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Shore received a 2004 Golden Globe for
Best Original Score and a BFCA Award for Best Composer.
Adding authentic touches to the ambiance of The
Aviator is the music of Howard Shore. The score brings forth a feeling
of emotion that compliments Scorsese's storytelling perfectly. The
engaging score sparks a sense of adventure, discovery, sadness, loneliness
and hope, making for a beautiful and memorable listening experience.
Moviegoers will continue to be moved by Shore's orchestral magic long
after the credits have rolled.
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One of the most compelling figures of the
20th century, Howard Hughes was an influential innovator, savvy
industrialist, glamorous motion picture producer and quintessential
American risk-taker – but he thought of himself first and foremost
as an aviator.One of the most compelling figures of the 20th century,
Howard Hughes was an influential innovator, savvy industrialist,
glamorous motion picture producer and quintessential American risk-taker
– but he thought of himself first and foremost as an aviator.
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Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Howard Hughes, who,
just barely out his teens, makes the maverick decision to use his
inherited fortune from his father’s drill bit company to film
a World War I dogfight-themed epic, "Hell’s Angels."
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Adding authentic touches to the ambiance of The
Aviator is the music of Howard Shore. The score brings forth a feeling
of emotion that compliments Scorsese's storytelling perfectly. The
engaging score sparks a sense of adventure, discovery, sadness, loneliness
and hope, making for a beautiful and memorable listening experience.
Moviegoers will continue to be moved by Shore's orchestral magic long
after the credits have rolled.
Formally educated at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Shore
recorded with the group "Lighthouse" from 1969-1972 and
served as one of the original creators of Saturday Night Live where
he was Musical Director from 1975-1980. Howard Shore went on to compose
music for many blockbusters including; Gangs of New York, The Silence
of the Lambs and The Lord of the Rings trilogy for which he garnered
three Academy Award(r) nominations and two wins for his Return of
the King score. Shore's music could also be heard on The Lord of the
Rings Symphony tour, which premiered in Wellington, New Zealand in
November 2003. The symphony provided an extension of the history-making
movie experiences, taking audiences back to Middle Earth with the
composer's Oscar-winning score. Shore personally conducted the orchestra
on many of the concert dates.
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"I am by nature a perfectionist and I
seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in half-perfection
condition. If I made any mistake it was in working too hard and
in doing too much of it with my own hands."
Howard Hughes
One of the most compelling figures of the 20th century, Howard Hughes
was an influential innovator, savvy industrialist, glamorous motion
picture producer and quintessential American risk-taker – but
he thought of himself first and foremost as an aviator. With The
Aviator, director Martin Scorsese focuses his storytelling lens
on the most prolific period of Hughes’ life: the period from
the mid-1920s through the 1940s, when Hughes’ daring-do and
passion for flight drove his pioneering efforts in both aviation
and the movies. A time of rampant invention, turbulent love affairs
and savage corporate battles, this was also the time when Howard
Hughes’ high-flying ambitions first met with the costs of fame,
fortune and his own obsession with perfection.
In making this film about a man fascinated by technology and driven
by dreams of the future, Martin Scorsese used cinematic innovations
to recreate the reality of Hughes’ world. Merging digital technology
with classic techniques of lighting, costuming, set design and miniatures
from the 20s, 30s and 40s, Scorsese and team have painstakingly
forged the look of The Aviator to resemble how the film might
have appeared to audiences had it been shot in the two-strip and
three-strip Technicolor of Hughes’ heyday. The result brings
Scorsese’s modern aesthetic to a viscerally alive American
past.
The Aviator explores not only the achievements but the emotional
life of Howard Hughes, including his love affairs with two Hollywood
legends: the elegant, Yankee-bred leading lady Katharine Hepburn
(Cate Blanchett) and the luminous screen beauty Ava Gardner (Kate
Beckinsale); as well as Hughes’ fierce competition with Pan
American’s visionary head Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin); his life-long
relationship with his right-hand man Noah Dietrich (John C Reilly);
his public battles with Senator Owen Brewster (Alan Alda); and the
devastating airplane crash and phobias that led him to ultimately
withdraw from the world.
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Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Howard Hughes, who,
just barely out his teens, makes the maverick decision to use his
inherited fortune from his father’s drill bit company to film
a World War I dogfight-themed epic, "Hell’s Angels."
Bucking the Hollywood system as an independent producer, Hughes
sets out to make a movie unlike any other, performing his own outrageous
aerial stunts, designing special aircraft and racking up the largest
feature film budget in history. A roaring success, "Hell’s
Angels" plunges the still boyish Howard Hughes beyond fortune
into celebrity.
After founding Hughes Aircraft Company and boldly shattering several
speed records, Hughes becomes the most famous American flyer since
Charles Lindbergh, a mythic figure imbued with an aura of excitement,
mystery and glamour. In the 1930s, Hughes takes over the airliner
TWA, and begins efforts to usher America into the Jet Age –
while developing audacious plans to build the largest plane in the
world, the flying boat known as The Hercules. Yet the man celebrated
for his wealth, his daredevil brilliance, his romantic dalliances
and his spirited pursuit of the future cannot seem to escape the
corrupting forces of his personal compulsions no matter how fast
or high he flies.
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1 Icarus
2 There Is No Great Genius Without Some Form Of Madness
3 Muirfield
4 H-1 Racer Plane
5 Quarantine
6 Hollywood 1927
7 The Mighty Hercules
8 Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.
9 America’s Aviation Hero
10 7000 Romaine
11 The Germ Free Zone
12 Screening Room
13 Long Beach Harbour 1947
14 The Way Of The Future
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Howard Hughes Leonardo Dicaprio
Katharine Hepburn Cate Blanchett
Noah Dietrich John C. Reilly
Juan Trippe Alec Baldwin
Ava Gardner Kate Beckinsale
Errol Flynn Jude Law
Glenn Odekirk Matt Ross
Johnny Meyer Adam Scott
Jean Harlow Gwen Stefani
Professor Fitz Ian Holm
Martin Scorsese Director
John Logan Screenplay
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