Director Martin Scorsese may be better known for fairly violent films but this shows that he has the lightness of touch to make a charming tale with young protagonists that can be enjoyed by viewers of all ages.
I found it an utter delight and the two hours just flew by. The rest of the cast, which includes many well-known actors also perform well. Watching on television I can't say how good the original 3D effects were but even on the small screen everything looked beautiful; with many scenes referencing famous moments in early cinema.
The main story is a delight with moments of sadness and moments of pure joy. Initially I thought the character would prove interesting but gradually warmed to him as the story progressed. Overall I'd certainly recommend watching this as I found it utterly delightful.
The pic is a magic story with rip-snorting adventures , exciting fantasy , state-of-art FX , sensational scenarios and good feeling. Set in s Paris, an orphan Butterfield who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in an intrigue involving his late father Jude Law and an automaton , Hugo is tending to the station clocks during his uncle's Ray Winstone mysterious absence.
Hugo's father was a watchmaker and he has inherited his father's talents for all things mechanical. During the early scene which introduces the interior of the train station , there are appearances by characters representing Django Reinhardt, James Joyce, and Winston Churchill. One of the most legendary directors of our time , Martin Scorsese's first PG rated film in 18 years , takes you on an extraordinary adventure full of amusement and entertainment.
This is an impressive production with awesome scenarios , groundbreaking set design and over-the-top 3D visual effects , being the first movie in this system directed by Martin Scorsese.
The opening track shot of the city ending at the train station was the very first shot designed and it took one year to complete , it required computers to render each frame required for the shot. Brian Selznick book's imagination is brought to life with top-notch computer generator special effects. Marvelous performances by the entire casting as Butterfield as an orphan who lives in a Paris railway station, Grace Moretz as a likable little girl who befriends and helps Hugo and of course the great Ben Kingsley as the magician George Melies.
It packs amazing fantasy , breathtaking adventures and overwhelming images that convey us a sense of wonder and surprise. Provides enough amusement to keep the hands on your seat and dazzling eyes until the moving ending. The film displays a colorful and evocative cinematography by Robert Richardson , winning the Oscar's cinematographic category for this film meaning that he and Vittorio Storaro are the only present living cinematographers to win the award 3 times.
Emotive and imaginative musical score by Howard Shore. Rating : Very good , better than average. Essential and indispensable watching. The young boy who keeps the clocks running in the Paris train station. TxMike 26 March With as much advance publicity this film received It is a very entertaining and very visually pleasing movie. Set in s Paris the first thing is not to be thrown off by all the characters speaking with a British accent.
In a form of throwback this is how movies were often made back in the middle of the 20th century. The story starts with the Paris train station at its busiest, with the Eiffel tower in the background. In the first 2 minutes we get glimpses of most of the main characters, and all of them by the 4 minute mark. The title character is Asa Butterfield as Hugo Cabret whom we soon discover is living in the expansive walls of the train station and keeping the massive clocks wound and running. We wonder, how did he get to this point, and why is an year-old allowed to do this?
He had long quit making movies and now makes a small living selling items in the train station. This movie is a relatively accurate depiction of him.
What might seem like an unusual choice Sacha Baron Cohen of 'Borat' fame plays the Station Inspector after petty criminals and runaways.
He is very effective in this role. She and Hugo eventually become fast friends and she helps assure his notebook is not burned. Jude Law has a small but important role as Hugo's dad.
So, what is this movie about? SPOILERS: Hugo knew little about the automaton that his dad salvaged when it was being discarded, but the notebook was of his dad's drawings to try to rebuild it. His dad died in a tragic explosion and fire and Hugo took refuge in his dad's old job to avoid being placed with his drunkard uncle. Reading some of the comments here, it appears the advertising for this was somewhat misleading, so people left the theater disappointed.
I don't remember any advertising so I had no idea what to expect. Set in , year-old Hugo Cabret Asa Butterfield lives in Paris with his father Jude Law , a widowed clockmaker who also works at a museum. He finds a broken automaton, a mechanical man designed to write with a pen, at the museum, and Hugo and he try to repair it, his father writing down various steps in his notebook. When his father is killed in a fire, Hugo goes to live with an alcoholic uncle Ray Winstone who maintains the clocks at the railway station of Gare Montparnase.
His uncle disappears one day, but Hugo stays on living in the clockworks and maintaining the clocks and steals items to repair the automaton. He also tries to avoid the Station Inspector Gustave Sacha Baron Cohen who will send him to an orphanage if he finds out his uncle is gone.
When Hugo is caught stealing from the toy store, the owner, Georges Ben Kingsley confiscates Hugo's notebook. Hugo enlists the help of Georges' goddaughter Chloe Grace Moretz to retrieve it. It turns out that her godfather is the famous Georges Melies, a magician and film director who was responsible for many technical developments in the early days of film, including special effects and time-lapse photography.
And the automaton was his invention. When his films went out of style after World War I, he dropped out of sight and sold toys. People went into this film expecting Hugo to have a great adventure, when in fact this is the story of George Melies and the very early days of film.
I can't describe how beautiful and astonishing this film is, a true awe-inspiring feast for the eyes in 3D. The film also depicts the Montparnasse derailment of The acting is excellent, and though Butterfield's casting was criticized as being just because he was a beautiful child, I disagree. I think he was wonderful, as was Moretz. Ben Kingsley as the stern toy owner Georges who reveals himself as the heartbroken and brilliant Georges, is fantastic, and Helen McCrory is a standout as Georges' beautiful wife.
A true masterpiece, told in storybook fashion, not to be missed. Quinoa 30 November Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Brian Selznick's inspired novel which itself was like a pop-up-graphic-regular-novel hybrid, which is the first clue as to why 3D was appropriate is in just one word: wonderful. It has a lot of drama to it, and not just because it deals with deceased fathers, or supposed deceased father figures, and yet the film also carries the wonder of invention, for things seemingly fantastical an 'automaton' that is kind of like a robot only with a specific task to be carried out , and overtly fantastical as cinema and the process of invention itself.
It ostensibly follows its young hero, Hugo Cabret a very talented young actor Asa Butterfield , as he hides in the clock- tower of a train station in Paris circa , and how he slowly bonds with a crotchety old shopkeeper Ben Kingsley via his much younger relative Chloe Moretz , and a discovery is made about who this 'Papa Georges' really is. Nothing less than beautiful as a "kids" movie in quotes since it can be for anyone that just happens to have two kids as its main characters and as an ode to film- how precious is it, how important artists are, and what the medium is possible for.
In fact, this is what makes the 3D not only impressive - it is essential to the craft of the film; where usually 3D is a gimmick used for cheap effect, or when filmmakers don't understand proper visual spacial relations or what depth of field is, Scorsese and the superlative DP Robert Richardson does. Remarkably as well in scenes that showcase what 'Papa Georges' did with his film sets as the director Georges Melies created fantasy realms.
Scorsese is one of the only filmmakers - maybe, arguably, the ONLY filmmaker - to understand how to use 3D to his advantage with the space he has. As the man who coined the phrase "Cinema is about what's in the frame and what's out", he takes this gimmick - and it still is a gimmick - and gives it a kick in the ass. And yet it's not just the technique that's impressive here, it serves as the tool for the story, which is about something precious and dear: the old and the new, and being able to make room for both equally.
There are other factors that come into play as well, for why Georges Melies wasn't celebrated throughout time and space and of course sound in cinema and WW1 did a lot for that , but it's really about how to find wonderment in art and life, how the two are more than compatible, they compliment each other.
Art feeds life. And ultimately a filmmaker in his 60's like Scorsese connects strongly with the young hero, a figure who finds some comfort in the world of fantasy of the automaton and cinema, and in Papa Georges not to mention the Michael Stuhlbarg character, who is a film preservationist in the days when film nitrate was the used to make women's shoes. I also neglect to mention some other things in the film, such as Sacha Baron Cohen playing a quasi-bumbling police officer at the train station who with his big dog has a penchant for carting off stray kids to the orphanage.
His parts are the stuff of the "B-plotline", but it's still entertaining stuff, and gives a little time to spare between the tragedy that is Hugo's early life the death of his father played by Jude Law and the tragedy of Papa Georges' life when Stuhlbarg shows the surviving film reels to Hugo and others, it's a bittersweet, touching moment, so rare in films these days in general.
Thankfully amid the clock-towers and sweeping crane shots and the swoon dream-within-dream sequences, there's heart and human beings, and one of Ben Kingsley's most affecting performances in years. There's spectacle in the vision, grace in the action set-pieces few but significant as they are , and the colors rich and textured in grades of blue, green, red, gold and white. Go see this one. Before watching this with my movie theatre-working friend, I had previously watched many Martin Scorsese pictures that were violent or at least adult concerning subject matter.
This one is meant for families but also offers something of a historical matter concerning the beginnings of the magic of the movies. Anyone who appreciates film history and preservation should marvel at the way Scorsese shows various clips of many classic silent movies that get showcased here other than those of Melies like my wondrous reaction when a clip of Harold Lloyd's Safety Last which I recently watched on YouTube was shown when Hugo and Isabelle were sneaking into a cinema.
All I'll say now is I highly recommend Hugo. Oh, and the 3-D imagery was great, too. Coventry 26 December Usually I don't write user comments for popular high-budget blockbusters, but I specifically wanted to write about this movie because this is Scorsese's very own and personal ode to cinema and that urged me to write an ode to him and his work. Through using the most modern techniques and hypes — including 3D effects — Scorsese brings a deeply respectable homage to the pioneers and earliest basic techniques of the medium that loves so much and has been working for nearly half a century now.
The titular character is a shy and introvert young orphan who lives inside the walls of a Paris' train station in the late 's. Hugo makes sure that the station clocks keeps running on time without being noticed by the strict station inspector, and at night he desperately tries to repair a broken automaton.
The device is the only thing that still connects Hugo with his deceased father and the young boy strongly believes that it carries a hidden message. And is he ever right! When Hugo and his new friend Isabelle discover the automaton's hidden message, they embark on an adventure that will uncover some secrets on people that are very close and dear to them. He scrounges food from the vendors and steals mechanical parts from the owner of a toy shop, Georges Melies.
In fact, Hugo's father was a watchmaker and he has inherited his father's talents for all things mechanical. Years before, Hugo's father found an intricate mechanical man, but they could never figure out how it worked. Hugo befriends Melies's ward, Isabelle, and together they have an adventure, one that centers around Melies himself. Hugo is an orphan boy who works on the clocks and is trying to survive while hiding from the relentless yet clumsy and stupid Railway Inspector in the train station in Paris in the 's.
During these struggles Hugo gets interested and tangled in a mystery involving his Automaton left by his dead father. Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father.
Sign In. Director Wojciech Klimala. Wojciech Klimala Mateusz Wajda. Top credits Director Wojciech Klimala. See more at IMDbPro. Photos 6. Storyline Edit. Zdzislaw Misiak, known as Dzidek, is the retired king of amusement parks.
After his daughter's death his 7 year-old grandson Hugo comes to live with him in one of the left over barracks. Monsieur Labisse Helen McCrory Mama Jeanne Michael Stuhlbarg Rene Tabard Frances de la Tour Madame Emilie Richard Griffiths Monsieur Frick Jude Law Hugo's Father Kevin Eldon Policeman Gulliver McGrath Young Tabard Shaun Aylward Street Kid Emil Lager Django Reinhardt Angus Barnett Theatre Manager Edmund Kingsley Camera Technician Max Wrottesley Train Engineer Marco Aponte Train Engineer Assistant Ilona Cheshire Arabian Knight Christos Lawton Arabian Knight Tomos James Arabian Knight Ed Sanders Young Tabard's Brother Terence Frisch Circus Barker Max Cane Circus Barker Frank Bourke Gendarme Stephen Box Gendarme Ben Addis Salvador Dali Robert Gill James Joyce Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Mihai Arsene French Fisherman uncredited Lasco Atkins Talent Scout uncredited Catherine Balavage Girl in Cafe uncredited Gintare Beinoraviciute Magic Theatre Guest uncredited Doc Butler Parisian in Cafe uncredited Graham Curry Railway Porteur 71 uncredited Amanda Dyar Train Station Pedestrian uncredited Guinevere Edwards
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