Hugo is a 2011 historical adventure drama directed and produced jointly by Martin Scorsese and adapted for screens by John Logan. Based on Brian Selznick's book, The Discovery of Hugo Cabret , it tells the story of a boy who lived alone at the Gare Montparnasse train station in Paris in the 1930s.
Hugo was Scorsese's first film to take 3D pictures, in which the filmmaker commented, "I find 3D to be very interesting, because actors are more open emotionally, their smallest moves, their smallest intentions take it much more precisely. " The film was released in the United States on November 23, 2011.
When released, Hugo received critical acclaim and received 11 Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture), more than any other movie that year, and won five awards: Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Visual Effects. It was also nominated for eight BAFTAs, won two out of eight, and was nominated for three Golden Globe awards, producing Scorsese, his third Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Nevertheless, the film is a commercial failure, grossing $ 185 million against the $ 150- $ 170 million budget.
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Plot
In 1931, 12-year-old Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) lived in Paris with his father (Jude Law), a widow widow maker who also worked part-time at a museum. One day, his father found a broken robot - a mechanical man who was designed to write with a pen - in a museum. He and Hugo tried to fix it, with Hugo's father documenting the robot in a notebook. When his father was killed by fire in the museum, Hugo was forced to live with his alcoholic uncle, Claude (Ray Winstone), and was made to learn how to keep the clock at Gare Montparnasse train station. When Claude disappears for several days, Hugo continues to defend the hour, afraid that he will be sent away as an orphan by the Gustave Station Inspector DastÃÆ'Â © (Sacha Baron Cohen) Inspector Station if Claude's absence is found. Hugo tried to fix the robot with the stolen part, believing it contained a message from his father, but the machine still needed a heart-shaped key that his father could not find.
Hugo was caught stealing from the owner of Georges toy shop (Ben Kingsley), who looked through his father's notebook and threatened to destroy it. Hugo meets the goddaughter Georges Isabelle (ChloÃÆ'Â · s Grace Moretz), who offers to help get the notebook back. Hugo learns Georges forbids Isabelle to go to the movies, and introduces the medium to him as his father did for him. As their friendship grows, he shows him the robot, and is astonished when Isabelle accidentally reveals that she wears the key as the necklace given to her by Georges. When it started, the machine drew a scene Hugo recognized from his father's description of the movie A Trip to the Moon. Isabelle identifies the signature, that a "Georges MÃÆ' Â © liÃÆ'¨s", as her godfather. He sneaks Hugo into his home, where they find a hidden cache of a more imaginative image of MÃÆ' Â © liÃÆ'¨s, but is captured by Georges, who drives Hugo out of his home.
Hugo and Isabelle went to the Film Academy Library and found a book on the history of cinema that praised the contributions of MÃÆ'  © liÃÆ'¨s'. They met the author of the book, Renà ©  © Tabard (Michael Stuhlbarg), a film expert who was surprised to hear that MÃÆ'Â| liÃÆ'¨s may still be alive, as he had disappeared after World War I along with almost all copies of his films. Excited at the chance to meet him, RenÃÆ' © agrees to meet Isabelle and Hugo at Georges' house to show a copy of Journey to the Moon, hoping it will refresh Georges.
The next day, Hugo discovers that the key somehow finds its way into the train tracks at the station. When he went down the track to pick it up, he was suddenly hit and killed by an uncontrolled train that eventually hit the station walls. Hugo wakes up to find that the terrible event is just a nightmare. Upon realizing that the pocket watch hanging from the ceiling of his house was lost, Hugo could still hear the gripping sound that emanated from nearby. When he realizes that the sound is coming from near his chest, he pulls his shirt and is horrified to discover that last night, his body has been filled with revealed hydraulics that seem to be what keeps Hugo alive. As he tests his limbs, they also become purely mechanical. When his head turns to metal, he finds himself transformed into his own robot. As the final stage of the final transformation - his hair and eyeballs disappear and his face forms inward from his robot - Hugo wakes up again to find that this is another nightmare, perhaps and annoyingly symbolizes Hugo's beliefs of all beings who have a single purpose in life.
On a scheduled night, Georges' wife Jeanne (Helen McCrory) tries to evict them, but RenÃÆ'Â © praise Jeanne as Jeanne d'Alcy, an actress in many films MÃÆ'Â Â © liÃÆ'¨s, and she allows them to continue. When the movie is playing, Georges wakes up when he sees, and finally Jeanne convinces her to honor her achievements rather than regret her lost dreams. Georges relates that as a stage magician, he was fascinated by the film, and used the medium to create imaginative works through his Star Movie Company, but was forced to bankrupt after the war, shut down his studio and sold his film to convert it into raw materials. He regretted that even the robot he made that he donated to the museum was lost. Hugo admits this is the same robot he has, and races to the station to pick it up. He was arrested by Gustave, who had known that Claude's body was discovered some time ago, and threatened to take Hugo to an orphanage. Georges arrives and tells Gustave that he will see Hugo, adopting him as his son.
Some time later, Georges was promoted to professor at the Film Academy, and was rewarded through a work of his film found by Renà ©. Hugo joins his new family as they celebrate at the apartment, where guests including the newly-footed Gustave mellower clearly fall in love with Lisette (Emily Mortimer), florist at the station. When the movie ends, Isabelle starts writing Hugo's story and the robot is shown in Hugo's new room, staring into space.
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Cast
Michael Pitt, Martin Scorsese, and Brian Selznick have cameo roles.
Production
Pre-production
GK Films acquired the screen rights for the Hugo Cabret Discovery soon after the book was published in 2007. Initially, Chris Wedge went in to direct the adaptation and John Logan was contracted to write the screenplay. The film was originally titled Hugo Cabret . Several actors were employed, including Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, ChloÃÆ'Â · s Grace Moretz, and Helen McCrory. Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Christopher Lee, Frances de la Tour, and Richard Griffiths later joined the project. Hugo originally budgeted $ 100 million, but ran with a final budget of between $ 156 million and $ 170 million. In February 2012, Graham King summed up his experience in producing Hugo : "Let's just say this is not easy for me for several months - there are already plenty of Ambiens involved."
Filming
Production begins in London on June 29, 2010; the first filming location is at Shepperton Studios. The Nene Valley Railway near Peterborough also lent their original Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits train to the studio.
In August 2010, production was transferred to Paris for two weeks. Locations include the Sainte-GeneviÃÆ'¨ve Library, the Sorbonne (where the college hall was transformed into a cinema hall of the 1930s) in the 5th arrondissement, and the National Park and the surrounding area on the 9th. The middle school LycÃÆ' Â © e Louis-le- Grand serves as the base of film operations in Paris; the canteen serves 700 meals a day for the cast and crew.
Music
The film's soundtrack includes the original Oscar-nominated score compiled by Howard Shore, and also utilizes the use of the Danse tiger by Camille Saint-SaÃÆ'¡ns and Gnossienne No. 1 by Erik Satie. Additional music is provided without exception by French pianist and composer Jean-Michel Bernard
Release
The film was theatricalally released on November 23, 2011 by Paramount Pictures, premiered on NYFF on October 10, 2011, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 28, 2012, by Paramount Home Entertainment.
Historical reference
The background and key features of Georges MÃÆ'  © liÃÆ'¨s' life as depicted in the film are largely accurate: She became interested in the movie after seeing the LumiÃÆ'¨re camera brothers demonstration; he is a magician and toy maker; he experimented with automata; he has a theater (Theater Robert-Houdin); he was forced into bankruptcy; the film's stock is reported to melt due to its celluloid; he became a toy salesman at Montparnasse station, and he was finally awarded the Là © on gà © ne d'honneur medal after a terrible period of neglect. Many of the earliest silent films featured in the film are the real work of MÃÆ'  © liÃÆ'¨s, such as Le voyage dans la lune (1902). However, the film does not mention the two children MÃÆ'  © liÃÆ'¨s, his brother Gaston (who worked with MÃÆ' © liÃÆ'¨s during his filmmaking career), or his first wife Eugene nie, who married MÃÆ'Ã… © liÃÆ'¨s during her making a film (and who died in 1913). The film shows MÃÆ' © liÃÆ'¨s married to Jeanne d'Alcy during their filmmaking period, when in fact they were not married until 1925.
The automaton design was inspired by the Maillardet robot created by Swiss watchmaker Henri Maillardet, viewed by Selznick at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, and the author's "Jaquet-Droz automaton". Part of the scene with Harold Lloyd at Last Safety! (1923), depending on the clock, is shown when the main character sneaks into the cinema. Then, Hugo, like Lloyd at Safety Last! , hung from the hands of a big clock in the clock tower to escape from a chaser.
Some of the movie's L'ArrivÃÆ'Â © e d'un train of gare de La Ciotat were described, describing the surprised reaction from the audience - although this view is in doubt.
Emil Lager, Ben Addis, and Robert Gill made cameo appearances as the father of jazz guitar Gypsy, Django Reinhardt, Spanish surrealist painter Salvador DalÃÆ' and Irish writer James Joyce, respectively. The names of all three characters appear towards the end of the movie player's credit list.
The book Monsieur Labisse gave Hugo as a gift, Robin Hood le proscrit (Robin Hood the villain), written by Alexandre Dumas in 1864 as a French translation of a work of 1838 by Pierce Egan the Younger in England. This book is symbolic, because Hugo must avoid the "right" (Inspector Gustave) law enforcement to stay at the station and then return the automaton to a working status and to its rightful owner. Certain copies given to Hugo look like English editions of 1917 (publisher David McKay, Philadelphia, United States) with cover and interior illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, but with "Le Proscrit" added to the cover by the prop department. There is also a description of Montparnasse's derailment, when at 4 pm on October 22, 1895, Granville-Paris Express stormed a buffer stop at the Gare Montparnasse terminal.
Reception
Box office performance
Hugo earned $ 15.4 million during the Thanksgiving weekend debut. The company then earns US $ 73,864,507 domestically and $ 111,905,653 overseas, with gross worldwide of $ 185,770,160. Regardless of the praise of the critics, Hugo is referred to as one of the box-office flops that are famous this year. The perceived failure is due to competition with Disney The Muppets and Summit's Breaking Dawn Part 1 . The film is estimated to have a net loss of $ 100 million. Producer Graham King said the box-office results were painful. "No finger pointing - I'm a producer and I take responsibility," he said. "Budget-wise, there's not enough preparation time and no one really realizes how complicated it is to do 3D movies.I went through three line manufacturers because nobody knows exactly what was going on.Am I still thinking" It's a masterpiece which will be talked about in 20 years? Yes. But once the schedule starts to come out, things just turn and spin and that's when the avalanche starts. "
Critical reception
The film currently holds a 94% "Certified Fresh" rating on the aggregate review site Rotten Tomatoes based on 213 reviews, with an average score of 8.3/10. The critical consensus of the website reads, "Hugo is a luxurious, elegant fantasy with innocence that does not exist in many modern children's films, and that radiate a shameless love for the miracle of cinema. " Metacritic gave the film an average score of 83 out of 100, based on 41 reviews, showing "universal recognition".
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars, saying that the movie "... is unlike any other film Martin Scorsese ever made, and probably also the closest to the heart: the epic of the extended family , the budget in 3-D, and in some ways, the mirror of his own life.We feel great artists have been given the command of the tools and resources it needs to make a film about - the film. "Peter Rainer of Christian Science Monitor gave him the value of "B" and referred to it as "a strange mixture: a very private impersonal film" and concluded that "Hugo is a mixed bag but one worth tearing apart." Christy Lemire says that the film has " which is abundant to the power of the film, being a hard cinephile (like Scorsese) might add a layer of enjoyment, but it certainly is not a prerequisite for walking on the door "in addition to being" a bit repetitive and too long ". Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave him three stars and described them as "rich and stimulating even when wandering," explaining "every locale in Scorsese's vision of 1931 Paris looks and feels like another planet. heartily as he tells the story of this story about the importance of movie preservation. "Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal says that Hugo is visually [...] a miracle, but dramatically it is lemon working hours ".
Hugo was selected for the Royal Film Performance 2011 with screenings at Odeon, Leicester Square, in London on 28 November 2011 in the presence of Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall to support Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund. Richard Corliss of Time called it one of the 10 Best Movies of 2011, saying that "Scorsese love poems, beautifully made in 3-D, restore the earliest reputation of the early pioneers and the glory of historical films - the birth of the art form popular given the new life through the application of the coolest new master technique ". James Cameron calls Hugo a masterpiece and that the film "has the best use of 3D [he] has seen," even beyond his own famous films.
List of top ten
The film appears on the criticism list of the top ten movies of 2011:
Accolades
References
External links
- Official website
- Hugo on IMDb
- Hugo at Rotten Tomatoes
- Hugo in Metacritic
- Hugo in Box Office Mojo
- Hugo at AllMovie
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