The Aviator

Somewhat mystical opening from Martin Scorsese, Jacob Davich as young Howard Hughes, Amy Sloan his mother, then he grows up to be Leonardo DiCaprio, making the movie Hell’s Angels (1930) and hiring finance man Dietrich (John C. Reilly), in the biopic The Aviator, 2004.

Now a Hollywood titan, zillionaire Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) lands a seaplane where Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett, her first scene) is shooting a movie which must be Sylvia Scarlett, (1935), and proposes a golf game, in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, 2004.

At L.A.’s Cocoanut Grove, aircraft and movie mogul Howard Hughes (Leonardo Di Caprio) with starlet Faith Domergue (Kelli Garner) and TWA exec Jack Frye (Danny Huston, Emma Campbell his wife) visited by rival PanAm boss Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, 2004.

Ian Holm is meteorologist Fitz, Matt Ross aircraft designer Odie, John C. Reilly accountant Dietrich and Leonardo DiCaprio is Howard Hughes, dead set on finding clouds as backdrop for his air-war movie, for the first big technical scene from director Martin Scorsese, in The Aviator, 2004.