Like the novel's real historical inspiration, Papa Georges is actually the long-forgotten turn-of-the-century French film pioneer Georges Melies. Together, they discover that a necklace given to Isabelle by her godmother, Jeanne (Helen McCrory), is the key that unlocks the automaton to work. Hugo reluctantly shows her into his world and his automaton project. In trying to get it back to finish his father's work, Hugo befriends Georges's charming goddaughter Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz of Kick Ass and Let Me In). Seeing it sparks unspoken emotion in Georges and he takes it away from Hugo. When he's caught stealing at the toy shop one day, Georges discovers a small notebook Hugo keeps of his father's sketches and plans for repairing the automaton.
He survives by stealing food and mechanical parts from the reclusive Papa Georges (Sir Ben Kingsley), a toy shop owner, while dodging the ardent station inspector, Gustav (Sacha Baron Cohen), who has a penchant for dispatching orphan thieves. Having tragically lost his father to a museum fire, he is determined to finish their shared work project of repairing an abandoned "automaton," a mechanical man who writes with a pen, in hopes that it may offer him a message from his departed father. Son of a master clockmaker (Jude Law) and nephew to a watchmaker (Ray Winstone), Hugo, unbeknownst to the public and shopkeepers striding within the station, maintains all of the station clocks. Young Hugo (Asa Butterfield of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) is an orphan who lives within the walls and pipes of the city railway station in 1931. Based on Brian Selznick's Caldecott Medal-winning 2007 historical-fiction novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (adapted by John Logan of Gladiator fame) , we are introduced to a very different type of Parisian Quasimodo. Hugo, while telling a very Parisian story for a proud Italian-American guy from New York City, is a love letter to the wonder of the original silent films of the early 20th century.
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Watch Hugo and you will see an aficionado of old films and cinema history making a movie that has a soft spot for just that. After first glance, you might think he's getting a lot of money for this or that he's got grandkids tugging on his arms.
Martin Scorsese not only made a family film, but a family film with all of the bells and whistles of 3D. That would be like a food critic eating macaroni and cheese out of the box.
You don't think he would ever get chippy with bright happy colors, let alone hopping on the bandwagon of shooting in 3D. He himself has been an authority in restoring old films and loves the medium. From a cinematic standpoint, when you think of Martin Scorsese, you think of traditional old-school filmmaking with movies that are intimate, character-driven, and even quiet in their delivery. If you are like everyone else, you think of blood splatters, gangsters, money, New York diction in the form of Joe Pesci profanity, cops, and more gangsters. When you think of Martin Scorsese's movies, you don't think of warmhearted children's novels.
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