The Aviator [WS] [2 Discs]

Director: Martin Scorsese, Sandy Climan

Overview

Reteaming the director and star of Gangs of New York, Martin Scorcese's The Aviator stars Leonardo DiCaprio as legendary millionaire Howard Hughes. Focusing on the early part of Hughes' adult life, the film chronicles how he built his fortune, beginning as the proprietor of his late father's tool company, then as a Hollywood producer and the owner of RKO studios, and later as an aviation mogul. Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, and Kate Beckinsale also star.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/10/2009
UPC:	0085393893927
Original Release:	2004
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:50:00
Sales rank:	3,529

Special Features

Closed Caption;Commentary by Martin Scorsese; Languages: English & Fran?ais (dubbed in Quebec); Subtitles: English, Fran?ais & Espa?ol; Additional scene; Get into the cockpit with fabulous documentaries on Howard Hughes and the filmmakers at work: Making The Aviator; The Role of Howard Hughes in Aviation History; Modern Marvels: Howard Hughes, a History Channel Documentary; The Affliction of Howard Hughes: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; The Visual Effects of The Aviator; Constructing The Aviator; Costuming and Scoring The Aviator; The Aviator and the Age of Glamour; An Evening With Leonardo DiCaprio and Alan Alda

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Leonardo DiCaprio	Howard Hughes
Cate Blanchett	Katharine Hepburn
Kate Beckinsale	Ava Gardner
John C. Reilly	Noah Dietrich
Alec Baldwin	Juan Trippe
Ian Holm	Professor Fitz
Alan Alda	Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster
Danny Huston	Jack Frye
Gwen Stefani	Jean Harlow
Jude Law	Errol Flynn
Adam Scott	Johnny Meyer
Matt Ross	Glenn Odekirk
Kelli Garner	Faith Domergue
Frances Conroy	Mrs. Hepburn
Brent Spiner	Robert Gross
Edward Herrmann	Joseph Breen
Willem Dafoe	Roland Sweet
Amy Sloan	Allene Hughes
Nellie Sciutto	Nadine Henley
Stanley DeSantis	Louis B. Mayer
Kenneth Welsh	Actor
J.C. MacKenzie	Ludlow
Jacob Davich	Howard Hughes - 9 Years Old
Sam Hennings	Frank
Joe Chrest	Hell's Angels Director of Photography
Rufus Wainwright	Cocoanut Grove Vocalist #1
Harry Standjofski	Crony of Louis B. Mayer
Vince Giordano	Cocoanut Grove Band Member
Josie Maran	Cigarette Girl
Justin Shilton	Hell's Angels Pilot
Arthur Holden	Radio Announcer
James McNamara	Voices
Loudon Wainwright III	Actor
Sebastian Tillinger	Actor
Vincent Laresca	Jorge
Chris Ufland	Actor
Kenneth Walsh	Dr. Hepburn
Howard Shore	Composer

Technical Credits

John Logan

Leonardo DiCaprio	Executive Producer,Producer
Michael Mann	Producer
Martin Scorsese	Executive Producer
Bob Weinstein	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer,Producer
Rob Legato	Second Unit Director
Petur Hliddal	Sound Mixer,Sound/Sound Designer
Sandy Climan	Producer
Graham King	Producer
Charles Evans Jr.	Producer
John Logan	Screenwriter
Tom Fleischman	Sound Mixer
R. Bruce Steinheimer	Special Effects
Chris Brigham	Producer,Executive Producer
Rick Yorn	Producer,Executive Producer
Rick Schwartz	Producer,Executive Producer
Colin Cotter	Producer,Executive Producer
Sanford R. Climan	Producer
Victor Abbene	Special Effects
David Boulton	Sound Effects
Travis Callahan	Sound Effects
Kam Chancellor	Sound Effects
Laura Civiello	Sound Effects
Marko A. Costanzo	Sound Effects
Matthias Deyle	Producer
Dan Maag	Producer
Aslan Nadery	Producer
Joseph Reidy	Producer
Volker Schauz	Producer
Philip Schulz-Deyle	Producer
Lucie Robitaille	Casting
Ellen Lewis	Casting
Charles Evans	Producer

Scene Index

Side #1 -- The Movie - Widescreen
1. Young Howard [2:18]
2. "Welcome to Hollywood," Hell's Angels Year One [8:15]
3. Hell's Angels Year Two [6:58]
4. Hell's Angels Year Three [4:04]
5. "Howard Hughes' $4 Million Epic" [5:04]
6. "Follow-Through Is Everything in Golf, Just Like Life" [3:38]
7. TWA... "Tiger by the Tail" [2:18]
8. "I'm Sure You Know Errol" [4:31]
9. Teaching Kate to Fly [4:55]
10. H-1 Racer, Breaking the World Speed Record [5:20]
11. Letting Kate In [5:12]
12. Around the World in Four Days [1:31]
13. "Don't Worry About It Howard, She's Just Working the Room" [3:43]
14. Visiting the Hepburn Estate [5:30]
15. MPAA Outlaws Mammaries [4:43]
16. Selling The Hercules [1:07]
17. "There's Too Much Howard Hughes in Howard Hughes" [3:18]
18. The Constellation [3:21]
19. "We're Too Alike, You and I" [5:13]
20. Faith Domergue [1:44]
21. "Kill the Story," Burying the Hepburn-Tracy Scandal [6:45]
22. Ava Gardner [3:02]
23. "Show Me All the Blueprints, Show Me All the Blueprints" [2:57]
24. XP-11, Inaugural Flight and Crash [5:32]
25. Flowers From Juan Trippe [6:27]
26. Government Investigation [4:24]
27. Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-I-N-E [11:10]
28. The Germ-Free Zone [13:57]
29. Brewster Senate Hearings [4:36]
30. The Flying Boat [7:54]
31. "The Way of the Future, the Way of the Future" [9:41]
32. End Credits [4:02]

Menu

Side #1 -- The Movie - Widescreen
Play Movie
Scene Selections
Special Features
View the Film With Commentary by Director Martin Scorsese, Editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and Producer Michael Mann: On
View the Film With Commentary by Director Martin Scorsese, Editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and Producer Michael Mann: Off
Languages
Spoken Languages: English 5.1
Spoken Languages: Français
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: Français
Subtitles: Español
Subtitles: Off
Side #2 -- Special Features
Deleted Scene: Howard Tells Ava About His Car Accident
A Life Without Limits: The Making of The Aviator
The Role of Howard Hughes in Aviation History
Modern Marvels: Howard Hughes, a History Channel Documentary
The Affliction of Howard Hughes: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCD Panel Discussion With Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese and Howard Hughes' Widow Terry Moore
An Evening With Leonardo DiCaprio and Alan Alda
The Visual Effects of The Aviator
Constructing The Aviator: The Work of Dante Ferretti
Costuming The Aviator: The Work of Sandy Powell
The Age of Glamour: The Hair and Makeup of The Aviator
Scoring The Aviator: The Work of Howard Shore
The Wainwright Family - Loudon, Rufus and Martha
The Aviator Soundtrack Spot
Still Gallery
Still Gallery

Editorial Reviews

With one of the 20th century’s most colorful characters as his subject, director Martin Scorsese has turned out an unusually compelling biography that, like many of its kind, generates tremendous interest while ignoring or distorting portions of the historical record. Scorsese’s portrait of maverick tycoon/filmmaker/aviator Howard Hughes (played convincingly by a seemingly miscast Leonardo DiCaprio) is accurate in a “big picture” sense, even to its unstated but strongly implied attribution of Hughes’s legendary eccentricities to an undiagnosed case of what we know today as obsessive-compulsive disorder. And it certainly presents thrilling re-creations of his aerial adventures, which included setting a new airspeed record in 1935, crashing an experimental spy plane in 1946, and getting his mammoth flying boat -- derisively nicknamed “the Spruce Goose” -- airborne in 1947. But the film plays fast and loose with many other aspects of Hughes’s amazing life; for example, it completely ignores his ill-fated first marriage, which was well underway during the three-year production of Hell’s Angels dramatized in Aviator’s first act. It also disregards his torrid affair with then-famous actress Billie Dove and overlooks his lengthy, close friendship with actor Cary Grant. Still, Scorsese does a magnificent job of depicting the wild-and-woolly Hollywood of the late silent and early sound years, vividly recreating the bacchanalian atmosphere of such famous nightspots as the Coconut Grove. Hughes’s lengthy and improbable romance with Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett in an Oscar-winning performance) gets expansive treatment, as does his on-again, off-again fling with glamorous Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale). Critics and viewers caught up in the Hollywood sections of the film were less impressed with its last hour, in which a clearly disturbed Hughes, his mental illness exacerbated by head injuries sustained in the 1946 crash, fights for both his sanity and his business. But the tycoon’s memorable showdown with Senator Owen Brewster (Alan Alda), the culmination of Senate hearings called to investigate mismanagement of government funds by Hughes Aircraft during World War II, is a bravura climax that showcases The Aviator’s exceptional writing, directing, acting, and editing. Nearly three hours in length, the film has a few tedious stretches, but Scorsese achieves the heights he's aiming for -- a truly soaring cinematic experience.