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An orphan struggles to survive, all the while working to repair an automaton that prompts an adventure.

Not among the greats, but it’s a quiet, quaint, watchable, movie.

• Trailer 1 – Trailer 2
• Inspired by The Invention of Hugo Cabret – (2007 book), by Brian Selznick

• While not steampunk, it does borrow from that flavor.

• Martin Scorsese on Hugo : Film4 Interview Special Archives

  • by Film4

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• 2023-05-17

• I’ve seen this before, but I don’t know when and no notes were taken.

2023-05-17 ∞

• 9:30 — Casual misandry.
• 12:30 — Setting this in Paris as steampunk.
• 18:45 — London – Coventry
• 20:00 — Forging a key is trivial. They have the damned device, and they could easily rework the surroundings for a key of their own design.

• 27:45 —

  • Sydney Carton is from A Tale of Two Cities – (1859 book), by Charles Dickens
  • Heathcliff is from Wuthering Heights – (1847 book), by Emily Brontë
  • Neverland is from a play called Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up or from Peter and Wendy – (1904 book), by J. M. Barrie
  • Oz is from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – (1900 book), by L. Frank Baum
  • Treasure Island – (1883 book), by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Placing this movie in an alternate-1904 or later.
• 28:30 — David Copperfield – (1850 book), by Charles Dickens
• 30:00 — Jules Verne is most notable for Journey to the Center of the Earth – (1864 book), by Jules Verne
• 32:30 — Where was the part when there was an explanation on how he knows the notebook wasn’t burned?

• 38:45 — Robin Hood

  • See Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood – (1922 movie)
    — Douglas Fairbanks
  • See The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – (1883 book), by Howard Pyle

• 40:00 — Safety Last! – (1923 movie)

  • Which sets this at 1923 or later.
• 41:45 — A Trip to the Moon – (1902 movie)
• 45:00 — Christina Rossetti
• 46:30 — He hasn’t seen her home..
• 47:00 — The fuck is this bumbling freakout.

• 47:45 — Jean Valjean is from Les Misérables – (1862 book), by Victor Hugo

  • God these references are tiring..

• 1:06:30 —

  • Posies
  • Gourdon, Lot
• 1:07:00 — And there is the parental guidance portion of this movie.

• 1:08:30 — I believe it is Académie Française du Cinéma (French Academy of Cinema), which I believe was founded in 1927 and would place this movie on or after 1927.

  • See Cinema of France
  • Perhaps see https://www.academie-cinema.org/
• 1:09:15 — The Invention of Dreams, by René Tabard is fictional.

• 1:24:00 — That makes no fucking sense. That’s the end of the track, and they’d have to stop anyway.

  • 1:24:30 — Oh.
• 1:40:30 — Perhaps that is World War I (1914-1918)

• 1:58:30 —

  • Thaumatrope
  • Zoetrope
  • Praxinoscope
  • Pictograph Cave – Rock art

Footnotes

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