The Aviator (2004)
Billionare Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the man to be. He dates his women, makes his movies, and builds his planes. But he also has obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and a terrible fear of germs, which eventually lead him to lock himself in his screening room by himself, repeating the same things over and over again and keeping himself very clean. He eventually comes out of solitude for court hearings, where he is dubbed a thief, a war profiteer, and a liar, but Howard says that he was never in it for the money. All he wanted to be was an AVIATOR. In the end, the plane Hercules (a.k.a. The Spruce Goose) does fly, but at the after-party Howard goes crazy again and his people lock him in a bathroom so he can recuperate. He calms down but keeps repeating the words, “the way of the future.” He then remembers once when he told his mother that, when he grew up, he would make the greatest movies ever, build the best planes ever, and become the richest man ever. This is basically how Hughes lived the rest of his life, alone and locked in hotel rooms and such. He did this so the public could never really learn about his personal problems. It’s too bad because Hughes was a genius, and in a way he did invent “the way of the future.”
— Thanks to chris night!
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