Week 10

• Hugo is a 2011 historical adventure drama film directed and co-produced by Martin Scorsese. 

        

• setting:industrial  revolution 

       talks a lot about history of movies

•  Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and film director who

        led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest 

        days of cinema.

        

       → Hugo is Scorsese's first film shot in 3D 

•       illusion 

            delusion

• Substitution splices

       

• Multiple exposures

          

• Time -lapse photography

          

• Hand-painted color

        

• A trip to the Moon is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès.

       

•     Safety last!

       

•  the whole world was one big machine

      

     

       

• dog crippled leg - not in the novel, in movie

       

• they can use the difference media to tell story

• conflict: Who am I?

       Hugo Notebook 

       

        

• climax-all the truth revealed

       Fix the automaton for himself

      

• resolution:happy endings not only exist in the movies 

       Georges Méliès Tribute Scene

       

• Hugo-purpose in life

         

          

       own identity

         

       parts of something to be here

•    imagine: 

1. machine
2. train
3. clocks-time & past both Hugo and George try to run away from
4. automation-fix it he will be happy again 
5. the key -solve the puzzle by heart

        

• The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

• screening report