He became a phobic recluse. The fact is that he does have a list of accomplishments in filmmaking and aviation and busines life.

The guy would have loved disinfectant wipes.
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What do you want him to do? Eat pizza and watch NFL?

The word 'Hughes'.
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The point is, that by the 1970s nobody really associated Hughes with anything else but being rich and being crazy. A kid growing up in the 1970s had no idea how Hughes got rich, it was just assumed he was born that way. Back then there was no internet, no youtube or Wikipedia. By 1970 he was forgotten, because he made no direct impact on humanity. It was fitting-he didn't care about other people and other people refused to give a damn about him. Once in a while an article in magazine would pop up about Hughes, but it was usually pure sensationalism, reporting on him and his germ obsession, how he refused to trim his toenails or cut his hair, stuff like that. By the 1970s he was no more that a side show, an oddity.

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Never watched it but i would assume its another hate the white man film. Hey the 20s was a progressive era, they called it the roaring twentys but if time travel existed especially by Hollywood bigets, it probally be the hippie twentys. Very poor picture, slander. Canoli bashing rico law beep

That's a bold theory - take away the most noteworthy aspect of his personality and he's not as interesting?

You bring up some very good points. I love this movie and I appreciate the man, mainly because I am a pilot and also interested in engineering and filmmaking, although I am phobia-less, and I have a family.
I think that in the overall realm of history, he did make some good contributions. If I were to believe the story about the CAB bill, that would have killed the modern airline industry as we know it. He did help further aircraft design overall, no matter how slight. Even though at the time, it was to further his own interests, he did end up making some headway into modern air travel.
But, at the end of the day, the man himself was pretty unimpressive save for his phobias and OCD. It would be interesting (to me at least) to see how he managed to overcome them during times of stress, like during his aircraft building, shooting movies, and senate hearing, only to fall back into the ocean of OCD and phobias once again after each success.
It's funny how there are so many movies dedicated to people of similar nature. Steve Jobs comes to mind. He was also someone who, while he had a vision and capital, was a person of no interesting qualities, and he has several movies about him.

Only sheep interact with other sheep, Hughes was no sheep. You sound very young and inexperienced actually. Pretty much most of the men that have changed or have had a solid impact on the world, typically have had some major flaws in their social interactions.
Jesus
Albert Einstein
Mozart
Alan Turing
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Stephen Hawking
Julian Assange
And the list goes on.
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From what I have read about him he seems to show signs of autism to go with the OCD. From a person to person perspective he looks very wooden. He seemed to be a very eclectic genius that somehow changed the world while failing interacting with it.