Aviator

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Movie
German title Aviator
Original title The Aviator
Country of production United States , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 163 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Martin Scorsese
script John Logan
production Sandy Climan ,
Charles Evans Jr. ,
Graham King ,
Michael Mann
music Howard Shore ,
Johann Sebastian Bach
camera Robert Richardson
cut Thelma Schoonmaker
occupation
synchronization

Aviator ( English for aviator ) is a biopic about aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (1905-1976) from 2004 , directed by Martin Scorsese .

The American drama was filmed on locations in the United States, Japan and Germany , starring actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett .

action

The film begins with a scene in which the mother washes young Hughes. She gives the boy all sorts of warnings about health risks. This scene is taken up again at the very end of the film.

In the next scene, Hughes has become a young man. He gathered a large number of people to realize his first film project with them. It is about a film called Hell's Angels , a plane film in the First World War plays. He had a large number of double-decker aircraft procured for the filming . Hughes is not afraid to invest large sums of money again and again in order to be able to make his film. This becomes clearest when the film is finished. He notices that the public's interest has shifted from silent films to talkies . So he has the film shot again, this time as a sound film. The premiere of the film is very glamorous. The audience is enthusiastic and the film is a success.

He meets Katharine Hepburn and falls in love with the self-confident film star. The two become a couple. Hughes is shown in the company of beautiful Hollywood women over and over again throughout the film . In all of his affairs, dealing with Katharine Hepburn most gives the impression of a normal relationship. From now on, Hughes is shown as someone who is passionate about aviation and engineering . His addiction to success and records drives his involvement in the aviation industry. He has new types of aircraft developed, and it is mostly himself who conducts the test flights. Since his designers work successfully, he can not only set the record for the fastest flight; In 1938 he also succeeded in the fastest circumnavigation of the earth ever. After a dramatic but relatively mild plane crash, he is still being cared for by Katharine Hepburn. She praises him for the new speed record he has set. In the long run, however, Katharine Hepburn cannot come to terms with the peculiarities of the aviator; he in turn is seen again and again with other beauties during the mutual relationship. Hepburn's intellectual family does not accept Hughes and is condescending to him. Eventually Hepburn leaves him and falls in love with fellow actor Spencer Tracy .

The viewer is gradually introduced to the peculiarities of Hughes. There is an obsessional neurotic behavior in him , which shows, among other things, in an obsession to wash . In general, any setting Hughes is in suspects that there are dangers to his health. After Katharine Hepburn leaves, he seeks solace from other Hollywood beauties. Ava Gardner becomes a longtime companion . The relationship with her will never be as close as that with Katharine Hepburn. When asked if she would like to marry him, she will later answer that it would not be possible because he was too crazy. Hughes barely survived his next plane crash. He is traveling over Beverly Hills in a prototype of the Hughes XF-11 spy plane when an engine fails. He rushes into a residential area by plane, destroys several houses and sustains serious injuries.

The Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose".

From now on he has to struggle with health problems and there are competitors who try to make life difficult for him. He has succeeded in becoming the majority shareholder in the TWA airline . In the following years, TWA developed well and rose to second place in terms of sales - behind the market leader Pan Am . At Pan Am, this development triggers an alarm. Particularly in the emerging business with transatlantic flights, TWA does not want to take away any market share. Pan-Am boss Juan Trippe therefore brings his good relations with politics into play. He hires a senator to give Hughes an ultimatum. Hughes is supposed to sell his company. Otherwise he will have to justify himself to a Senate committee for having wasted millions of government funds on the development of aircraft. Hughes refuses to sell and is actually asked to justify himself to a Senate committee. At this point his life is already very confused; the main features of the hermit's life are emerging, to which he will retreat over the next twenty years. For the negotiation, however, he manages to get into shape again. He represents his cause well and succeeds in rebutting all allegations and leaving the committee room with his head held high. Pan Am's monopoly for Atlantic flights is overturned and TWA is also allowed to enter this business.

In addition, there has been another important aircraft project in recent years with the Hughes H-4 "Spruce Goose". Everyone believed that he would develop a device that was unfit to fly. However, he manages to get the monstrous plane into the air for some time. In 1947, at the age of 42, he successfully carried out a test flight himself. The film ends with a vision that the jet planes will rule aviation. He is overwhelmed by his compulsive behavior of having to repeat sentences and his advisors take him to an adjoining room so that the public does not see him like that.

Origin and production

Producer Charles Evans Jr. and director Michael Mann began developing the project in 1992 and commissioned television writer Dean Ollins and then John Fincher to write the script, based on various biographies. Finally, in 1999, all of the researched material was handed over to the new discovery John Logan and Leonardo DiCaprio , whose production company Appian Way Productions financed the film project , was hired to guarantee success . After business partners Evans and Mann broke up in an argument in 2001 and Mann retired as a director in early 2002, DiCaprio brought Martin Scorsese on board, whom he met in 2000 while filming Gangs of New York . At the time, both were planning a biographical film about the Macedonian Prince Alexander (the project was eventually taken over by Baz Luhrmann ), but the specialist magazine Variety reported in July 2002 that the Howard Hughes film was being pre-produced (the costumes alone cost 2 million US dollars ). In the spring of 2003, Jude Law , Gwen Stefani , John C. Reilly and Alec Baldwin were hired for the film. After eleven years of preparatory work, filming began in Toronto on July 7, 2003 and ended on November 17, 2003 in Los Angeles . With a production cost of $ 110 million, Aviator grossed about $ 213 million worldwide.

The film premiered on December 14, 2004 in New York and was distributed by Miramax . The film opened in theaters in Germany on January 20, 2005. It was first seen on German free TV on March 21, 2008 on ProSieben .

synchronization

The German dubbing was done at FFS Film- und Fernseh-Synchron , Munich and Berlin . The dialogue book was written by Clemens Frohmann and Klaus Bickert , the dubbing was directed by Clemens Frohmann.

role actor German voice actor
Howard Hughes Leonardo DiCaprio Gerrit Schmidt-Foss
Errol Flynn Jude Law Florian Halm
Katharine Hepburn Cate Blanchett Elisabeth Günther
Ava Gardner Kate Beckinsale Marie Bierstedt
Noah Dietrich John C. Reilly Detlef Bierstedt
Juan Trippe Alec Baldwin K. Dieter Klebsch
Senator Ralph Owen Brewster Alan Alda Bodo Wolf
Dr. Hepburn Kenneth Welsh Ernst Meincke
Professor Fitz Ian Holm Mogens von Gadow
Faith Domergue Kelli Garner Maria Koschny
Glenn Odekirk Matt Ross Viktor Neumann
Jack Frye Danny Huston Leon Boden
Johnny Meyer Adam Scott Daniel Fehlow
Louis B. Mayer Stanley DeSantis Roland Hemmo
Ludlow JC MacKenzie Peter Flechtner
Mrs. Hepburn Frances Conroy Regine Albrecht
Robert Gross Brent Spiner Uwe Karpa
Roland Sweet Willem Dafoe Pure beauty

music

The background music for some flight scenes with Howard Hughes is an orchestration of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565) by Johann Sebastian Bach, originally written for organ .

Reviews

The reviews are quite mixed, writes Jürgen Armbruster of Filmstarts : “Despite minimal flaws, 'Aviator', Scorsese's deep bow to the life of the eccentric and billionaire Howard Hughes, thanks to fantastic production values ​​and the strong leading actor Leonardo DiCaprio […] can be all Convincing lines. ”He awards four out of five possible stars.

Florian Kerntopf at Critic.de says: “The director primarily proves his talent in the detailed reproduction of the epoch in which Aviator is set. The costumes and music of the thirties and forties, the décor, such as the equipment of the nightclubs, are faithfully highlighted in their changing times. The work of the cameraman Robert Richardson […] is also excellent. He knows how to illustrate the story in an original way. "

When Filmspiegel Flemming shock 'Aviator', despite its run length little long-winded writing, but he lacks - and this surprised at just a little Scorsese - long stretches of emotional, supporting core. The adventure of the grumpy main character does not become that of the audience. In fact, 'Aviator' develops an impressively elegant casualness. "

Awards

literature

  • Michael Althen : Aviator by Martin Scorsese. In: Claudius Seidl (Ed.): Michael Althen. Honey i'm in the cinema! Texts about films, actors and actresses. Karl Blessing, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-89667-535-4 , pp. 34-38.
  • Stephan Zöller : The subject of "self-alienation" in the feature film. In: Thomas Bohrmann, Werner Veith, Stephan Zöller (Eds.): Handbuch Theologie und Popular Film. Volume 1. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-72963-7 , pp. 313-326.
  • Dana Poppenberg / Gerhard Poppenberg: Martin Scorsese. Introduction to his films and film aesthetics. Paderborn 2018. pp. 167–179.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the Aviator . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2005 (PDF; test number: 101 166 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Aviator . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Boxofficemojo.com box office results , accessed on September 7, 2014.
  4. ↑ IMDbPro and OFDb.de .
  5. ↑ Kino.de and OFDb.de .
  6. ↑ Aviator in the German synchronous file ; Retrieved December 16, 2007.
  7. ^ Film review at filmstarts.de, accessed on September 7, 2014.
  8. ↑ Florian Kerntopf: film review at critic.de, accessed on September 7, 2014.
  9. ↑ Flemming Schock: film review at filmspiegel.de, accessed on September 7, 2014.