#hugo 2011

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For all the talk about Martin Scorsese nobody ever talks about Hugo, which is a shame because that movie slaps.

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Movie challenge:

7. a film from a year your mom was born

6. a film released before 1960

15. a film whose main genre is Romance.

25. a box office flop

Thanks for the ask!

7. A film from the year my mom was born

According to my letterboxd, the only movie I’ve seen from 1967 is The Jungle Book so that’s what I’m going with

You’ve probably all seen it before but this is the classic Disney adaptation of The Jungle Book. Phil Harris as Baloo is one of the best parts of this movie. The songs are iconic. It’s great.

6. A film released before 1960

For this one, I’m going with The Night of the Hunter from 1955.

This is an incredible film with an extremely creepy villain. It tells the story of two children who happen to know where their father’s stolen fortune is. His former cell mate, a serial killer preacher, hunts them down to try and get the money for himself. I believe this film is the origin of the “LOVE - HATE” knuckle tattoos.

15. A film whose main genre is romance

If you have seen my blog lately, you would know that I have been very into Ted Lasso. One of the many traits I seem to share with Ted is a love of rom-coms and so I am picking one of those: Kate and Leopold (2001)

Kate and Leopold is a fun romantic comedy that adds some fantasy/sci-fi elements. Kate is a woman living in New York City in 2001. Her neighbour/ex-boyfriend Stuart is a physicist who accidentally pulls Leopold from 19th century New York into the present. Kate and Leopold fall in love despite the time ripple issues that then of course cause issues. It’s a great movie and it’s Hugh Jackman and Meg Ryan so how can you go wrong?

25. A box office flop

I could have chosen a few for this but I went with Hugo (2011), directed by Tumblr’s favourite director Martin Scorsese

Hugo is a really interesting film about, well, film. The casting is excellent and the special effects are incredible. However, it’s the cost of these special effects that led it to being a box office flop. They just couldn’t recoup the budget.

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Guy needs more art bruh

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InStyle Magazine | March 2011

Pages 73 - 88

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Hugo, 2011

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Leighton Meester with Hugo Becker | Alexis Mabille Fall 2010 Couture gown | Gossip Girl | 2011

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William, Prince of Wales; Catherine, Princess of Wales

Artist: Hugo Burnand, Photographer

Date: 2011

Medium: Archival inkjet print

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom

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GOSSIP GIRL 2011-2012

He has too many PhDs. They cancel each other out and make him a moron.

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Hugo (2011)

Martin Scorsese is not known for his family films. You associate the name with gritty crime stories. So what drew him to Hugo? Perhaps he wanted to try something different? On top of being suitable for the whole family, the picture makes impressive use of 3D and special effects. If you’ve seen Hugo the whole way through, you’ll know why. I suspect Scorsese connected to this story on a deeply personal level.

In 1931 Paris, 12-year-old Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) maintains the clocks at Gare Montparnasse railway station. His alcoholic uncle Claude officially does the work but he’s been gone for months and as long as the machines keep the time, Station Inspector Gustave Dasté (Sacha Baron Cohen) won't ask any questions. This means Hugo is free to focus on the automaton he and his father were repairing before he became orphaned. Hugo keeps to himself, occasionally stealing parts from a toy store owner, Georges (Ben Kingsley). After he is caught and his book on the automaton is confiscated, Hugo befriends the toy maker’s goddaughter, Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz). He hopes she can help him get his book back.

There’s no way you can guess where this movie is going. The surprises along the way are a big part of the fun and the screenplay by John Logan (based on The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick) is in no hurry to get to its big reveals. As Hugo goes about his day, we meet all the characters who frequent the station. Richard Griffiths plays a man pining for a dog owner (played by Frances de la Tour) whose pooch can’t stand him. Shy Inspector Dasté wants to approach a beautiful flower saleslady (Emily Mortimer) but is embarrassed by an old war injury. Christopher Lee plays the owner of a book store who probably knows more than he lets on, Papa Georges is hiding something from Isabelle. And then there’s the automaton Hugo is repairing. How is it tied to his father? There’s enough going on with these characters that it doesn't matter if you don't know where the plot is going. You’re having a great time simply getting to know them, admiring the performances (Moretz does a flawless accent) and enjoying Scorsese's direction. Check out the way the camera moves down chutes, through crowds and then into the secret openings into Hugo’s home or the breathtaking shots of a long-gone Paris.

Ultimately, this is a small, personal story. The world’s fate does not rest in the hands of Hugo. The secrets we uncover deal with very human tragedies but it’s shot like all of reality hinges on the lonely boy finding a friend. After Hugo is over, you remember specific shots, specific characters and the emotions you felt while watching them. These would attract any director but I suspect Scorsese wanted this project specifically because the film contains numerous references to specific events in the history of cinema. We see a clip of Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last! and the film’s most iconic shot is re-imagined later on. The Montparnasse derailment of 1895 is reimagined and Scorsese gives us to opportunity to relive the shocked reaction audiences would’ve had while viewing “L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat” - that famous shot of a train coming towards the camera that supposedly had audiences falling out of their seats in terror - by shooting it in 3D - literally having the train come right towards the screen and frighten us. There are many other references to the history of cinema throughout. If you love movies, you’ll get an extra kick out of these scenes.

Hugo is moving, warm, romantic, tragic and exciting. It goes in unexpected directions and the surprises make the movie feel big while also keeping it small and intimate. The performances are excellent, the characters fully realized. The only mark against it comes from the presentation. This movie is meant to be seen on the big screen and in 3D. Few people will be able to see it that way now. If that’s the only flaw you can find in a movie, it's doing a lot of things right. (On Blu-ray, September 25, 2020)

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Josephine Skriver | Backstage Hugo Boss, Spring/Summer 2012.

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Title: Hugo

Rating: PG

Director: Martin Scorsese

Cast: Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, Helen McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg, Frances de la Tour, Richard Griffiths, Jude Law, Kevin Eldon, Gulliver McGrath, Shaun Aylward

Release year: 2011

Genres: adventure, family, drama

Blurb: Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s 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. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

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Pieter Hugo There's a place in hell for me & my friends First edition - Nov 2012 oodee. London

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I think the success of this movie encouraged its structure to be copied into the other MCU movies/shows. Strong setups, strong premises, weak middles, with a payoff that only serves as an ad for the next possible movie/show.

Captain America: The First Avenger is a 2011 American superhero film directed by Joe Johnston, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and stars Chris Evans alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Toby Jones, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, and Stanley Tucci.