MovieReal: The Aviator Page #6

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It's a primitive urge from caveman days.

It's all in Darwin.

Hunt the flesh, kill the flesh, eat the flesh.

That's the male sex all over.

Excuse me?

Well, if you're deaf,

you must own up to it.

Get a hearing aid.

Or see my father.

He's a urologist, but it's all tied up

inside the body, don't you find?

Me, I keep healthy.

I take seven showers a day

to keep clean.

Also because I am what's so

vulgarly referred to as "outdoorsy."

I'm not outdoorsy.

I'm athletic. I sweat.

There it is.

Now we both know the sordid truth.

I sweat and you're deaf.

Aren't we a fine pair of misfits?

Three.

Noble effort.

So I suppose you're

wooing me now?

Oh, well.

Not enough.

Not enough.

These rivets have to be completely flush.

I want every screw and joint countersunk.

I want no wind resistance

on the fuselage.

She has got to be clean, Odie.

- Clean. Understand?

- Okay, Howard.

I don't know

what else to tell you.

- What do you got for me?

- The thing is, TWA needs a new plane.

- A modern plane.

- Oh, yeah? What kind of plane?

Okay. The DC-3 has 21 daytime seats...

...and 14 overnight berths.

- Something bigger?

Try 50 seats with

a ceiling of 12,000 feet.

No. No, 20,000.

Think about it.

What does 20,000 feet give you?

- Less turbulence.

- Because it's above the weather.

Jack, we wanna fly

above the weather.

Only 1 percent of the American population

has set foot on an airliner.

Why? Because they're scared to death.

They should be.

I mean, 7000 feet is bumpy as sh*t.

You know that.

We build a plane

that flies above the weather...

...we could get every man, woman

and child in this country to feel safe.

An airplane with the ability to fly into

the substratosphere across the country.

Across the world.

Now that is the future.

- You with me?

- Yeah.

I don't wanna get into this

if your board doesn't have the balls for it.

- Would they support us?

- I don't know.

- What's your financial picture?

- Not great.

- Last year's deficit?

- 770,000.

- What's it selling at?

- About 8 dollars a share.

That's the lowest it's been, huh?

I could do that.

- Do what?

- Buy it.

- You wanna buy the airline?

- For crying out loud...

...we don't want pencil pushers getting

in the way of us making our plane.

Give me brass tacks, now. What does

controlling interest in TWA cost me?

Call it 15 million.

That is a chunk of change, huh?

You call Noah Dietrich.

You have him start buying.

Howard, hold on.

Are you sure?

You wanna think about it for five minutes?

Hell, Jack, I got a tiger by the tail here.

I ain't gonna let it go.

Good evening, Mr. Hughes.

Welcome. Your table is ready.

How goes the aviation?

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