The Aviator (2004)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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The film has echoes of The Aviator because it’s a period piece inspired by a real person who becomes involved with a Hollywood actress and whose life spirals out of control.
Chalamet indulges Marty’s rough edges and vanities with the glee DiCaprio similarly displayed when he finally shook off coming-of-age parts to play one of Hollywood’s most storied bastards in The Aviator.
Though Scorsese chronicles enough of the earlier breakdowns to suggest the coming darkness, as well as creating eerie forebodings of it (some of them borrowed from "A Beautiful Mind," such as the appearance of characters, real to Hughes, that we realize might be fantasies).
(Compare his work here to Russell Crowe's in A Beautiful Mind.)
His illness isn’t converted into a suspenseful circus a la A Beautiful Mind, nor is his tunnel vision portrayed as an amusing idiosyncrasy.
But Hughes’s demons haunted him for decades before destroying him completely, and what we do see here is far more unsettling than typical movie OCD or schizophrenia (e.g., A Beautiful Mind ; As Good as It Gets).
His experiments have been hit and miss, from Leonardo DeCaprio’s The Aviator to Shutter Island and even The Last Temptation of Christ.
From character-based psychological thrillers ( Taxi Driver , Cape Fear ) to bombastic biopics of eccentric moguls ( The Aviator , The Wolf of Wall Street ) to Daniel-Day Lewis costume dramas ( Gangs of New York , The Age of Innocence ) to deeply meditative religious pieces ( Silence , The Last Temptation of Christ ), Scorsese is continually flexing his storytelling prowess.
So he tried a period drama with "The Age of Innocence;" a biopic with "The Aviator;" and an homage to cinema with "Hugo."
By making a film involving Hoffa, Scorsese revisits some of the same territory as he did in portraying Howard Hughes in The Aviator , considering a man who was once one of the most famous figures in the world but who is obscure just a few generations later.
But compared to his other mob dramas, The Irishman is a much larger project on the scale of era-spanning, historically weighty films like The Aviator .
Even more than Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” this is a film about the mechanisms that make flight possible.
Combining fiction and history, Miyazaki creates a romantic adventure that’s even more remarkable and unexpected than Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator.”
The closest contemporary equivalent I can think of would be Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator (a film that is getting on a decade old), and even then, Scorsese tended to dance around the particulars of engineering, whereas Miyazaki positively revels in them.
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Between the two men, there are echoes of the relationship between Howard Hughes and Noah Dietrich in Scorsese's " The Aviator " (2004).
Cinematographer Robert Richardson's (Oscar winner for "The Aviator" and "JFK") shots of pasta and pizza, and the Italian cafes and countryside kitchens where Liz partakes, will leave you desperate for a taste; the light filtering through the ashram bathes those scenes with an ethereal glow; the lush tropics of Bali through his lens turns up the heat, though honestly with Bardem around, you don't need it.
But she's helped immensely by the scenery, which is photographed so beautifully by cinematographer Robert Richardson ("The Aviator, " "Inglourious Basterds") that if it doesn't make you want to head to old Napoli -- or at least to Andrea's -- I'm not sure what will.
EAT, PRAY, LOVE Lusciously shot by Oscar winner Robert Richardson (The Aviator , JFK ), Eat Pray Love delivers a sensory overload as intense as Inception's but heavily calibrated to stir the hearts, loins and tear ducts of women for whom love handles and spiritual bankruptcy are of equally pressing concern.
Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet cloaks his themes about the capacity of the heart to overcome the brutalities of war in a tale about a woman trying to track down her World War I soldier fiance.
Like Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln , or Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator , Oldman captures the broadly iconic form of a famous figure while also letting the audience see him as a real human being, who occupied a real space in our world, once upon a time.
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He comes achingly close, specifically in the final moments when Hancock tries to do Scorsese’s ending to The Aviator, but it’s sidelined by an incredibly lame reveal.
Goofy to a fault, “Rango” is a collaboration of Industrial Light & Magic’s hip new team of animators, director Gore Verbinski (the inspired “Mousehunt” an three “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies), and screenwriter John Logan, who, with “Gladiator” and “The Aviator” to his credit, obviously has a deep affection for old movies.
The screenplay by John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator), from a story he concocted with Verbinski and James Ward Byrkit (who worked as a storyboard artist on Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy) is the prototypical postmodern mishmash of cinematic tropes, which means the film will be best appreciated by movie buffs who can spot all the sources and in-jokes and see how all the recycled pieces are carefully woven together into a completely unique fabric.
Depp isn’t one of the credited writers — The Aviator’s John Logan gets most of the pen plaudits — but Rango is Depp at his most involved, verbally nimble and out-there.
Screenwriter John Logan ("Gladiator," "The Aviator," "Sweeney Todd") knows a few things about construction.
The movie, scripted by John Logan (who wrote, among other things, Scorsese 's " The Aviator ," and that director's next film, the also kid-oriented " Hugo Cabret ") begins with Depp's initially nameless talking chameleon directing a play for inanimate objects in the safety of his own tanks.
John Logan (“The Last Samurai,” “The Aviator”) is the credited writer, and scores no points for coherence.