Continuity mistake: When Hughes and Odie are talking about mounting a camera on a biplane and removing one of the wings, the shots alternate between a back view of their heads and a front view of their faces. Odie's head position has no relationship to the one it had in the preceding angle in most of the cuts.
The Aviator (2004)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, John C. Reilly, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm
Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies with success. As the victory celebration takes place, Howard suffers from his mental disability and keeps on repeating, "The way of the future", over and over. As he cools off in a restroom, he remembers himself as a boy saying that he wants to make movies, fly planes and become a rich man.
Doug Hryniuk
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Howard Hughes: What the hell does a senator from Maine need to fly to Peru for?
Trivia: At the Academy Awards, Cate Blanchett became the first Oscar winner to win her award for playing another Oscar winner.
Question: When they were showing Hell's Angels in the premiere, when there was a crash sequence, the explosions were in color, but the planes in the background were still in black and white. How is that possible? Why they didn't make the explosion in black and white too?
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Answer: They did this by hand to te explosions to add effect.
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