And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.” Director Martin Scorsese’s film treatment, Hugo (Paramount, November 2011 PG), evinces this philosophy from its opening sequence, in which a complicated clockwork system turns into an equally bright and busy time-lapse shot of nighttime Paris.Īs in the novel, we’re introduced to orphan Hugo in 1931 Paris as he’s caught stealing mechanical toy parts from a train station’s toy shop. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason.
They have the exact number and type of parts they need. In Brian Selznick’s Caldecott Medal–winning novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, protagonist Hugo muses, “Machines never have any extra parts.
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