Arts challange Research: Howard Hughes

I was only originally going to research 3 producers but in learning more about the role of a producer I came across Howard Hughes in the following: http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-producer.htm. I felt as though I wasn't on track with my target, so to change this I thought I would go all out, in detail research of Howard Hughes...

I then became fascinated over his work, and leaned the the film staring Leonardo DiCaprio, is intended to show Howard Hughes life, even if it is glamorised, So I bought it on DVD and watched it... I had high expectations because it was such a gripping story and it was directed by Martin Scorsese and I know he is a fantastic director. This lasted 170 minutes

Anyway, It was amazing to watch Howard Hughes persistence and see him strive for perfection, he is very different to my original image of a producer I have in my head. I always saw them as people who are stingy with money and want to film it and move on to maximise profits but obviously this was not the case for Howard Hughes.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/p/hughes.htm: He was such an interesting person. I wanted to watch something he had done,  so I decided to watch 'Scarface' and it ran for 93 minutes (this is fitting as for my AS film studies we are studying US cinema and the gangster genre). I found the film absolutely incredible, it was made in 1932, so technically speaking it was not incredible in terms of sound and picture quality. However the  way it tells the story and shows yo the downfall of Tony and seeing his rise and fall, it was truely facinating and even if it was made in 1932, I still prefer it to De Palma's 1983 remake, I feel as though it is slightly less glamorised and more gritty.

The thing that makes Howard Hughes for me is his ambition and his fearless film making style, Scarface is one of the first real gangster films, so effectivly Howard Hughes Pioneered a whole genre and made it what it is today

Alot of my 12 hours of Arts Research has been spent just by watching films, however there is truly no greater way to learn about film than watching films and doing a bit of relevant research to go alongside it...