![]() This eventually led to alienation between Méliès and his brother Gaston upon whom the burden of production of footage fell upon. After initial success, Méliès found the audiences were losing interest in his work in 1907 and when Thomas Edison created the Motion Pictures Patent Company that effectively controlled this new industry of film making in America and Europe, Méliès found himself under additional pressure to produce a certain amount of footage per week. Selznick (producer of “Gone with the Wind” and “Rebecca”) and Myron Selznick.īrian Selznick based his story on the life of George Méliès (8 December 1861-21 January 1938). Méliès was an early pioneer of cinema and discovered the stop trick (an object is filmed and then when the camera is turned off, moved out of sight and thus “disappears”), used multiple exposures, time-lapse, dissolves and brought in color by hand-tinting each frame. In 2002 he had received the Caldecott Honor for his “The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins.” He is a cousin of David O. He received a 2008 Caldecott Medal for this book. The 45-year-old Selznick graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. Of the book’s 533 pages, 284 are illustrations, making it not a novel and not quite a picture book. Selznick’s book was originally published in 2007 by Scholastic Press. The characterization of the inspector seems too much in the vain of Javert (the police officer who pursued Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s 1862 “Les Miserables.”). Some might not be satisfied with how Hugo and even Isabella eventually fit into the story. The best moments of the movie are when the two children are together on their great adventure and this doesn’t always fit so neatly with the drama of the past. He, his wife and his goddaughter are the key to Hugo’s past and future. He’s bearded but a decidedly unjolly type and likely frightens away all his little potential customers. The toy shop owner, Papa Georges as he is called by his goddaughter and ward, Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz), is played by Ben Kingsley as a bitter man. Instead, he focuses his attentions on the orphans who come to the station for shelter from the cold and a bit of shoplifting. The inspector pines for the flower lady, Lisette (Emily Mortimer), however is too embarrassed to approach her romantically because of his gimpy leg–a result of his service during World War II. The station is patrolled by an inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen) with his Doberman. He has also brought along the automaton boy which he steals parts from a toy shop within the station. ![]() The uncle disappears, leaving Hugo to wind up and repair all the train station clocks, but as he is unpaid, he must steal for his food. Hugo’s drunkard uncle (Ray Winstone) is also a clockmaker, repairer, but works and lives at a train station. This adventure movie is based on Brian Selznick’s novel “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” which is about a Parisian orphan named Hugo (Asa Butterfield) whose master clockmaker father (Jude Law) taught him how to tinker and together they were restoring an automaton boy when his father is killed during a fire at a museum.
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