're wooing me now?

Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale)

2: I love that entire conversation between Hepburn and Hughes.
2: Hepburn notices his discomfort (but I guess she doesn't entirely know why yet)
2: Hehe, the cellophane.
1: I love his facial expressions on the crash landing.
1: Oh man, the scene where his OCD causes him to wait for someone to open the door, that might be me, but bathrooms usually don't run out of paper.


1: I thought the scene where Howard runs his hands down Ava's dress was a scene in Catch Me If You Can.
2: "I sleep...in this room...in the dark. I have a place I can sleep. I have a chair. That's just beautiful. Oh, yeah. I like the desert. It's hot there in the desert, but it's clean. It's clean. I need to sleep. I should drink something first. I should have some... some milk. Wait a minute... what if that milk is sour? That milk is bad I shouldn't pick up the bottle with my right hand. And I shouldn't take the top off with my left...put it in my pocket. My left pocket."


1: The scene with all the bottles of piss is awesome.
2: "Does that look clean to you?" "Nothing's clean Howard, but we do our best, right?"

*1=The original instant comments. 2=Added comments during a screenshot viewing on 20160704.

Senator Ralph Owen Brewster (center, Alan Alda)


Watched once before (DVD)
Watched 20101215 (DVD)
The Aviator (2004) Martin Scorsese. 170 min.

Glenn Odekirk (Matt Ross)

Relevant Links:
The Aviator (IMDb.com)
Howard Hughes (I) (IMDb.com)
The Aviator (Wikipedia.org)

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