Besides Inspector Gustave, there are also other characters who work at the station: the cafe owner(Frances de la Tour), the newspaper stand owner(Richard Griffith) who likes her, and the flower shop girl(Emily Mortimer) for whom Gustave has been carrying a torch.
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Right from the opening scene where the movie glides straight from the picturesque night landscape of Paris to the bright interior of the station, the cinematographer Robert Richardson’s camera smoothly moves around the bountifully gorgeous interior designed by Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo while following the movements of Hugo and other characters.
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He does not get paid, so he usually steals croissant and milk from the cafe in the station while managing to elude the watchful eyes of Station Inspector Gustave(Sacha Baron Cohen, funny in a stiff, straight way) and his loyal Doberman dog Maximilian.ĭuring its first half, thanks to Scorsese’s full command of styles and techniques, we have a joyful fun with the world in which Hugo moves around using the hidden spaces and passages around the station. He learned lots of skills from Claude like he did from his dad, so, while living in the place hidden from the people, he has been working as an unrecognized unofficial maintenance man for the clocks in the station since his uncle was disappeared. Hugo’s father died due to an unfortunate fire incident before completing his restoration job, so Hugo was left alone, and he was brought by his alcoholic uncle Claude(Ray Winstone) to the train station. They still can be operated they can do not lots of things, but, when I was watching one YouTube clip, I could not help but marvel at how it was meticulously operated by its intricate clockwork mechanisms inside the machine. Many automatons were made during 1860-1910, “the Golden Age of Automata”, and some of them have been well-preserved by the museums and collectors.
Hugo’s father found an automaton, the machine which can write or draw by itself after it is winded up, at the basement of the museum, and he was determined to restore it. When he was younger, Hugo Cabret(Asa Butterfield) was living with his clockmaker father(Jude Law) who also worked at the museum. The story begins with a young boy who has been living in one big train station in Paris, which is probably the Montparnasse station, during the early 1930s. Can you possibly imagine a PG-rated family movie made by the great American director who has impressed us with the gritty masterpieces like “Raging Bull”(1980) or “Goodfellas”(1990)? However, while it is a fantastic family film in many aspects, “Hugo” has the heart filled with his love and admiration toward the great artistic medium in the modern history, and we are rapturously reminded again of how we dream through the films we love – and why these beautiful moments in the darkness are worthwhile to preserve. At first, “Hugo” feels offbeat in the career of Martin Scorsese.
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