The Aviator Movie Details
The Aviator taglines:For some men, the sky was the limit. For him, it was just the beginning.
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| Directors: Martin Scorsese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 out of 78,481 votes |
“The Aviator” 2004 by Martin Scorsese – Movie Goofs
“The Aviator” Plot Summary
A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes’ career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.
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“The Aviator” Goofs List
- Anachronisms: At least one of the Fokker biplanes shown rolling for takeoff in the Hell’s Angels (1930) scenes had a modern opposed cylinder engine.
- Continuity: When Howard and Faith are at the nightclub, they share a chocolate sundae. The scene begins with a continuity issue involving Faith’s spoon. As the sundae itself melts and re-freezes, the cherry jumps from the top to the side and back to the top with fresher fudge. Also, at one point, Faith is shown with her arm raised, eating, but, in the very next shot, her arm is on her lap.
- Anachronisms: The grounded TWA Constellation airliners shown are “Super G Constellations” with wing-tip fuel tanks, a model that did not fly until 1951. TWA would still be flying regular “Constellations” in 1946, when the scene was supposed to have taken place, as all Lockheed Constellations were grounded from July 12 until August 23, 1946.
- Anachronisms: In the early scene when Hughes takes Hepburn on a flight over LA, the first aerial shots briefly show a couple of obviously modern buildings as well as part of a freeway.
- Anachronisms: The first time we see Pan-Am’s headquarters, a close-up of the upper portion of the Chrysler Building shows several cellular telephone antennae.
- Continuity: The posters outside the viewing room where Howard locks himself change when he leaves. Before he leaves, the Scarface (1932) poster is on the left and the Hell’s Angels (1930) poster is on the right, but by the time he’s gone they have switched.
- Continuity: When the model of the Hercules is brought out to promote the plane’s construction, the propellers are turning in the wide shots, but not in the close-ups.
- Anachronisms: In 1928, Hughes orders “10 chocolate chip cookies” – which were not invented until 1933.
- Continuity: During the brawl in the nightclub, the violin player is standing/sitting between shots.
- Continuity: As Hughes steps out of his plane just before meeting Hepburn on the beach and he buttons his coat, his tie is outside the coat. In the next shot of Hughes, the tie is tucked in under the buttoned coat.
- Anachronisms: In the Pantages Theatre premiere sequence, posters for The Women (1939) are quite visible. On the soundtrack we hear an announcer praising the newly discovered Ava Gardner who did not enter films until 1941.
- Anachronisms: The Honolulu clock behind Brewster shows the time is 9:30, 3 hours earlier than the time on the Los Angeles clock (12:30). Based on Brewster’s line about Harry S. Truman being Vice President, the scene takes place between January-April 1945. Until the Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time Zone was changed to its present 3-hour differential in 1947, Hawaii was a half-hour behind the West Coast.
- Revealing mistakes: In a shot with the Hercules aircraft in the background, a painter is seen applying paint to the nose-area of the aircraft with a paint roller. The roller passes past the section that he is supposed to be painting.
- Anachronisms: Howard Hughes refers to the Lockheed “F-80″ when he’s talking to Noah and Odie about working with jet engines. Since this conversation took place the same day as the flight of the Spruce Goose, 2 November 1947, then he should have called it the “P-80″, as the Air Force did not discard the “Pursuit” designation until 1948.
- Miscellaneous: In the closing credits, Kenneth Welsh’s name is misspelled as Kenneth Walsh.
- Continuity: When Howard is lying in the hospital bed, the pillow changes positions between shots.
- Continuity: The overhead shot of the H-1 just before Hughes takes it off for its test flight show the airplane with its short wings (used for setting pure speed records), whereas the in-flight shots portray the airplane with its long wings (used for cross-country races and setting cross-country records).
- Continuity: When Hughes is checking the control panel mock-ups for the Hercules, his hands are on/off the controls between shots.
- Revealing mistakes: When Hughes is staring at his hands in the projection room he raises them to be illuminated by the light of the projector in a close-up, but in the subsequent long shot, although his hands are still in the light, there are no shadows of the hands on the screen.
- Anachronisms: When the Spruce Goose first gets airborne, two members of the crew stationed behind the cockpit can be seen briefly exchanging a high five.
- Anachronisms: When Howard is in the hospital, Trippe sends a flower arrangement that contains Gerber Daisies. Gerber Daisies are a hybrid and were not bred until after the 1950s.
- Anachronisms: Near the end of the film, when Hughes and others are in the tent beside the Spruce Goose, the ceiling fans are of a modern style not invented in the 1950s.
- Anachronisms: There are references to both Ava Gardner and Linda Darnell well before either became a movie actress.
- Anachronisms: The dialog places the scene where Hughes shows Frye and Gross the XF-11 on Christmas Night 1944, but the plane’s insignia is of the post-World War II USAF, a red bar in the center of the white bar; it should have just the white bar. And the star on the left boom is pointing in the wrong direction.
- Continuity: At the premiere screening of Hell’s Angels (1930), in the first wide shot after the film ends, Dietrich is seen to be one of the first to applaud, but on the close up of him, he is shown as being hesitant and watching others to see if they start applauding.
- Continuity: In the first scene where they are filming Hell’s Angels (1930), Hughes puts his hand up in the air in a close-up, but then it’s down by his side when they cut to the wide shot.
- Continuity: In the restaurant scene with the indoor snowfall, snowflakes on Howard’s shoulders appear and disappear between shots.
- Continuity: When Howard does his first (and last) flight with the Xf-11, you can see a very wide runway from the cockpit view before takeoff. But from the outside view (probably made with 3d studio) you can see a narrow runway.
- Anachronisms: Whilst Katharine Hepburn and Howard Hughes are dining in the Coconut Grove in 1935, she states “Haven’t you heard? I’m being labeled box office poison…” Hepburn and a list of other stars including Mae West and Joan Crawford were not listed as box office poison until 1938 by a board of film distributors.
- Continuity: When Hughes is dining with Senator Brewster in the hotel, his jacket seems to vary between being buttoned and unbuttoned. Before he rises to leave, he buttons it, but when he stands up, it is unbuttoned again. Then when he walks into the hallway (in what appears to be a differently coloured jacket) it is buttoned up again.
- Continuity: When Hughes leaves the hotel room after his dinner with the senator, he is wearing a different color suit.
- Boom mic visible: When Howard is in the hospital after his plane crash, a boom mic is visible on the door.
- Anachronisms: When in the Coconut Grove, an assistant tells Howard Hughes that all the color cameras in Hollywood are being loaned to Cecil B. DeMille at Paramount so he can’t have additional cameras for Hell’s Angels (1930). DeMille left Paramount in 1925 to establish his own studio where he remained until 1928 when he joined MGM. He didn’t return to Paramount until 1932 for The Sign of the Cross (1932). The color cameras referenced in “Aviator” would have been for the color sequences in The King of Kings (1927), a film made by DeMille for Pathe-DeMille, the name of his studio during the “Hell’s Angels” filming.
- Continuity: In the frontal shot of the Hercules, the pilot’s and copilot’s cockpit windows are open. The next shot is from the side of the Hercules and the windows are closed.
- Revealing mistakes: During the filming of Hell’s Angels (1930), as one of the SE5a scout biplanes taxis past, the fact that it is a reduced-scale replica is obvious due to the oversize pilot’s head. Also, same shot, you can see his modern microphone attached to the helmet.
- Continuity: When Howard rolls out the “Spruce Goose” at the dinner party, the plane’s eight engines are shown with propellers spinning, then seen from a different angle they are not spinning, and then back to a head-on shot they are spinning again.
- Continuity: In the Coconut Grove when we first see Errol Flynn, the waiter brings out Howard’s “usual”, which includes 12 peas. The first shot of the dinner plate shows 12 peas. The shot of the dinner plate after Jude Law steals a pea still shows 12 peas. The amount of peas does not change until the third shot of the dinner plate showing that there are now 10 peas.
- Continuity: When Faith Domergue crashes her car into H
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