"Montblack" wrote in message
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("Matt Barrow" wrote)
It took me two minutes to switch from DiCaprio to Hughes - tops.

Having spent numerous hours watching/hearing him while a then-teenaged
daughter when gaa-gaa over him a few years back (on DVD), I had trouble
getting his role in _Titanic_ out of my head.


I think that's why he was introduced to us (in the movie) the way he was -
forcefully, go, go, go. No time to compare. That's what I assumed Scorsese
was up to ...it worked for me.

What did your daughter think of him in The Aviator? Did his Hughes *work*
for her?

Well, she's 20 now, rather than 13, but she was fairly impressed (though she
thinks he's uggggly).

She was impressed, too, by the interviews (on the 2nd DVD) and by the fact
he had done a lot of research and acted as executive producer.


One nit about The Aviator - for me, the script was lacking (often uneven)
and was only rescued by good directing, good acting and great sets.

I still think the movie with Tommy Lee Jones as Hughes, (The Amazing Howard
Hughes), was better as a biography and less inclined towards his mental
illness which I think of as secondary to his great accomplishments. If you
get the two disk DVD, see the extra features part about his incredible
contributions to aviation.