Hugo is a 2011 film directed by Martin Scorsese that takes place in 1930s Paris. It tells the story of Hugo Cabret, an orphan boy who lives alone in a train station and is trying to repair his late father's automaton. He gets caught stealing parts by Georges Méliès, the owner of a toy shop. Hugo works to earn his notebook back and discovers Méliès was actually a famous early filmmaker. The film won 5 Oscars for its visuals, production design, and technical achievements in bringing the world of 1930s Paris and early cinema to life.

1. Southeast University
School of Science and Engineering
Movie Review
ENG 1002(Intermediate Composition)
Prepared for:
Homayra Binte Bahar
Lecturer, English Depertment
Southeast University
Prepared by:
Tanzila Islam
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Batch: 30th
CSE Department
Zunayed Shahriar
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Batch: 30th
CSE Department
Submission Date: July 1, 2012

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Movie Review
 Title : HUGO
 Release Date : November 23, 2011
 Country : United States
 Language : English
 Director : Martin Scorsese
 Producer : Graham King
Timothy Headington
Johnny Depp
 Starring : Asa Butterfield
Chloe Grace Moretz
Sacha Baron Cohen
Jude Law
Ben kingsley
Helen McCrory
 Story : Brian Selznick’s novel “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”
 Music : Howard Shore
 Cinematography : Robert Richardson
 Editor : Thelma Schoonmaker
 Studio : GK Films. Infinitum Nihil
 Running Time : 128 Minute
 Budget : $170 million
 Rate of success : Blockbuster
 Rating (IMDB) : 7.8/10 from 102,511 users
 Profit : Hugo grossed $73,864,507 in North America $110,843,12
else elsewhere for a worldwide total of $184,707,636.

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Awards: HUGO won 5 Oscars, Another 37 wins & 88 Nominations.
Award Date of ceremony Category Recipients &
nominees
Result
Academy Awards 26 February,2012
Best
Cinematography
Robert Richardson Won
Best Art Direction
Dante Ferretti,
Francesca Lo
Schiavo
Won
Best Visual Effects
Robert Legato,
Joss Williams, Ben
Grossmann and
Alex Henning
Won
Best Sound Editing
Philip Stockton
and Eugene
Gearty
Won
Best Sound Mixing
Tom Fleischman
and John Midgley
Won
Alliance of Women
Film Journalists
10 January, 2012 Best Editing
Thelma
Schoonmaker
Won
Art Directors Guild 4 February, 2012 Period Film Dante Ferratti Won
Australian
Academy of
Cinema and
Television Arts
Awards
27 January, 2012 Best Director Martin Scorsese Won
Bafta 12 February,2012
Best Sound
Philip Stockton,
Eugene Gearty,
Tom Fleishman
and John Midgley
Won
Best Production
Design
Dante Ferretti and
Francesca Lo
Schiavo
Won
Detroit Film Critics
Society
16 December,2011
Best Director Martin Scorsese Won
Florida Film Critics
Circle Awards
19 December,
2011
Best Production
Design/Art
Direction
Dante Ferretti and
Francesca Lo
Schiavo
Won
Best Director Martin Scorsese
Won

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Las Vegas Film
Critics Society
13 December,
2011
Best Film Editing
Thelma
Schoonmaker
Won
Best Youth in Film Asa Butterfield Won
Phoenix Film
Critics Society
27 December,
2011
Best Production
Design
Dante Ferretti Won
Best Visual Effects Robert Legato
Won
Satellite Awards 19 December,
2011
Best Visual Effects Robert Legato Won
Best Production
Design
Dante Ferretti Won
Saturn Awards 20 June, 2012 Best Director Martin Scorsese Won
Best Art Direction Dante Derretti Won
Young Artist
Award
6 May, 2012 Best Performance
in a Feature Film -
Leading Young
Actress
Chloë Grace
Moretz
Won
Oscar 2012
Best Achievement
in Art Direction
Dante Ferretti,
Francesca Lo
Schiavo
Won
Best
Cinematography
Robert
Richardson
Best Sound Editing
Philip Stockton,
Eugene Gearty
Best Sound Mixing
Tom Fleischman,
John Midgley
Best Visual Effects
Robert Legato
Joss Williams
Ben Grossmann
Alex Henning
BSFC 2011
Best
Cinematography
Robert
Richardson
2nd
Place
Best Film
Editing
Thelma
Schoonmaker
LAFCA 2011 Best Director Martin Scorsese 2nd
Place

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Critical analysis (personal review)
 Discussion of the story of the movie: Hugo Cabret, a 12-year-old boy, lived with
his widowed father, a master clockmaker in Paris. Hugo's father often took him to
see films and his father particularly loved the films of Georges Méliès. Hugo's
father died in a museum fire, and Hugo was taken away by his uncle,
an alcoholic watchmaker who was responsible for maintaining the clocks in the
railway station Gare Montparnasse. His uncle taught him to take care of the
clocks and then disappeared.
Hugo lived between the walls of the station, maintaining the clocks, stealing food
and working on his father's most ambitious project, repairing a broken
automaton, a mechanical man who is supposed to write with a pen. Hugo wanted
to fix this automaton. He steals mechanical parts to repair the automaton, but he
was caught by a toy store owner, Papa Georges, who took Hugo's notebook from
him.
To recover the notebook, Hugo followed the shopkeeper to his house and met
Georges' goddaughter Isabelle. She promised to help Hugo. The next day,
Georges gave some ashes to Hugo, referring to them as the notebook's remains,
but Isabelle informed him that the notebook was not burned. Finally he agreed
that Hugo may earn the notebook back by working for him until he pays for all
the things he stole from the shop. Hugo started to work in the toy shop, and in
his time off manages to fix the automaton, but it was still missing one part—a
heart–shaped key.
Hugo introduced Isabelle to the movies, which her godfather had never let her
see. Isabelle turned out to have the key to the automaton. When they used the
key to activate the automaton, it produces a drawing of a film scene, signed by
Georges Méliès. Hugo remembered it is the film his father always talked about as

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the first film he ever saw (Voyage to the Moon) and Isabelle recognized the
signature as being the name of her godfather, Papa Georges and both of them
take it to Isabelle’s home for an explanation.
Hugo showed Georges' wife Mama Jeanne the drawing made by the automaton,
but she wouldn’t tell them anything and makes them hide in a room when
Georges was coming home. While hiding, Isabelle and Hugo find a secret cabinet
and accidentally release pictures and screen boards of Georges' creations - the
noise attracts Georges, who is deeply upset and throws Hugo out, feeling
betrayed.
Hugo, Isabelle and Tabard went to Georges' home, and Tabard was able to
convince Jannne to show “Voyage to the Moon”. As they finish watching the film,
Georges appears and explains how he came to make movies, invented the special
effects, and how he lost faith in films when World War I began, being forced to
sell his films as chemicals to get money, and opening the toy shop to survive. He
also believed the automaton he created was lost in the museum fire and nothing
remains of his life's work.
Hugo goes back to the station to get the automaton, to surprise Georges, but he
was cornered by the station inspector and his dog. Hugo tried much to escape
but at last he was trapped by the inspector and the automaton was thrown onto
the railway tracks. Climbing onto the tracks, Hugo was almost run over by an
approaching train but the officer saved him. While Hugo pleads with the officer,
Georges arrives and says Hugo is in his care. The officer lets him go.
At the end of the movie, Georges introduced a tribute ceremony to his movies
with Tabard announcing that over 80 films have been recovered and restored.
Georges thanks Hugo for his actions and invited the audience to "follow his
dreams".

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 Settings (venue): The movie was shot in Paris. According to the plot’s timeline
the situation & statement of Paris in that time was perfectly Showed in the
movie. And viewers can easily imagine that time’s situation of Paris. This credit
really goes to the crews of the movie.
 Construction (positive/negative): The movie’s construction is really admirable.
The movie was shot in Paris which is the Plot’s required place. And the venue is
really appropriate for the movie. Creating the situation of a time such 1931 is too
difficult. But it’s construction really able to give the real feel to the viewers of the
time. The costumes were also very appropriate. The stuffs which were used on
that time were appeared in the movie. The graphical effect of the movie was
awesome. In a word, the movie is constructed very well and viewers enjoyed that
very much.
 Acting: The screenplay of the movie was awesome. The performers of this movie
are quite talented. So they were able to act in the movie very spontaneously. The
hero character of the movie “Hugo cabret” was played very flexibly by a
newcomer “Asa Butterfield”. He acted just like an experienced actor. His
supporting character “Isabelle” played by “Chloe Grace Moretz” was simply
negotiable. “The Inspector” character which was played by “Sacha Baron Cohen”.
His acting added a new sphere in the movie. And “Ben kingsley” who played as
“George Méliès” gave the heart in the movie.
 Dialogue: The dialogues of the movie were appropriate according to the plot’s
timeline. The dialogues were very gentle as we speak. No slangs were used in the
movie. In a word, the dialogues of the movie were simply awesome.

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 Finishing of the movie: This movie maintains its sequence serially. Hugo was an
orphan boy. His father had a dream to fix automaton. But his dream was not
fulfilled. Hugo decided to fix his father’s most ambitious project by helping a
notebook which had given from his father. To fulfill his ambition, he struggled
much and faced many obstacles one after another. But he did not give up. At the
end of the movie he was able to reach his goal.
 Moral justification: In this movie, we see Hugo’s willing & his hard working. He
had many obstacles but he didn’t give up. He struggled much & at last reached
his goal. From this, anyone can learn how to cross all obstacles & reach the goal
perfectly.
 Conclusion: From this term paper we have reviewed a Movie named “HUGO”
which is a very enjoyable & instructive movie. We have chosen this movie
because there is something to learn from this movie.