OCD in the Aviator
Chris Walczak
5-11-14
Movie Review Paper
Aviator is a movie about Howard Hughes. In this movie, Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Howard Hughes. The movie centers on his life from the 1920’s to the late 1940’s. The movie focuses on what he did for aviation and movie producing. In the beginning of the movie, he gets an interest in aviation and film producing. The first movie that Hughes produces is Hells Angels, which took several years to complete and during the shooting he decided to add sound to the film. As the movie goes on, becomes involved with actress Katherine Hepburn (played by Kate Blanchett) and they live together and she helps with his OCD symptoms. As the movie goes on, he continues with his aviation passion. He then purchases TWA (Transcontinental & Western Air) and then later he test the H-1 Racer and as he testing the plane, he attempts to set a new speed record, but then ends up crashing it. Later on, Juan Tippe (played by Alec Baldwin) chairman for Pan America World Airways (Pan Am) was determined to not let Hughes challenge his company’s success. Then Senator Owen Brewster (played by Alan Alda) introduced a bill that would Pan Am a monopoly on international air travel. Then later on, Hughes breaks up with Katherine and then later pursues Faith Dormergue (played by Kelli Garner) and then actress Ava Gardner (played by Kate Beckinsale). Later then, he secures contracts to build 2 planes a spy aircraft and a troop transport for World War 2 for the American Air Force. But he only completes one, which is the XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft, but by the time it is done the war has been done for over a year, he was also building the Spruce Goose flying boat. Hughes OCD worsens; his symptoms are repetition of phrases and a phobia of dust and germs. Once he completed that XF-11, he took it out for a test run, one of the engines malfunctions, which results in him crashing the plane and is severely injured. Then with the result of that incident his flying
5-11-14
Movie Review Paper
Aviator is a movie about Howard Hughes. In this movie, Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Howard Hughes. The movie centers on his life from the 1920’s to the late 1940’s. The movie focuses on what he did for aviation and movie producing. In the beginning of the movie, he gets an interest in aviation and film producing. The first movie that Hughes produces is Hells Angels, which took several years to complete and during the shooting he decided to add sound to the film. As the movie goes on, becomes involved with actress Katherine Hepburn (played by Kate Blanchett) and they live together and she helps with his OCD symptoms. As the movie goes on, he continues with his aviation passion. He then purchases TWA (Transcontinental & Western Air) and then later he test the H-1 Racer and as he testing the plane, he attempts to set a new speed record, but then ends up crashing it. Later on, Juan Tippe (played by Alec Baldwin) chairman for Pan America World Airways (Pan Am) was determined to not let Hughes challenge his company’s success. Then Senator Owen Brewster (played by Alan Alda) introduced a bill that would Pan Am a monopoly on international air travel. Then later on, Hughes breaks up with Katherine and then later pursues Faith Dormergue (played by Kelli Garner) and then actress Ava Gardner (played by Kate Beckinsale). Later then, he secures contracts to build 2 planes a spy aircraft and a troop transport for World War 2 for the American Air Force. But he only completes one, which is the XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft, but by the time it is done the war has been done for over a year, he was also building the Spruce Goose flying boat. Hughes OCD worsens; his symptoms are repetition of phrases and a phobia of dust and germs. Once he completed that XF-11, he took it out for a test run, one of the engines malfunctions, which results in him crashing the plane and is severely injured. Then with the result of that incident his flying