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Hugo

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Hugo	label	Hugo
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Hugo	comment	Hugo is a 2011 adventure film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by John Logan and co-produced by Johnny Depp. Based on Brian Selznick's Caldecott Medal-winning children's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the film stars Asa Butterfield, ChloÃ« Grace Moretz, and Ben Kingsley, with Sacha Baron Cohen, Christopher Lee, Jude Law, Helen McCrory, Ray Winstone and Michael Stuhlbarg in supporting roles. The film is notable for being Scorsese's first family-oriented film as well as his first shot in 3D, and is considered the director's love letter to silent cinema.The film centers on Hugo Cabret (Butterfield), an orphan boy who lives in a train station in 1930s Paris and whose only companion is an automaton discovered by his late father. He devotes his life to making sure the clocks run on time and to gradually repairing the automaton, under the belief that the message it is designed to write is a message from his father.One day, he gets caught stealing a toy from Papa Georges (Kingsley), a melancholy man who runs a toy store inside the station. He finds the notebook Hugo carries containing drawings of the automaton by his father. Papa Georges takes the notebook, threatening to burn it. With the help of Papa Georges' goddaughter Isabelle (Moretz), Hugo tries to get the notebook back and use it to discover the secret of the automaton. Along the way, he discovers the secret of Papa Georges, including his real name.Selznick also wrote a companion book to the film, The Hugo Movie Companion, about how his novel was adapted to the screen.Not to be confused with the Hugo video game series.
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Hugo / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
Hugo / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Lisette the flower girl was not in the original book.
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Hugo / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Hugo / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Martin Scorsese himself appears as a photographer during the flashback sequence, and Brian Selznick (who wrote the book) appears as a student in the party sequence near the end.
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Hugo / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Hugo / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The trailers showed the automaton functioning after Hugo discovers that Isabelle has its key, along with the kids finding Georges' artwork for his films.
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Hugo / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Hugo / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Despite setting himself as a Grumpy Old Man for the first half of the movie, Papa Georges slowly becomes more approachable and interesting to the child characters as more is discovered about him, namely that he's Georges MÃ©liÃ¨s.
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Hugo / int_191535aa	type	Eiffel Tower Effect
Hugo / int_191535aa	comment	Eiffel Tower Effect: Within the first minute of the movie we see the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower, and the latter is visible from the main clock on the train station.
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Hugo / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Hugo / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The trailer makes it look like a light comedy, with lots of slapstick from Sacha Baron Cohen. The film is actually fairly serious and melancholy (though still on a family-friendly level), and Cohen is a side character with an unexpectedly dramatic side to his story.
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Hugo / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Hugo / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: several: Michael Pitt as a projectionist. Creator Cameo: Martin Scorsese himself appears as a photographer during the flashback sequence, and Brian Selznick (who wrote the book) appears as a student in the party sequence near the end. In-Universe, Georges MÃ©liÃ¨s in many of his films.
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Hugo / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Hugo / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Hugo could've potentially gotten more information about the automaton much sooner if he'd been honest and told Georges about it at the beginning of the film.
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Hugo / int_21dd66de	type	Stock Clock Hand Hang
Hugo / int_21dd66de	comment	Stock Clock Hand Hang: The movie shows the iconic part of Safety Last! where the main character hangs from clock hands in a movie theater. Later, Hugo escapes from the Inspector by crawling out of a large clock and hanging from its hands. The scene is also shown on the poster.
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Hugo / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
Hugo / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: Rene Tabard to Georges MÃ©liÃ¨s, since Tabard met him as a little boy and has dedicated his life to studying old movies.
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Hugo / int_25b19f64	type	Cute Bookworm
Hugo / int_25b19f64	comment	Cute Bookworm: Isabelle is a friendly, adorable little girl with an enthusiasm for books.
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Hugo / int_25c7b33a	type	Cruel to Be Kind
Hugo / int_25c7b33a	comment	Cruel to Be Kind: Twice. Georges giving Hugo a handkerchief of ashes as proof he burned his notebook (though Isabelle later contradicts this by stating that Georges faked the ashes) to teach the boy life is cruel, and the Inspector sending the children he catches to an orphanage. Averted on both accounts, as the men are really just taking their pain out on children.
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Hugo / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Hugo / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: The Station Inspector has a habit of repeating what he is saying at least three times whenever he is making an accusation in slightly different words, presumably because it's the only time he gets to show off his vocabulary, as in another point he tries to pretend to have a wide understanding of poetry — he would really like to come off as intelligent and sophisticated.
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Hugo / int_27074b46	type	Holding Hands
Hugo / int_27074b46	comment	Holding Hands: Hugo gives Isabelle's hand a squeeze when she's worried about Papa Georges.
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Hugo / int_295b6800	type	Real Footage Re-creation
Hugo / int_295b6800	comment	Real Footage Re-creation: The film features recreations of the early silent film work of Georges MÃ©liÃ¨s. A dream sequence also reenacts the famous 1895 Montparnasse derailment.
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Hugo / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Hugo / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Papa Georges: Actually Georges MÃ©liÃ¨s, acclaimed film director from the silent movie era, who has lived for decades with the heartbreak of believing that his life's work is all gone and meant nothing. The Station Inspector: His leg was crippled in World War I, and beneath his stern, relentless persona is a lonely man who is harsh on orphans because it reminds him of the pain of being one himself.
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Hugo / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Hugo / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: According to MÃ©liÃ¨s, this was the reaction of the Lumiere brothers to their new-fangled "moving pictures."
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Hugo / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Hugo / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Despite often being a Jerkass and getting kicked in his injured leg, Gustave still helps Hugo off the train tracks.
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Hugo / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Hugo / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: In the book, Hugo eventually assumes the identity of Professor H. Alcofrisbas, which is given to him by Georges Melizes while he's performing magic tricks for an audience. This is nowhere to be seen in the movie, presumably since Professor Alcofrisbas writing the book the film is based on wouldn't have any meaning on its events. Some minor characters, including Etienne (so that Hugo and Isabelle could have more independence) and Hugoâ€™s school friends Antoine and Louis.
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Hugo / int_34642505	type	The Edwardian Era
Hugo / int_34642505	comment	The Edwardian Era: The flashback scenes take place here and in the very late Victorian era. The story proper takes place in 1931.
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Hugo / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
Hugo / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Extremely idealistic, and easily the most optimistic film in Martin Scorsese's body of work. Despite the tragic pasts of most of the main characters, they all in some way or another romantics who dream big and hope for a happy ending, with the ultimate moral being to share in each others' dreams.
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Hugo / int_3f13413a	type	Staggered Zoom
Hugo / int_3f13413a	comment	Staggered Zoom: On the train in the first dream sequence, directly referencing the way it was portrayed in the book.
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Hugo / int_40c4d32b	type	Pick a Card
Hugo / int_40c4d32b	comment	Pick a Card: After Papa Georges starts teaching Hugo card tricks, he's shown practicing in his room, holding up a card to the automaton and asking, "Is this your card?"
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Hugo / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
Hugo / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: The tagline spoils the plot, to those aware of early film history: "One of the most legendary directors of our time" refers to Papa Georges' real identity.
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Hugo / int_43a831db	type	Epic Tracking Shot
Hugo / int_43a831db	comment	Epic Tracking Shot: The opening sequence, which in a single shot goes from an overview of Paris, homes into the train station, swoops down to the doors ground level, zooms through the bustle of the station, then zooms into a large clock within it, revealing the first glimpse of the titular protagonist's face as he looks through it.
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Hugo / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Hugo / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Isabelle, by her Godparents, Papa Georges and Mama Jeanne. And in the finale, Hugo by them as well.
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Hugo / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Hugo / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Hugo experiences a nightmare where his body turns into the automaton, bit by bit.
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Hugo / int_532a8261	type	Bookworm
Hugo / int_532a8261	comment	Bookworm: Isabelle loves reading, and befriends Hugo hoping to have an adventure like the ones in her novels.
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Hugo / int_564caaae	type	Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure
Hugo / int_564caaae	comment	Hugo himself gets this to some degree. In the book, he's a little more of a self-centered jerk to Isabella at first, not being used to trusting others. He even goes so far as to steal the key for the automaton off her neck, leading to them briefly becoming hostile to one another when she chases after it to get it back. In the movie, Hugo simply explains why he needs the key, and Isabelle is more than willing to help him.
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Hugo / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Hugo / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Hugo gets hit with two of them back-to-back. One involving him getting hit by a train and the other where he turns into an Automaton. It's a little... jarring.
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Hugo / int_5fdf73bc	type	Photographic Memory
Hugo / int_5fdf73bc	comment	Photographic Memory: Monsieur Labisse knows the exact location not only of every book in his shop, but also the Film Academy Library as well.
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Hugo / int_6068c76b	type	Clock Punk
Hugo / int_6068c76b	comment	Clock Punk: The massive station clocktower, Papa Georges' clockwork toys, Hugo's old home filled with clockwork, the clockwork automaton, and the clockwork leg brace. The heavy use of fantastical clockwork can make one forget that the film is supposed to be set in a fairly realistic 1931 rather than a Victorian sci-fi setting.
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Hugo / int_60c90bd5	type	Orphan's Ordeal
Hugo / int_60c90bd5	comment	Orphan's Ordeal: After his father dies, Hugo has to live with his abusive uncle, who forces him to quit school and work as his assistant. Hugo eventually has no choice but to steal food to eat when his uncle vanishes/drowns.
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Hugo / int_63b12059	type	Villainous Friendship
Hugo / int_63b12059	comment	Villainous Friendship: The Inspector seems to have one with the man who takes children to the orphanage, talking about his wife's leaving him, and later asks Gustave to be his child's godfather.
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Hugo / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Hugo / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: All of the talk of the importance of early film and its preservation is Scorsese himself speaking to you. Michael Stuhlbarg even grew out his eyebrows for his character in tribute to him.
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Hugo / int_6c62b1a8	type	Covered in Gunge
Hugo / int_6c62b1a8	comment	Covered in Gunge: Oh dear, the Station Inspector is about to slide into a gigantic cake. Then promptly subverted, as he winds up crashing into the band instead.
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Hugo / int_6f66bef7	type	But Not Too Foreign
Hugo / int_6f66bef7	comment	But Not Too Foreign: Hugo Cabret is half-English (his mother is mentioned as being from Coventry).
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Hugo / int_71268450	type	Adaptation Title Change
Hugo / int_71268450	comment	Adaptation Title Change: The title was shortened from the novel's The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
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Hugo / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
Hugo / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The Station Inspector, who is a standard Punch-Clock Villain in the original novel. Here, he gets his own subplot about being a cripple who pines for the station's flower saleswoman, and the reveal that he grew up as an orphan like Hugo.
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Hugo / int_73dd919c	type	Genteel Interbellum Setting
Hugo / int_73dd919c	comment	Genteel Interbellum Setting: The main plot is set in interwar Paris circa 1931.
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Hugo / int_77cd64fa	type	Abled in the Adaptation
Hugo / int_77cd64fa	comment	Abled in the Adaptation: Rene Tabard is shown wearing an eyepatch in the book's illustrations, indicating he lost his eye at some point in his life. In the movie, he has both of his eyes, though he does wear a pair of glasses.
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Hugo / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Hugo / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Claude, Hugo's abusive uncle, who is only shown either teaching Hugo how to maintain the station's clocks (which isn't often) and drinking. He ends up disappearing early on and found dead later on, almost assuredly because of this habit..
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Hugo / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Hugo / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Hugo's crimes are listed as: "Trespass, theft, pilfering, littering... mmmmlering... walking about... pilloryingnote An archaic way to say public derision, the victim presumably being Gustave himself..."
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Hugo / int_81a1960f	type	Silence Is Golden
Hugo / int_81a1960f	comment	Silence Is Golden: It's at least not nearly as talky as most children's holiday films typically are.
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Hugo / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Hugo / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Madame Emilie and Monsieur Frick, the cafe owner and newspaper vendor, respectively. In the book, their only contributions were to call for Hugo's arrest by the Station Inspector, as they recognize him as having stolen their respective wares during his time in the station. The film shows them partaking in friendly interaction with each other and Inspector Gustave, and when Gustave apprehends Hugo, they argue in favor of his release as they aren't aware he's done anything wrong. Hugo himself gets this to some degree. In the book, he's a little more of a self-centered jerk to Isabella at first, not being used to trusting others. He even goes so far as to steal the key for the automaton off her neck, leading to them briefly becoming hostile to one another when she chases after it to get it back. In the movie, Hugo simply explains why he needs the key, and Isabelle is more than willing to help him.
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Hugo / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Hugo / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: At the end of the movie, even though Papa Georges and Hugo have developed a close relationship, the notebook that Georges took from Hugo never turns back up. This is an artifact of adaptation compression; in the book, it turns out the ashes Georges presented were faked and Isabelle manages to recover it, though it's debatable whether or not the item still warranted relevance by that point. Likewise, in the movie, Isabelle also says that the ashes were fake, though Hugo still doesn't get it back.
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Hugo / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
Hugo / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: At the end of the movie, Gustave remarks that he is a "fully functioning man" and asks his girlfriend for corroboration.
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Hugo / int_9673d7f0	type	Orphan's Plot Trinket
Hugo / int_9673d7f0	comment	Orphan's Plot Trinket: The automaton, passed down to Hugo from his late father, who had uncovered it from in a museum from an unknown source. Hugo developed an obsession in making it functional using stolen spare parts and his own ingenuity, believing it to contain a final important message from his father. It doesn't, but it does turn out to be way more important to Papa Georges.
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Hugo / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Hugo / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Inspector's concern that a tool dropped by Hugo (that he thought was dropped by Hugo's drunken Uncle) might have injured a child is another early sign that he isn't simply a child-hating villain.
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Hugo / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Hugo / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: Papa Georges tells Hugo that life has taught him happy endings only happen in movies.
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Hugo / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
Hugo / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: A few of the scenes in the station had their music provided by a band in a restaurant, most notably the first chase scene between Hugo and the Station Inspector.
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Hugo / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Hugo / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The Station Inspector's initial conversation with Lisette is played for broad laughs, until his leg brace suddenly locks up again. Cue the very not-funny revelation that his leg was badly injured in fighting during World War I, which is the first sign of his Hidden Depths.
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Hugo / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: The Station Inspector is a fairly minor character in the book, serving as an occasional antagonist that Hugo has to evade a few times, but otherwise contributed nothing to the actual plot. In the movie, his role is more fleshed-out, he's given a proper name, and his own subplot to make him more of a proper character than a mere obstacle.
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Hugo / int_a66109e3	comment	The Un-Smile: The Inspector pulls one when trying to speak with the florist he has a crush on. At the end of the film, after they've gotten together, he claims to have "mastered three of them."
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Hugo / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Sort of. The character of Hugo is entirely fictional, but the life of Georges MÃ©liÃ¨s as presented in the film is pretty accurate. Hugo's clockwork boy is based on Maillardet's automaton, a real-life writing automaton whose history parallels its movie counterpart: It was built by a mechanical genius, damaged in a fire, donated to a museum, had its origins forgotten, and was eventually repaired by a clockwork enthusiast, whereupon its automated drawings provided a clue to its maker's identity.
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Hugo / int_aa87556f	comment	Orange/Blue Contrast: To an extremely deliberate sense. Beyond merely lighting or a Color Wash, the sets and costumes were specifically designed to be broadly orange and blue tones. This ends up lending a stylized, Deliberately Monochrome effect highly reminiscent of the black/white films this movie itself celebrates, just with a modern tinge.
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Hugo / int_aaedd10	comment	Given Name Reveal: Papa Georges' name is revealed when the automaton signs its picture Georges Melies and Isabelle recognizes it. Finding the significance of it, on the other hand, requires a trip to the Film Academy Library.
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Hugo / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Hugo is having a nightmare where he gets killed by a train, which then derails and crashes through the station window. (The crash is based on a real one, and replicated in exact detail.) He has a false awakening in where he turns into the automaton. Then he wakes up for real. Later in the film, Hugo jumps in front of an approaching train, after he drops the automaton onto the tracks. The train crew reacts exactly as they did in the dream, but the Station Inspector pulls Hugo off of the tracks, and the train doesn't crash.
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Hugo / int_b3acb52a	comment	Innocent Flower Girl: Lisette, who sells flowers in the train station the Inspector is sweet on.
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Hugo / int_b4a7b5ef	comment	The Queen's Latin: The entire cast speaks with British accents despite all of the characters being French. The actual French that they do speak, however, is spoken with a French accent. All of the written text is also in French.
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Hugo / int_bea43fc4	type	Malignant Plot Tumor
Hugo / int_bea43fc4	comment	Malignant Plot Tumor: The movie looks like it will be about mechanics and trains (and the former does play an important part of the plot). But then Hugo mentions seeing the film adaptation of a book and we eventually learn that this is really a movie about... movies. This is one of the cases of a "benign" tumor, as the film takes pains to show that movies are like machines with many moving parts, and the transition works quite seamlessly.
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Hugo / int_c0afd51a	comment	Evil Cripple: Played with where the Station Inspector is concerned - his bad leg is treated as one of his biggest humanizing elements.
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Hugo / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Hugo / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Many to classic silent films. Hugo hanging off of the clock hands is a shout out to Safety Last! by Harold Lloyd, which is also the film that the two kids sneak into the theater to view. Hugo's nightmare about the train crash recreates a famous 1895 photograph◊ of a train that had crashed through the back of Paris' Gare Montparnasse (the very station in which the film takes place). If seen in 3D, the train scene is also a shout to the first film ever made, a train pulls into a station with the train coming towards the camera, which is also featured in the film. Isabelle references Sydney Carton, Heathcliff and Jean Valjean. If you listen carefully during scenes taking place in the train station, you can hear two songs that are present in The Grand Illusion.
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Hugo / int_c960826	comment	Supporting Protagonist: While Hugo remains the point-of-view character for much of the movie, much of the conflicts centering around him are resolved by the second half, turning him into one of these for the new main focus of the story: Papa Georges, aka Georges MÃ©liÃ¨s.
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Hugo / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Hugo / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Easily the lightest, most cheerful film ever directed by Scorsese, which is quite rare considering the usual content of his films. While it still has its fair share of dark moments, it's PG and never goes beyond the PG range of content. A cherry on top is that it's one of the few films made by him to get an Earn Your Happy Ending.
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Hugo / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Hugo / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Georges keeps calling Hugo a thief, all while keeping his notebook. In his defense, though, he didn't think the notebook belonged to Hugo at first.
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Hugo / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Oh, quite a bit of it. For example, the Automaton which was taken by Hugo's father, just so happened to draw a picture from the movie Hugo's father saw. And it just so happened that Hugo lived in the same train station where the man who made both the Automaton and the film worked. Justified though - Hugo believes that the world is a giant machine. There are no coincidences, but only parts moving as they should.
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Hugo / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: The Station Inspector is the closest thing the film has to a major antagonist for Hugo, as his profession puts a direct threat to Hugo's livelihood. He is also the prime source of comic relief, as his thwarted attempts at doing his job properly and catching Hugo often leave him without dignity.
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Hugo / int_e394c5d	comment	Color Wash: As in-universe Aluminium Christmas Trees: clips of old silent movies played in the film were hand-coloured, creating a dreamy, phantasmagorical atmosphere.
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Hugo / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Hugo / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: According to The Other Wiki, sets and costumes for MÃ©liÃ¨s' movies were painted in shades of gray (not in their natural colors, as depicted) to avoid unpredictable tones in black-and-white film. The film take artistic licenses with MÃ©liÃ¨s' life. In reality, he sold his props to open a traditional theater, and his films are collected by the government to recycle for silver. The real Isabelle is called Madeleine, and actually Georges' biological grand-daughter. Jeanne is not Georges' first and only wife, however.
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Hugo / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Hugo / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: When Hugo is going to be run over by an approaching train the Station Inspector pulls him off of the tracks just in time.
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Hugo / int_f178203a	type	Inspector Javert
Hugo / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: The Station Inspector that Hugo spends the entire film hiding from. By the end, though, he's taken a level in kindness.
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Hugo / int_f1d13e39	comment	Insult Misfire: When Gustave yells at an orphan about his "filthy mitts," the policeman takes offense, thinking Gustave is making disparaging comments about his wife.
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Hugo / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Bookworm Isabelle clearly enjoys trotting out ten-dollar words. She compliments Hugo when he lets loose with one of his own.
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Hugo / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: After spending decades bitter and sad, believing his life's work was all for nothing, Georges finally receives the acclaim he deserves as someone who helped make cinema what it is.
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