1/27/2024 0 Comments The clock movie![]() Scorsese, like Robert Zemekis and Bob Gale before, reference that iconic Harold Lloyd moment in Safety Last! (1923), as Hugo hangs from a clock face. Sacha Baron Cohen's station inspector is occasionally funny, and his character seems to be filtered through both Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau, and Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, but he just doesn't seem to really progress at all, and feels almost like a filler character. The film shows love for silent cinema, and particularly the magic of Melies. After befriending a young girl, Isabelle (Chloe Moretz), he finally gets the automaton working, and it opens up a mystery that leads to the forgotten cinema of Melies (Ben Kingsley), now working on a store in the station. As an orphan, Hugo hides in the rafters of a train station, maintaining the clocks that his drunken uncle used to do. Hugo's main mission is to get the object working. It was a project that they worked on together, but never finished it. We are introduced to Hugo (Asa Butterfield), a young man whose father left him a automaton after his death. Set in 1930's Paris, the main focus of this cinematic love is the work of the first movie magician, Georges Melies. Conversely, Martin Scorsese, a well-known cinephile, delights with his love of early European silent cinema, in his often beautiful 'children's' film, Hugo. Strangely, it took a French film maker, Michel Hazanavicius, to release a movie that pays homage to early, silent American cinema (The Artist). ![]() There must be something unifying in our globes collective consciousness, as 2011 saw two films that looked back at the cinematic past.
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