Hugo (film)

Hugo is a 2011 BritishAmericanFrench 3D historical adventure drama film directed and coproduced by Martin Scorsese and adapted for the screen by John Logan. Based on Brian Selznicks novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, it is about a boy who lives alone in the Gare Montparnasse railway station in Paris in the 1930s. A coproduction between Graham Kings GK Films and Johnny Depps Infinitum Nihil, the film stars Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chlo Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Jude Law, Helen McCrory, and Christopher Lee.

In 1931, 12yearold Hugo Cabret Asa Butterfield lives in Paris with his father Jude Law, a widowed, but kind and devoted master clockmaker who also works at a museum. One day his father finds a broken automaton, a mechanical man designed to write with a pen stored at the museum, and he and Hugo try to repair it, his father documenting the automaton in a notebook. When his father is killed by a fire at the museum, Hugo is forced to live with his resentful, alcoholic uncle Claude Ray Winstone, and made to learn how to maintain the clocks at the railway station of Gare Montparnasse. When Claude goes missing for several days, Hugo continues to maintain the clocks, fearing that he would be sent away as an orphan by the vindictive Station Inspector Gustave Sacha Baron Cohen if Claudes absence was discovered. Hugo earnestly attempts to repair the automaton, believing it contains a message from his father, and steals parts along with food from the stations stores and passerbys. The machine would still require one last part, a heartshaped key that his father could not find.Hugo is caught when stealing from the toy store owner Georges Ben Kingsley who takes his fathers notebook and threatens to destroy it when he looks through it. Hugo encounters Georges goddaughter Isabelle Chlo Grace Moretz who offers to help get the notebook back. Hugo learns Georges has forbid Isabelle from going to the cinema, and introduces the medium to her as his father had done for him. As their friendship grows, Hugo takes Isabelle to where he has kept the automaton, and is surprised when Isabelle reveals she wears the key as a necklace given to her by Georges. When started, the machine draws out a scene that Hugo recognizes from his fathers description of the film A Trip to the Moon. Isabelle identifies the signature, that of a Georges Mlis, as her godfather. Isabelle sneaks Hugo into her home, where they find a hidden cache of more imaginative drawings of Mlis, but they are caught by Georges, who

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