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Mom, when I grow up,
I want to fly the fastest plane in the world,
Making the world’s most ambitious movie,
Become the richest person in the world.
--Howard Hughes
He was the richest man in the world and had relationships with 146 Hollywood actresses. He can assemble a radio at the age of 11 and fly a plane at the age of 14. He built the fastest airplane in the world and also made the world's most ambitious movie. He is a genius, but suffers from the pain of obsessive-compulsive disorder...
In 1927, Howard Hughes (Leonardo), who inherited the inheritance of his parents, marched into Hollywood, preparing to shoot an epic air force film "Hell's Angels." He budgeted 2 million U.S. dollars (over 90 years ago), used 87 planes, and his resources were astoundingly luxurious. The people around him ridicule him for "wasting resources". However, other people's disapproval will only make him more invested in the shooting plan.
Howard Hughes doesn't care how much it costs
The film was completed two years later, and the cost was as high as $4 million. Fortunately, the achievements of this film made Hughes famous in Hollywood.
The film is over, everyone applauds Hughes
However, he is not satisfied with making the world’s most ambitious film. He also wants to develop a passenger plane that can fly in the stratosphere at a height of 2,000 feet. One percent of Americans are willing to fly).
In order to realize his dream, Hughes spent 15 million U.S. dollars to buy West Air.
I even worked as a test pilot for the plane myself
In 1935, the test flight of the monoplane developed by the company was successful. This invention is of great significance in the history of aviation, and it has ushered in countless praise and attention for Hughes. But at the same time, his girlfriend gradually had a gap with him.
His girlfriend is worried that Hughes will be overexposed by the media and even affect the relationship between the two
During World War II, Hughes wanted to develop a large aircraft that could carry troops, jeeps, and even tanks, named Hercules. However, Hughes' good luck suddenly came to an end.
First, his girlfriend made up his mind to break up with him, and then his airline was involved in competition with rivals. The problem of film production and the problem of aircraft research and development also followed one after another, and the accumulated pressure pushed Hughes to extremes. He became sensitive and suspicious, and began to show the shadow of paranoia.
Hughes forced himself to stop, not repeating a sentence again and again
Misfortunes never come singly, the new plane failed the test flight, the military cancelled the order, and the Civil Aviation Commission issued a flight ban, but Hughes still wanted to complete his masterpiece. To this end, he even mortgaged the entire airline.
The flight test failed, and Hughes burned 70% of his body
The Senate delivered a speech that was very unfavorable to Hughes, describing him as a liar who made war fortune. The turbulent public opinion forced Hughes to shut himself in the movie screening room, relying on milk to survive. During the period, his obsessive-compulsive disorder became more serious.
In the mess on the ground,
The milk bottle in the corner is placed in a straight line,
And Hughes kept repeating another sentence
When the day of the hearing came, Hughes stood up again with the help of his second girlfriend, talked openly in front of the audience, and turned the situation around again.
In 1947, Hercules was completed, Hughes was still the first person to test drive, but this time he no longer had the opportunity to test flight exclusively.
Hercules took off successfully, and Hughes once again became the focus of the nation. At the celebration banquet, Hughes' obsessive-compulsive disorder attacked again. He saw in the bathroom mirror that he made a vow to his mother when he was a child...
When I grow up,
I want to fly the fastest plane in the world,
Making the world’s most ambitious movie,
Become the richest person in the world.
Back to the present, a bitter smile appeared on Hughes's face.
"Aviator" is a feature film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It was released in the United States on December 25, 2004. The film won the 77th Oscar for best actress, best photography, best art direction and best film editing four awards. With an investment of 110 million US dollars, the global box office totaled approximately 214 million US dollars, which is not very high.
The film tells the story of Howard Hughes, an entrepreneur, film director, and engineer who is not particularly well-known among Chinese audiences, but is well-known in the United States.
Howard Hughes is wealthy, engineered, obsessive-compulsive, demanding, and a very famous film director. These extremely irrelevant attributes are concentrated on one person, enough to see his life legendary.
Howard Hughes is the first billionaire in the United States (it is also reported that the first billionaire is Rockefeller). He has liked technology products since he was a child and can assemble radios at 11 o'clock. Later, Houston's first radio station was built. At the age of 14, he can already fly a plane. Unfortunately, his parents both passed away at the age of 17. He inherited the inheritance and began to pursue a film career. When everyone was not optimistic about "Hell's Angels", this film made him one of the top Hollywood producers with a box office of 8 million. Hughes was only 25 years old at the time.
In 1930, Howard Hughes founded his own aircraft company and successively produced monoplanes and Hercules. Hughes Airlines has played an important role in the history of the United States. The first synchronous communications satellite, weather satellite and moon landing spacecraft have all contributed. However, such a great man suffered from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, which became more serious in his later years. On April 5, 1976, he passed away on his private jet.
There is a lot of information that Stan Lee created the "Iron Man" superhero based on him.
Martin Scorsese has made many biographical films. In addition to this "The Aviator", there is also "The Wolf of Wall Street" starring Leonardo. Compared with this one, that work has a more style. Strong and exaggerated may easily leave a deeper impression on the audience, as Micro Theater has also said before.
The more noteworthy film technique is the color. The first and the back of the film used different color grading methods. For example, in the section describing Hughes's filming of "Hell Angels", a lot of colors were discarded, leaving only pink and cyan in the picture, thus giving people a kind of The visual sense of age.
In the middle section, the colors in the picture become richer, setting off a more diverse storyline paragraph. In the latter part, the red is added in a large part to express the pain of the inner world of the protagonist Howard Hughes being tortured by mental symptoms. It is a very careful treatment.
In addition, the film will directly insert the protagonist’s imagination during the normal narration. For example, the protagonist feels that he has seen some commercial spies, but in fact they are not. And this shooting method will better help the audience to experience the protagonist’s mental disorder from a subjective level, and thus better understand the character.
Of course, in Martin Scorsese's later "Bounded Island", the whole story is a paragraph of this kind of fusion of imagination and reality.
In addition to the aforementioned techniques, the film’s narrative is actually a bit obscure, so that after watching it, some viewers will sigh Leonardo’s performance or the great achievement of the prototype character Howard Hughes, but for the director to shoot The subject of the film will be a bit confusing.
It is true, but we can still see some clues from the movie.
Howard is a true genius with a level of thinking far above others, but in the childhood plot arranged by the director at the beginning, Hughes repeats the word "isolation" his mother told him, and he treats people other than himself The world is insecure. Therefore, he never let anyone enter his heart. The whole Hollywood that mocked him at the beginning, as well as the pretentious dining conversation of the Hepburn family, are enough to see the loneliness of this genius in the mediocre world.
There are only two kinds of people around him, either admire him and completely obey him and become his subordinates, or hate him and become his enemies. There are subordinates and enemies, but no friends. This is Howard Hughes from the beginning.
Of course, Hughes himself didn't feel he needed friends. For example, he would test the plane himself, because he didn't want to give "such a good opportunity to others". Only then, Hepburn entered his world. For this woman who can beat him in golf and can fly a plane once he teaches, Hughes has found a kind of conversation he can talk to. He is willing to share a bottle of milk with her, and even tell her the happiest thing about him.
In fact, Hepburn is indeed someone who can understand Hughes. When she heard the speed exceeding 352 miles, she was as excited as Hughes. When Hughes told him about his pain, Hepburn said that she could help him steer the helm.
In fact, if she can accompany him all his life, Hughes's illness may not be so serious. However, the two of them are still too alike after all, it is easy to hurt each other, and they are not together in the end. Hepburn found a more suitable partner, and although Hughes didn't care on the surface, he actually did, otherwise he would not still pay a huge amount of money in private to help Hepburn get rid of the scandal photo incident.
After Hepburn left, Hughes' obsessive-compulsive disorder became more and more serious, and later there was almost no way to go out. At this time, Eva, the heroine, entered his life and helped him.
Eva is a very interesting girl. She is different from Hepburn. She is not Hughes's kind (ie a genius), but she is not Hughes's subordinate or enemy. She is unwilling to be bought by expensive jewelry. , But willing to have dinner with Hughes. Faced with this unwilling to surrender, but not an enemy Eva, Hughes fell into a kind of confusion.
And what Ewa represents is an existence that is neither a subordinate nor an enemy. This kind of existence is actually an equal "friend." It was her who helped Hughes out of the crisis.
She is an ordinary person, not the same as Hughes like Hepburn, but she is an ordinary person who can understand him and is equal to him. So Hughes walked out of the room with her encouragement, attended the press conference, defeated his enemies, and successfully tested the flight.
But the difference in this test flight is that he doesn’t feel that he needs anyone’s help like he did before. The expressions in his eyes and his colleagues are actually asking them to share their glory. To some extent, he actually treats them as equals. friend".
Hughes can already make friends.
All of the above is exactly the reason why the director needs to use two heroines in the play, and the roles are almost equal.
The former Hepburn was a "genius of the same kind" by Hughes, but in the end there was no way to be together. Later, the Eva was an "ordinary person who could understand Hughes." She became Hughes as an "ordinary person." This "genius" friend. This is obviously the director's unique ingenuity.
It is a pity that at the end of the film, when Hughes repeatedly chanted "The Road to the Future", he still did not overcome OCD. Although he didn't want this in his consciousness, he subconsciously wanted to be like other people. "Isolation"-as his mother taught him when he was young.
This obsessive-compulsive disorder is his misfortune. But fortunately, the three dreams he talked about when he was a child-flying the world's fastest airplane, making the world's most ambitious movie, and becoming the richest man in the world, have all come true.
In such an inner dilemma, to achieve such an external ideal, his life is not only a symbolic achievement, but a life with great spiritual power. This may be Martin Scorsese, thinking It must be expressed through the movie.
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