Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and supervisor of the film Heck's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective film producer and an air travel mogul while concurrently expanding a lot more unsteady as a result of severe obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).
Paradoxically, regarding this reviewer is concerned the most mixing, many unforgettable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (undoubtedly outstanding) aerial fight at the beginning of the film, or the plane collision in the future, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.
Besides, Hughes is barely 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 competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Aviator 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 moment duration, given that when Hughes was struggling with the problem, there was no psychological definition of what ailed him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was released in the USA on December 25, 2004, to favorable reviews with movie critics praising Scorsese's instructions, its cinematography and Bookmarks the performances by DiCaprio and Blanchett.