UK_Widowmaker 571 Posted March 18, 2011 Just watched the Film 'The Aviator'....very good. Never even realised, that Hells Angels was a Hughes film.... He was a fascinating Character. Apparently Fallout New Vegas fans... Mr House is based on Howard Hughes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Olham 164 Posted March 18, 2011 The film was pretty touching and disturbing - a fascinating character indeed; great acting by DiCaprio. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Olham 164 Posted March 19, 2011 Yes, it's available at AMAZON. Don't forget to mention the Zeppelin scenes - very good the interior ones. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bullethead 12 Posted March 19, 2011 Yes, it's available at AMAZON. Don't forget to mention the Zeppelin scenes - very good the interior ones. The Zeppelin scenes.... The skipper calls down the voice pipe: "Bosun, I'm sorry, but we're out of ballast. Please call all the riggers to the bombbay and make them jump out. Thanks." As if a half-dozen people made the difference. And then of course the Zep got shot down anyway. "Hell's Angels" was IMHO one of the worst movies ever made (apart from the air-to-air footage). I saw a History Channel show about Hughes a while back and it dates his weirdness to the making of that movie. He tried to do a stunt that all his stunt pilots refused to do, crashed as predicted, and suffered a head injury that gave him is obsessive-compulsive problems from then on. The earliest manifestation of this was his personal editing of the movie over months and months, to create the mess it is. Hughes went on to suffer further crashes and only got worse over time. The amazing thing is that he lived so long. And yes, Mr. House in FONV is based on HH. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bullethead 12 Posted March 20, 2011 Did they ever really have the observation car on the Zepplin Yup, that was real. And it was the most popular job aboard the zep because the guy stationed in the "cloud car", as they called it, could smoke. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
