#the invention of hugo Cabret

[thatsluttytiefling]

If I had a nickel for every movie where A Trip to the Moon was a major motif, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

[cedarbookhs]

One of my favourite micro-genres, especially growing up, was books about kids or teens running away from home and living in unusual places. Some of these are more serious and involve leaving abusive homes. Others, the home life and excuse for leaving is entirely perfunctory and the adventure is the point. The common theme is that the kid leaves voluntarily (isn’t stranded somewhere, but goes there specifically) and then ends up living independently in some unique setting that gives the story a large part of its identity.

My Side of the Mountain — inside a tree in the Catskills

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler — the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maniac Magee — inside a buffalo house in the zoo, in a baseball stadium, and more

The Invention of Hugo Cabret — a grand Parisian train station

notabookbut The Kings of Summer — a homemade shanty in the Ohio woods

Last Sam’s Cage — the Calgary Zoo

The Boxcar Children — a freight car

Suggest more if you can think of any, I know there are lots of other examples.

[tarzinnia]

Capturing Dreams

If the studios persist with their endeavors to disregard humans in favor of machines and the pursuit of profit for the few and paucity for the rest, get used to *The Sound Of Silence, for the synergy will be lost and we'll be alone...with our machines.

An earlier post of mine talked about the lovely film, Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese and its relevance in relation to the ongoing WGA & SAG-AFTRA strikes and continuing in that vein, here's an additional thought or two:

A scene from the film has Isabelle, (pictured above-played by the actress Chloe Grace Moretz) reading to lead Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) an excerpt from a book, The Invention of Dreams.

"The filmmaker Georges Méliès was one of the first to realize that - films had the power - to capture dreams."

While Georges Méliès was a real person; if I recall correctly, the book title was created by author, Brian Selznick, who wrote the original novel from which the movie screenplay was adapted. Apparently there is now a group for writers that takes its name from that fictitious book included in both the novel and the film.

The word synergy is likely overused as a buzzword these days, but it seems apt here. Selznick's writing, Scorcese's direction, actors acting, filmgoers, the writing group mentioned above, and it expands ever outward. The numbers of people involved in this creative output are tied together in so many ways and so many dreams, some of which are yet to be realized. Film technology has changed since the 1930s setting of the story, without a doubt-- but machines cannot be allowed to replace the dreamers, the storytellers, the actors, the humans who labor to capture these dreams.

*The Sound Of Silence (1964, written by Paul Simon; performed by Simon & Garfunkel; Columbia).

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

[frmulcahy]

Sometimes obsessions aren’t forgotten they’re just dormant. I hadn’t watched Hugo (2012) in YEARS and yet somehow 12 year old me was re-awakened and I knew the entire script

[kitoblob]

I just found out that two of my favorite books/series (The Invention of Hugo Cabret + The City of Ember) both have movie adaptations. Ever since PJO and HP (along with TMBS though that one was ok 😋) I've been skeptical, so I don't think I'll be checking them out 😞

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Author: Brian Selznick | Publisher: Scholastic (2007)

[extremelyexh4usted]

me just remembering how in like 5-6th grade i read the invention of hugo cabaret in under 61 min bc it wasn’t exactly an hour so i googled how many words the book had and according to one source it said 133250 so apparently i could read over 2000 words a min and 37 a second. 2 things about that little tangent

1. i will never live that down w myself

2. i will never understand how my parents were that iffy about me being on the neurodivergent spectrum💀💀 bc fuck

[beenbettercomic]

"Plot In The Eye"

I am so glad that Jen got me this book for my birthday.

The movie was enjoyable, but it would never have inspired me to pick up the book. And I'm being very serious about how gorgeous the artwork is. My attempt to copy it does NOT do it justice.

-Jimmy Purcell.

[aerowolf]

I can and will go on for hours about how much of a hidden gem the movie Hugo and the original novel the Invention of Hugo Cabret is..I am completely obsessed and bewildered and it is truly masterpiece

[yippeecheapdvds]

Last week I watched “Hugo” (2011) Adventure/Fantasy

Another 60 cent dvd. I own the book this is based on, and I saw the movie not long after it came out, but I haven’t looked at it since then. I remember really liking the book, and doing a book report on it in third grade.

The movie is good. I liked it. The story was sweet, and they did an excellent job of making it feel magical. Not looking it up, but just based on vibes I’m guessing that British people made this movie. I found the girl’s voice a little annoying but that’s my only real complaint.

6/10

[wlwaerith]

wait wait wait. wait. what if zofeia was never allowed to leave the manor, like a rapunzel-adjacent situation. what if, after her father made her kill lillina, he locked her away unless it was convenient for him to let her out. confining her to her chambers, shutting her away in her own little wing of the house and allowing her to see none but him regularly so he could turn her into his perfect little heiress. his pretty little bargaining chip, the key to further social mobility — because which lesser noble is content to remain lesser?

[just-call-mefr1es]

going insane in my small ass fandoms

[tarzinnia]

Where Hugo, I Go...

Rewatched for the umpteenth time, the lovely film, Hugo (2011). If you haven't seen it, nor read the book by Brian Selznick upon which it is based, please consider a look and a read.

We rewatch films for a variety of reasons, just as we often do for books. Always something new and different to see, to hear, to learn, to experience.

But that wasn't why I put this film on the blog. With the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes, now more than ever, the Martin Scorsese directed piece seems relevant. Here we have the young orphan, Hugo Cabret, living in the train station and maintaining the clocks; the timepieces that make the trains, and presumably society, run on time. Those horological machines are human made and what time represents in the lives of humans is a constant tick tock, tick tock. With every beat of our heart, every breath taken, time passes.

Hugo senses this, as does his young friend, Isabelle. At one point in the film, Isabelle questions the future and what her purpose in life is to be. Hugo thinks for a moment and remarks:

"I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too."

And during their conversation, Hugo also states:

"Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do… Maybe it's the same with people. If you lose your purpose… it's like you're broken."

Turning that scene over in my mind and thinking about the plot (w/o spoiling too much, it is a wonderful homage to humans and art and film and history and human connections) and the ongoing strikes...but...

How is it that we humans have so readily turned the machines into the masters and the humans who created them into the extra parts?

This marvelous film would be nothing without the humans who dreamed and created and built and moved and loved it into being along with the original work upon which it was based. The humans aren't broken, the system is. The studios/corporations must recognize the labor that gives purpose to our lives and place the technology in the place wherein it serves the greater good before time runs out.

I could contemplate this film and its themes for a long time, it is a real gem to view and think about in the context of the past, the present, and the future. Hats off to all involved.

[araekniarchive]

@sunsbleeding, 'Come lay with me and look at the sky' [words only] (full artwork)

Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Louise Miller (x)

Hiller Goodspeed, You Can't Waste Time

Nia Vardalos, Tiny Beautiful Things

@sioltach (x)

@asoftwrongness (via)

Dexter (2006-2013), 4x12: The Getaway

WHAT COLOR ARE YOU? by Sphenoid

His Holiness the Dalai Lama (via)

Gregory Orr, Selected Books of the Beloved

[albatris]

here are the books I'm getting rid of

please let me know if you'd like any :3 most of them I haven't read but some are double ups or just things I've inherited from others..... they are free to a good home!

I will have to ship them and I don't wanna ship a whole crate though so you can't just say "I'll take all of them"! just take the ones you'd like please

I'm in australia so depending on where you are I might ask you to toss me some dollars for shipping but then again I might not. I'm a mystery wrapped in an enigma

any that no one wants will be donated or going in my little free library, so no loss either way, I just thought some folks might want dibs haha

and yes I'm finally getting rid of Horrorstör my beloathed. you can take it but be warned. it's one of my least favourite books in the world

hey @albatris! you can reblog this post but no one else can

full list under the cut!

• Uprooted by Naomi Novik

• The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

• All The Rage by Courtney Summerd

• Asking For It by Louise O'Neill

• Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

• The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

• Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

• Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde

• Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

• The Imaginary by A F Harold

• Terrier by Tamora Pierce

• The Magic in the Weaving by Tamora Pierce

• Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• Samurai Champloo Vol 1 by Masaru Gotsubo

• Ouran High School Host Club Vol 1 by Bisco Hatori

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

• Valiant by Holly Black

• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

• Wool by Hugh Howey

• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

• Next by Michael Crichton

• Wildwood by Colin Meloy

• The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly

• The Three Secret Cities by Matthew Reilly

• The Five Greatest Warriors by Matthew Reilly

• There Will Be Lies by Nick Lake

• A Small Madness by Dianne Touchell

• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

• The Underdog by Markus Zusak