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Like all of the best and most troubled Hollywood productions, you can watch the movie and then you can watch the movie about the movie: in this case, Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, which spends a chunk of its runtime on the making of Hell’s Angels. With seemingly limitless resources, no filmmaking experience, and no one to tell him “no,” producer Howard Hughes forced two directors out before taking over the job himself, then spent a year and a half crafting a silent film before deciding that sound would be the way to go—at which point actors had to be replaced. Hughes’ lax eye toward safety also led to the deaths of three pilots and a mechanic, and left Hughes with a skull fracture (that’s sometimes seen as contributing to his later eccentricities) and facial reconstructive surgery. All told, the film took about three years to produce.
Still: Those aerial sequences remain some of the most thrilling ever filmed.
Where to stream: There’s not an official streaming source, but it’s readily available in reasonably good quality on YouTube.
from Lifehacker https://ift.tt/eyiJCTM
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