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The Aviator (2004)

Name: The Aviator
Director: Martin Scorsese
Genre: drama film, adventure film, biographical film
Duration: 170 min
Rating: 7.5

Directed by Martin Scorsese.

Directed by Martin Scorsese · Shot by Robert Richardson · Cut by Thelma Schoonmaker · Music by Howard Shore · Ratio 2.39:1 · 170 min

How it was made

For the film's first 52 minutes, Scorsese rendered scenes in shades of red and cyan only, with green objects appearing blue, to emulate the look of early bipack Multicolor film that Hughes himself had once owned.
Aero Telemetry built flyable scale models of the Spruce Goose, 170kg with a 6.1-metre wingspan, and the XF-11, 340kg with a 7.6-metre wingspan, reverse-engineering the XF-11 from photographs and rare drawings in Rhinoceros 3D.
Scorsese chose scale models and full-scale static builds over CGI for the flying sequences, a decision influenced by the negative critical reaction to the computer-generated aircraft in Pearl Harbor (2001).
The Aero Telemetry team had only three months to complete three models, including a 5.5-metre-wingspan H-1 Racer stand-in, after the full-scale replica of the original aircraft was destroyed in a crash shortly before principal photography began.
The houses into which the XF-11 crashes on screen were built at 1:4 scale to match the scaled model aircraft, and the model itself was rigged to be crashed and broken several times for different shots.

Behind the scenes

The Aviator (2004) Making-of & Behind the Scenes | Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Alec Baldwin — Popular Media Channel · 11 min
The Visual Effects of The Aviator — Featurettes and stuff · 12 min
Leonardo DiCaprio and Alan Alda Q&A on The Aviator — Featurettes and stuff · 28 min
Color Grading and Intense Lighting in the Aviator — Videomaker · 7 min
Costuming The Aviator | The Work of Sandy Powell — Featurettes and stuff · 4 min
Scoring The Aviator | The Work of Howard Shore — Featurettes and stuff · 7 min
The Aviator | 'The Four Million Dollar Movie' (HD) - Leonardo DiCaprio, John C. Reilly | MIRAMAX — Miramax · 4 min
The Aviator | The H-4 Hercules Flight | Warner Bros. Rewind — Warner Bros. Rewind · 13 min

Elsewhere

More by Martin Scorsese

What Happens at Night
The Wager
A Life of Jesus
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? — 1963
It's Not Just You — 1964
The Big Shave — 1967
Who's That Knocking at My Door — 1967
Street Scenes — 1970
Woodstock — 1970
Boxcar Bertha — 1972
Mean Streets — 1973
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore — 1974
Italianamerican — 1974
Taxi Driver — 1976
New York, New York — 1978
The Last Waltz — 1978
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince — 1978
Raging Bull — 1980
The King of Comedy — 1982
After Hours — 1985
The Color of Money — 1986
The Last Temptation of Christ — 1988
New York Stories — 1989
Goodfellas — 1990
Made in Milan — 1990
Cape Fear — 1992
Scorsese X 4: Four Short Films By Martin Scorsese — 1992
The Age of Innocence — 1993
Casino — 1995
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies — 1995

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