{"id":7076,"date":"2011-12-29T19:53:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T00:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2011-12-29T18:56:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T23:56:14","slug":"hugo-2011-martin-scorsese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7076","title":{"rendered":"Hugo (2011, Martin Scorsese)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scorsese’s first major non-DiCaprio feature in a decade.<\/p>\n

After the films of Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s aren’t popular anymore, he burns his props, donates his precious drawing robot to a museum and opens a trinket shop in a train station. Museum worker Jude Law takes the robot home to repair it then dies in an explosion. Museum man’s son Hugo, secretly the station’s clock-winder since his drunk uncle (Sexy Beast<\/em> star Ray Winstone) has disappeared, repairs the mechanical man and, Amelie-like, presents it to Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s, rekindling his hopes, dreams and love of cinema. Help comes from M\u00e9li\u00e8s wife (Helen McCrory: Tony Blair’s wife in The Queen<\/em>, Malfoy’s mum in Harry Potter<\/em>), an author of a book on cinema (Michael Stuhlbarg, star of A Serious Man<\/a><\/em>) and Chloe Moretz, who seems to have gotten younger since her last few films.<\/p>\n

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Some side plots are loosely integrated – they must be leftovers from the novel. Inspector Cohen has a crush on lovely flower girl Emily Mortimer (of Shutter Island<\/a><\/em>) but is embarrassed by his mechanical leg brace, Christopher Lee is a forbidding\/kindhearted book seller, and Richard Griffiths (uncle Monty in Withnail<\/a><\/em>) is doing something or other with Frances de la Tour (in charge of the Albert Finney’s Head science project in Cold Lazarus<\/a><\/em>) and her dog.<\/p>\n

Set at the Gare Montparnasse train station where the famous photograph of the train derailment was shot – Hugo must’ve seen the photo because he dreams himself causing it. Some good cinema-reference, a few lovely bits of 3D (and some 90 minutes where I barely noticed the effect), and a nice performance by Ben Kingsley, but ultimately I couldn’t shake the feeling that it’s just a well-made kids movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scorsese’s first major non-DiCaprio feature in a decade. After the films of Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s aren’t popular anymore, he burns his props, donates his precious drawing robot to a museum and opens a trinket shop in a train station. Museum worker Jude Law takes the robot home to repair it then dies in an explosion. Museum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,952,91,947,636,541,822,294],"class_list":["post-7076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-christopher-lee","tag-filmmaking","tag-jude-law","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-melies","tag-three-dimensional","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7197,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions\/7197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}