One of Georges’ pieces of man-made magic is the automaton. There are pieces of all three of these ideas in Hugo. The plot ultimately has much to do with the history of the movies, and Selznick's genius lies in his expert use of such a visual style to spotlight the role of this highly visual media. A person can create something (Christmas) that then becomes bigger than its creator, for others start co-creating it adding their own contributions to it, just as happened to Christmas. They display the same item in increasingly tight focus or pan across scenes the way a camera might. Selznick hints at the toymaker's hidden identity (inspired by an actual historical figure in the film industry, Georges Méliès) through impressive use of meticulous charcoal drawings that grow or shrink against black backdrops, in pages-long sequences. When I popped it into my computer to play.I sat completely enthralled for a little over two hours watching this fantastic dream called HUGO. he built the automaton, created movies that were like seeing your dreams in the middle of the day, and sold whimsical toys. Winner of five Academy Awards, however, not the best picture award.
To Selznick's credit, the coincidences all feel carefully orchestrated epiphany after epiphany occurs before the book comes to its sumptuous, glorious end. (You can see the Maillardet Automaton that inspired author Brian Selznick in the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.). The automaton HUGO In the mail today, I received the DVD movie HUGO. Hugo comes from a long line of horologists charged with fixing clocks and keeping time, but what he really wants to be is a magician. More spe- cifically, Hugos past, present, and future lies in a machine: an automaton Hugo. This book is about the history of automata (it’s pronounced aw-TOM-ah-tah). Hugo pursues a unique relationship with mechanical technologies. One of my main inspirations for The Invention of Hugo Cabret was a book called Edison’s Eve: A Magical Quest for Mechanical Life by an author named Gaby Wood.
The plot grows as intricate as the robot's gears and mechanisms: Hugo's father dies in a fire at the museum Hugo winds up living in the train station, which brings him together with a mysterious toymaker who runs a booth there, and the boy reclaims the automaton, to which the toymaker also has a connection. And click here to visit a website where you can make your own simple automata out of paper. After his father showed Hugo the robot, the boy became just as obsessed with getting the automaton to function as his father had been, and the man gave his son one of the notebooks he used to record the automaton's inner workings.
Hugo's recently deceased father, a clockmaker, worked in a museum where he discovered an automaton: a human-like figure seated at a desk, pen in hand, as if ready to deliver a message. Twelve-year-old orphan Hugo lives in the walls of a Paris train station at the turn of the 20th century, where he tends to the clocks and filches what he needs to survive.
Here is a true masterpiece-an artful blending of narrative, illustration and cinematic technique, for a story as tantalizing as it is touching.