In addition to spending our time stimulating the Northern Virginia ecomony by visiting several local malls, my lovely wife and I spend the weekend catching up on movies that we missed during the past year or more. I’ve already written about our Saturday night movie fest; and this afternoon was spent watching Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator
The Aviator
Like many Scorcese pictures, The Aviator is an epic. Hughes is presented in all his glory, and all his warts. I particlarly liked the confrontation between Hughes and Senator Owen Bruster, a boght-and-paid-for ally of Pan American Airlines President Juan Trippe. When was the last time you saw anyone dress down a Senator like that ? Another favorite was Cate Blanchett’s protrayal of one of my own favorite early Hollywood stars, Katherine Hepburn.
The movie ends with Hughes proving the world wrong and showing that the “Spruce Goose” can fly, but there are many inferences to the eccentricities and bizarre behavior that Hughes would become know for later in life.
On the whole, though, this was a great movie. Pick it up when you have a chance.
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