2011 movie about the son of a clockmaker

The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a novel that could only exist in the twentieth century and beyond because it assumes visual literacy. Zooms, panning, long shots, and even high-speed chase scenes are all represented in SelznickвЂ™s novel, albeit frame by frame. Using both his own illustrations and stills from silent films, he mimics a silent film-watching experience, right down to early film technique. With The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the only YA book to have won the Caldecott award, Selznick treats the reader to a night at the movies. With his integration of words and pictures, Brian Selznick has created an innovative reading experience unlike any other I have encountered. At first, the two are very suspicious, each calling the other a thief, but as the words and pictures unwind like a reel of film, we see that Hugo will eventually rescue MГ©liГЁs from his obscurity and feelings of purposelessness, and MГ©liГЁs will give Hugo a home and a future. This old man turns out to be none other than George MГ©liГЁs, one of the very first filmmakers, made famous for his film A Trip to the Moon and inventor of HugoвЂ™s mechanical man. While stealing mechanical parts from a toy booth in the station, he is caught by the old man who works there. The son of a clockmaker, he is secretly trying to reconstruct a mechanical man found by his father in a museum attic before his untimely death. Summary: Hugo Cabret is an orphan living in the walls of the Paris central train station in the early 1930s.

The invention of Hugo Cabret: A novel in words and pictures.

2011 movie about the son of a clockmaker