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  • "Lenny built a bird house once". Ahhhhhhhggg!!!!!

  • She's playing Hepburn? Oh! OKay! Whatever!

  • What a bunch of assholes-- you fly that airplane, Howard!

  • I feel precisely the same way when in social situations. No one listens until you stick your foot in your mouth. You had no desire to speak in the first place, but then something stupid just comes out at a time when everyone happens to be listening. Haha! Oh dear, I just sympathized with a psychologically disturbed person!

  • When he says that to Hepburn's mother about having money I literally cheered him on. I was so caught up in being annoyed and yeah, count on Hughes to be a badass. I so sincerely hope this was based on something from their real relationship....lol. 

  • Hahaha "What the HELL is HE doing HERE?!". That line always cracks me up.

  • they are fucking jewish rich .....

  • what a pack of smug twats

  • that scene was so awesome.

  • Why are people siding with DiCaprio's character?? I spent the whole scene being annoying that some yahoo enginerd would wear that ill-fitting jacket to dinner with smart, respectable people!

  • @Huboons I can't believe you got flagged as spam! The same person annoyed with HUGHES jacket was just as annoyed that you spoke the truth. The SAME WAY HUGHES SPOKE THE TRUTH. But notice they did not say "Hughes", they said "Leo's character". The moron thinks this is fictitious! I think that sucks you got flagged as spam for NOT agreeing with them and speaking your mind as well. I imagine I will get flagged as spam myself. Whoever flagged you is just as smug as these assholes.

  • @trilobright Smart, respectable people are supposed to be gracious hosts to their guests. The profession and passion of their guests is an opportunity for the hosts to "broaden their horizons". As for the ill-fitting jacket, well, what can I say. Some people are obsessed with the superficial

  • @trilobright

    I can hardly say that the Hepburns were being respectable. Far from it actually.

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  • Is it me or does anyone else thinks that the entire cast's wardrobe for this scene was provided by Ralph Lauren?....

  • I love sniggers.

  • It's Ruth from Six Feet Under!

  • Ha an actor playing an actor?Whats next an actor playing and actor playing an actor?Then as you know it were performing INCEPTION!!!!

  • @xSxOxUxRxMxIxLxKxx He's an actor playing an aviator/innovator, film maker, investor, ceo of The Tool company, a man suffering with ocd...in short leo is playing the most badass, crazy motherfucker to walk the face of the earth, not an actor....

    "Im not some paranoid and deranged millionaire...Godammnit, I'm a billionaire!" - Howard Hughes...

    In this scene he is stuck with a family of folks that are the epitemy of everything wrong with hollywood.

  • @AustinCKurtis I don't think that's the whole intention of the scene. It's at least in part portraying Hughes' hypersensitivity brought on by his OCD, making the conversation appear more aggravating and jumpy than it would to someone else.

  • If I should have a dinner with this family in-law every sunday, I will probably KILL my sefl with an ice-cream spoon (those made of plastic)

  • This reminds me of the tea party in Alice in Wonderland.

  • FUCK !, THE BEST PART IS.... "EXCUISME I SPEAKING MOTHER FUCKER !

  • this whole scene is like a bad acid trip

  • @DCdeerZ True True

    

  • I love that she has/had an Uncle Willy.....Philadelphia Story flashbacks, anyone?

  • this demonstrates why socialists are who they are and cannot be reasoned with.

  • @Britslovesocialism Yes, this single scene out of hundreds in a movie about Howard Hughes brilliantly demonstrates the evil degeneracy of socialism in all its hideous forms, I agree, Britslovesocialism.

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  • The Hepburns were never this rich nor lived this elegantly. It wasn't even in their nature. But the scene is great fun, reality aside.

  • @waynebrasler No..Actually they were very rich. This is pretty much exactly how they would have lived.

  • good lord, they look nothing like kath's family

  • Cate is gorgeous in this scene.

  • This is the most annoying scene I have ever seen in a movie god this really makes me mad... if i was him i would have blown up at them

  • @HPOL001 While this scene may seem frustrating, the dynamics of the Hepburn family was something which Huges would have never have acclimated had her family been more convivial to strangers. The Hepburns were NOT snobs but were close knit. The family enjoyed many holidays and summers as a group, and Katherine was extremely close to her parents and brother. The family was well read and intellectuals, and their conviviality was a more to which Huges did not experience in his family,

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  • you fell soo bad for leo thats why he would always be amazing and again beautiful

  • I really love how his hair is set

  • fuking luddie

  • Great acting, tension!

  • @directorlog Not to mention the tension over accuracy on this thread. While the dynamics of this dinner scene impossible to know, I think it's very possible the Hepburns WERE elitists who yes, always had money. Then again so did Hughes. But he WORKED HIS ASS OFF! And for those saying "the Hepburns hated this movie" (her parents were dead), what's your source? Of course no one wants to be portrayed this way. But watching the real Hepburn I could EASILY see her coming from a background like this.

  • They really should have made Leo taller somehow either digitally or otherwise. Howard Hughes was something to the tune of 6'4"

  • that would be me thats because you have it

  • those people suck i would slam that table 

  • Good god. I'd be so awkward in a situation like that!

  • I had an experience like this once, not while eating though... The thing is I was trying to speak but everybody was interrupting me, they were talking about silly things, each one of them about something different... I wanted to scream... I hate when people interrupt me while I'm speaking... :(

    I understand Howard here (and I like the scene, too. Really well done in my opinion)

    By the way, Leo's performance as Howard is THE BEST, I can't imagine another actor instead of him

  • the most annoying four minutes of film ever put on the big screen,, the scene is so rehearsed, fake and unrealistic.. im sure they are all talking like that at once about ten different subjects, ruined the movie for me..

  • @flycentro123 wow you couldn't be more wrong

  • @V4D3R no im not, it really did ruin the movie for me? The Hepburns hated this as well and were not like this! they werent the aristocrats as portrayed in the movie and never met Hughes, but would have been respectful of him had they since he was a nationally if not world known figure.. they wouldnt have treated him like one of the help and asked him to "speak up" ridicolus... you must have been the person who didnt realize bruce willis was dead until the end of the movie in Sixth sense.

  • @flycentro123 hmmm kk... I uuh... never watched that. :S

    and lol, I'm sure the Hepburns are extremely pissed at Scorsese for portraying them this way.

  • @flycentro123 Cate Blanchet did as much research on Katherine Hepburn possible and NAILED it! How do you know they never met Hughes? What's your source? I DO NOT CARE IF I AM WRONG. But Scorsese made this film accurate as possible. The press conference was verbatim. I agree there is no way he could have known the dynamics of this dinner. I just want to know your source because I would be VERY surprised if Scorsese were to suggest they met Hughes if they didn't and throw in complete bullshit.

  • "What the HELL is he doing here?" lol...

  • man they were a blunt forcible group of people werent they. Very rude

  • Perhaps one of the best scenes ever produced. The setting is so recognisable.. Excellent directing work of Scorsese too.

  • "Snuff??"

  • I love Katherine Hepburn, love all of her movies, and Cate Blanchett does a fine job playing her.

  • rude fucks

  • @brandinator22 I really hate Hepburn's family with a passion.

  • The Hepburns weren't that rich and I don't think they ever lived this luxuriously or formally, given all the photos available of them at home and what Katharine herself wrote.  But they were smart, full of vitality, imaginative and broke just about every mold they could break.

  • The Hepburn's just show Howard a sign of their small insignicant genetilia.

  • 6 people snickered about FDR at the table.

  • Here in Europe we love liberal stars with class...not the junks recruited from waitresses...Katharine Hepburn was definitely one of the few thinking stars in Hollywood not afraid to speak out...probably because she came from a rich background and was therefore not exclusively dependent on her Hollywood salary...

  • Crazy bitches

  • I forgot that this

    Movie was actually

    A rather good one

  • The "ex" didn't have or want benefits. He was gay,  which Kate knew. This wasn't a love match, although they were dear lifelong friends.

  • The Hepburns were certainly comfortable, but they were definitely not "filthy rich." Also, I don't think they considered themselves Socialists.

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  • @Saeldur There is no reason to compare them because of their last names. Completely different actresses.

  • DiCaprio is superb in this movie.

  • @iDreamOfJulia It's a Kate Hepburn impression and Cate does a very good job. However, I do not think it was Oscar worthy.

    Blanchett is one of my fave actors and I think she deserved the Best Actress Oscar for "Elizabeth" (which went to the terribly overrated actress Gwyneth Paltrow) and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "I'm Not There." When one compares the Dylan performance to the Hepburn one, it's like glaringly obvious that the Academy mucked up.

  • This scene pissed me off. They are so obnoxious and pompous.

  • what an annoying bunch

  • SNUFF?! ^_^

  • Christ, the Hepburn family was a bunch of loud, rude assholes.

  • Leo's expression at 3:23 ...absolute perfection!

  • This is insanity. It feels like a table full of impressions of different versions of the same person.

  • "i'm a urologist" hahahah,

  • They are such snobs!! I could feel Howard's aggravation building through the whole scene! And who invites your daughter's ex-husband when you are meeting her new boyfriend? And though Howard Hughes always had money as well he didn't just sit and do nothing- he actually used his money to do good things

  • What a rude, snotty bunch. Proof that money doesn't buy class.

  • @leathirty No wonder Kate's brother hung himself when he was a young boy.

  • Wow. She is absolutely AMAZING at being Katharine.

  • PWNED!

  • Forget Meet the Parents, this is truly excruciating XD

  • "You don't care about money because you've always had it." In fact, Hughes, orphaned at 18, inherited $871,518—or $9.4 million in 2003 dollars; by 1938, thanks to other people’s astute management of Hughes Tool Co., he was worth $60 million (three-quarters of a billion dollars in today’s money). He was a far wealthier man than Hepburn’s father, a surgeon and urologist.

  • @melodia155 We're all very impressed with your fact finding what with having the internet and all, but the reason for all those facts are unjustified. Howard didn't make the absurd statement of not caring about money...the woman did. He called her on her own B.S. She was the one that made an ignorant statement, so I don't see what that has to do with Howards' financial advantages.

  • @melodia155 Remember Katharine Hepburn was a member of the Houghton family and heir to the Corning Glass Works fortune. Though Hughes was wealthy at the time, it is safe to say that the Hepburns were quite affluent and considered "old money".

  • @lacpof @daekru92 lacpof's point is well taken. But all I was trying to say is that the scene implies that Hughes was someone who didn't inherit money and was thus different than the Hepburns, when in fact he did inherit most of his fortune. It's not an honest scene.

  • @melodia155

    Hughes' statement did not contradict his financial standings. His statement brought to the surface that a person that always has AND flourishes on money does not have the right to say "I don't care about money."

  • I love Leonardo he's an awesome actor.

  • BOOM SIZZLE.

  • what's the name of the song in the beginning?

    this fa

  • SNUFF???

  • @BenDarkHorse Haha i love this scene. :D lol

  • My understanding is that the Hepburns could be a handful, but they were very well-bred and would never have been rude like this.

  • Funny.... most of my well-meaning socialist friends are elitists with money. They seem genuinely unaware that SOMEONE had to work to earn it in the first place! These people, the Hepburns, epitomize that mindset.

  • I've always wanted to be American upper-middle class in the 1940s.

    For the sake of the posh accent, mostly.

    These days, no matter how rich you get here, you never get to have an accent...

  • stupid snobby sycuk up their own asses dillusional socialists with their heads in the clouds

  • lol that dog is so much like my own xD "what, don't you like dogs? i thought everybody liked dogs!"

    "no, he must've just had a bad experience with dogs."

    "WHAT IS A DOBERMAN? A DASCHUND?"

    "neither, sir!"

    "daschund are little."

    and i don't blame howard at all that meat looked so gross xD also i can totally relate to the guy i hate being interupted. love leo's acting.

  • i like that they debate about politics and art and stuff

    but...what a bunch of headless chickens

    JEEZ

  • What a fun family!

  • Leo is just gorgeous <3

  • yankee scum

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  • @worldlylass No. The point here is that if you don't listen, you shouldn't speak. Just as you didn't really see what was going on in this scene, you shouldn't comment about it.

  • rules,and a leader is so nice in famili ,this famili dont have any of these things.......

  • Yeah it just goes to show you you can have a lot of money, you can put all these fancy things around you but you cant buy class!

  • Is this a real movie?????

  • @LexiixoxRoxx What do you mean?

  • @jacobestes I mean is this a scene from a movie or some sort of sketch/parody? Also, did this actually happen?

  • @LexiixoxRoxx It's a scene from Martin Scorcese's The Aviator, which is a brilliant and probably mis-marketed film. Hughes and Hepburn did have a relationship but I doubt a scene like this really played out. If you can find Leonardo's character to be sympathetic in this scene, then it's a good representation of the whole movie: An afflicted man in the terrifying real world where discerning your friends from your enemies will save you.

  • @jacobestes Ah, I see. It looks as though it would be a good film. Katharine Hepburn is actually one of my favorite actresses. And yes, I can definitely sympathize with his character in this scene.

  • good thing, I wasnt at this table. I would have choked someone.

  • I'd feel right at home with the Hepburns! I wish my family discussed abstract art and socialism at the family table... :-(

  • Wordlylass your fucking stupid

  • her family is very rude

  • I hear Howard also had an affair with Bette Davis - they should have brought in Winslet to play her (another Kate& Lleo reunion). Oh, and Drea de Matteo should have played Ava Gardner.

  • Cate Blanchett is awesome in this film, a well deserved Oscar

  • @sergjvi I love Blanchett, but did not care for this performance (I also hated the film)

    I thought Cate's Bob Dylan in I'm Not There was much more Oscar deserving than this Hepburn impression.

  • god its like they never shut up!

  • classic liberalism. people that practice this sort of behavior are called "limousine liberals." Sure is easy to be liberal when you don't have to worry about money, right?

  • @azcats03 true

  • Dicaprio playing a guy about 4 inches taller than him. But, it was fair.

  • God they are an annoying family! I loved it when he said to her Ex, "excuse me I'm speaking"!

  • oh dear, I hope when I meet the parents of my future bf, it won't be like that. HAHAHA nice movie (:

  • This movie made me realize that Leo could really act.

  • @WWAAK Me too.

  • @WWAAK Agreed. 

  • @WWAAK

    Lol, your not the fastest fella...

  • @WWAAK Leo - despite the popular belief - is one of the best actors i guess :)

  • I hate pretentious rich people who expect everyone else to be exactly like them.

  • quite funny family XD

  • what a bunch of loonies.

  • I love the pride smile of kate when howard starts to explain about his plain...she is so pride of him.Quite Charming

  • When I read Hank Rearden at his table with his family in Atlas shrugged,, I visiualize something like these people.

  • (Ex- husband), he's here all the time. Ex- with benefits.

  • i know her dad - the actor, i mean nice guy

  • the dinner from Hell!

  • I love how the filthy rich Hepburns are socialists.

  • Only Mrs. Hepburn was. They were also near-nudists and the guy with the camera is Kate's ex-husband Luddy who had a bad habit of hanging around after the divorce. Awkward.

  • @jovidman69 says what aload of bollocks socialism is :)

  • @jovidman69 Still a great movie though.

  • @jovidman69 The Hepburns were far from filthy rich, her father was a working doctor. This film makes them seem as rich and as tightly wound as the Rockefellers.

  • every1 at the table needs to loosen up a little. maybe smoke a bowl or get drunk. it wouldn't make them any ruder or obnoxious at the table.

  • the last thing snooby rich folks need is more booze. but a good toke yes, i agree there.

  • It's quite badly edited isn't it? When the scene shifts from the garden to dining room scene, it takes a moment for you to realize wats happening. But I love the movie.

  • terrible...terrible contrived real life or film it was all garbage- deception- affairs- money money money- these people were Madoff before Madoff- corrupt to the hilt. Rude people whose only claim to fame was their fake accents....

  • you sir are an idiot

  • was kat hepburn british?

  • No. She was from CT. It was the way people were trained to speak back then: it was considered "classy", so to speak. Not British, but not quite American either.

  • No... she had a new england accent. She was American.

  • Brilliant scene.

  • You know this is a movie that is based on recollections of the truth, so try investigating the facts before making such a harsh judgement. Try "Kate Remembers" it's the only book written by someone who knew Katherine Hepburn. She was from a rich family, because they were educated and became artists or doctors. And because of this education they were against Racism and Sexism which made them outcasts in their town. If that makes them snobs then I wish we were all snobs too.

  • yeah her mom, while a suffragist was an heiress to corning glass, and her dad was a wealthy doctor - so they've always had money - (even when a tornado blew away their house, they just built another one) - kate was also college-educated, especially when in those times few woman were - so yeah they were snobs, far-left, atheists.  Not to say thats wrong, just wanted to give history on her.

  • In that tornado, Katharine lost her 1933-34 Best Actress Oscar, which was later recovered intact. Just some more history.

  • great scene.. leo was soooo good..

  • best scene ever

  • The hepburns were snotty socialists who would not have invited a bum off the street into their home but would have gladly expected you to. What Howard said to them was right on. I seriously doubt that they worked hard for their money, certainly not as the average American does every single day. Stuck up and elitist, they are the very picture of what is wrong about socialism. I hope Howard actually did say this to them. They deserved it.

  • Wow Katherine's mom was a bit bitchy.

  • i didnt know Hepburn comes for a wealthy family. fascinating.

  • Cate's fabolous of course! But Leo was sooo good in this movie too, don't you think?

  • cate won a well deserved oscar, but don t you think it s as if one more time katherine hepburn won it even after death?

  • definitely!

  • The Hepburns might always had money, but they knew the value of hard work moreso than most New England bluebloods, and actually gave their money to a lot of charitable organizations whose causes they believed in. They know the value of working for a living.

  • "You've met Mr. Roosevelt, what make you of him?"

    Damn but wasn't the Mother the most annoying of that pack of smug little hypocrite New England snobs. Despite the lack of historical accuracy it's one of the more memorable parts of the movie and I cheered when he effectively told them all to go fuck themselves.

  • So did I!

  • Cate Blanchette looks so pretty in this movie.

  • This seems to be a totally pathetic parody of the Hepburn family. Cramming in all the autobiographical details they could!

    Note how Katharine calls one of the men "Uncle Willy" taken from The Philadelphia Story - so bloody contrived!

  • i agree she didnt play katharine hepburn very well but this scene was done well regardless of the obvious pieces they used from other movies

  • ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! SHE WAS SPECTACULAR PLAYING KATHARINE!!.. maybe thats why she won an oscar for her role?!?!?!?! i thought cate was flawless when i first saw this movie! an oscar worthy performance

  • I agree. Why all the nay-sayers? This was a brave, brilliant portrayal of an otherwise inimitable woman.

  • mrs. hepburn thought howard was laughing at mr. roosevelt