This way the movie informs us about the true story of the turn-of-the-century French pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès. He tells them in detail about the master's former accomplishments. Inspired by these discoveries, Hugo and Isabelle continue their search and find a film specialist and admirer of Méliès and his work, Rene Tabard. The two children also find out that the automaton was a beloved creation of this cinema legend, when he originally had performed as a magician. Was this his father's message that he was searching for? They discover that this film, A trip to the Moon, was created by Georges Méliès. When they use this key to activate the robot, it produces a drawing of a poster of a film Hugo remembers his father telling him about. Isabelle turns out to have the key to the automaton. After Hugo invites her to his secret world and to a movie, which her godfather has never let her see, Isabelle introduces her new friend to the books in a bookstore and a library she explores. This orphaned goddaughter of the toyshop owner lives with Méliès and his wife. In his despair, Hugo shares his secret with a precocious girl close to his age named Isabelle. The storeowner looks at the notebook as if he has seen a ghost. One day, Georges Méliès, the toy-store owner, a grumpy old man, catches Hugo trying to steel a wind-up mouse and takes away the boy's blueprints for the robot. All that he needs now to bring the windup figure to life is the key that opens its heart-shaped lock. The young protagonist tries to make these repairs mostly with mechanical parts salvaged from the toys he had stolen from a toy store in the station. Convinced that it contains a message from his dad, the boy goes to desperate lengths to fix the machine by scrounging for spare parts all over the train station. His father had left behind a notebook with blueprints and details of the construction for the mechanical figure. Hugo thinks that there is magic hidden in there somewhere. This masterwork of shining steel and brass sits frozen, with a pen in the right hand, ready to draw and write. The mechanical man is all that remains of a happy past. He had drunk himself to death.Īmid the clocks, gears, pulleys, and jars, Hugo putters, sleeps, and dreams of fixing a delicate broken automaton that his father had given him after finding it in a museum. Later Claude's body was found in the river Seine. This uncle had taught him to take care of the clocks, and then disappeared. The boy was taken away by his alcoholic uncle Claude, who had been responsible for maintaining the clocks in the railway station. In flashbacks we learn that, years after Hugo's mother's death, his beloved father, a clockmaker, died in a museum fire. The boy feeds himself with food snatched from station shops and sometimes sneaks into a movie theater. He always stays one step ahead of the orphan-hunting, choleric station inspector Gustav, constantly managing to escape back to his refuge behind the walls and above the ceiling of the station. In order to avoid being put into an orphanage, Hugo hides in the maze of ladders, catwalks, passages and gears of the clockworks. Seemingly abandoned by his uncle Claude, the station's official clock-keeper, the boy lives alone, deep in the station's interior, in a dark, dusty, room that was built for employees. In 1931, Hugo Cabret, a lonely, melancholic 12-year-old orphan winds, repairs, and maintains daily all the clocks in the Montparnasse train station in Paris. The fable-like movie, Hugo, is based on the historical-fiction book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Tim Headington, Graham King Screenplay:īen Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, Helen McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg, Frances de la Tour, Richard Griffiths, Jude Law
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