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HUGO (2011)
Director: Martin ScorseseCast: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee
Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
BACKGROUND: Based on Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
SUGGESTIONS:
If you liked HUGO, you may be interested in the following:
WATCH:
Georges Méliès was a Movie pioneer and an innovator in the use of special effects. In HUGO, Méliès is played by Ben Kingsley, and his film A TRIP TO THE MOON (1902) is shown.
Director: Georges Méliès
Cast: Georges Méliès, François Lallement, Jules-Eugène Legris
WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: Some scenes in HUGO make us remember WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.
Director: Mel Stuart
Cast: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum
Watch also CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly
OLIVER TWIST (1948): A boy left alone in the world … Hugo and Oliver Twist have some points in common.
Director: David Lean
Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh
THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD (1995) – A key also plays an important role in THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD as it does in HUGO.
Director: Frank Oz
Cast: Hal Scardino, Litefoot, Lindsay Crouse
WATCH ALSO:
Some scenes of SAFETY LAST!, starring Harold Lloyd, can be seen in HUGO. Harold Lloyd was one of the most popular comedians of the silent movie era. If you never watched one of this movies, this could be a good opportunity to do it.
Directors: Fred Neymeyer), Sam Taylor
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother
LISTEN:
The ‘Tonight, Tonight’ video by The Smashing Pumpkins was made having A TRIP TO THE MOON as a reference. ‘Tonight Tonight’ was the third single and second track on the first disc from 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'.
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DJANGO REINHARDT was a Belgium-born French guitarist and composer, considered as the first important European jazz musician which contributed to the development of the guitar genre. In HUGO, the musician is seen playing in the cafè.
SUGGESTION:
READ:
There are several references to James Joyce in HUGO. The frozen people outside of the apartment building are a direct reference to Joyce's short story 'The Dead'.
A TRIP TO THE MOON was inspired by many sources, including Jules Verne's novels From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon. Read also AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.
‘Oliver Twist’ by Charles Dickens
THE POEM: In HUGO, Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz) recites to Inspector Gustav "A Birthday" by Christina Georgina Rossetti in the train station. Here is the poem:
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
ABOUT CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI: Christina Georgina Rossetti was born in London on December 5, 1830. She was one of the most important women poets writing in nineteenth-century England. This poem can be found in the following book:
TRAVEL:
Hugo lives in the Gare Montparnasse railway station. The Gare Montparnasse is located at: Place Raoul-Dautry, 75015 Montparnasse, Paris, France.
See: http://www.tourmontparnasse56.com/#/home#_=_
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