History Film / Hugo

** This sounds horribly wrong ( or funny) to a french audience. Everybody (save Christopher Lee) wrongly pronounce "Hugo Cabret".

** Colour movies... in the 1890's.
*** To be fair, it is explained that they hand painted each frame. See ColorWash below.

* GettingCrapPasttheRadar:

* BasedOnATrueStory: Sort of. The character of Hugo is entirely fictional, but the life of George Melies as presented in the film is pretty accurate.

* SteamPunk: The [[NeverTrustATrailer trailers give this impression]], though in reality it's pretty realistic. Though Scorcese apparently broke his back to ensure that nearly every goddarn scene has CGI steam wafting through it.

*** [[spoiler: Hugo's father made all the notebooks in the drawing. It has quite a bit of sentimental value.]]

* GettingCrapPasttheRadar: Gustav has several conversations with a man who believes his wife is pregnant with another man's child. Gustav even asks the man about the last time he had relations with his wife.
** Additionally at the end of the movie Gustav remarks that he is a [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean fully functioning man]].

* GettingCrapPasttheRadar: Gustav has several conversations with a man who believes his wife is pregnant with another man's child. Gustav even asks the man about the last time he had relations with his wife.

One day, he gets caught stealing a toy from Papa Georges ([[{{Gandhi}} Sir Ben Kingsley]]), a melancholy man who runs a toystore inside the station. He finds the notebook Hugo carries containing drawings of the automaton by his father. Papa Georges takes the notebook, threatening to burn it. With the help of Papa Georges' goddaughter Isabelle (ChloeMoretz), Hugo tries to get the notebook back and use it to discover the secret of the automaton. Along the way, he discovers the secret of Papa Georges, including his real name:[[spoiler:[[ATripToTheMoon Georges Méliès]] ]].

*** Wasn't he also [[CareerKiller Yassen]] [[AlexRider Gregorovitch]]?

* GettingCrapPasttheRadar: Gustav has several conversations with a man who believes his wife is pregnant with another man's child. Gustav even asks the man when was the last time he had [[WhatDoYouMeanItsforKids relations]] with his wife.

* JeannieCut: The real Méliès' main special effect. In-universe a flashback scene demonstrates how it was done.

''Hugo'' is a family film directed by MartinScorsese, written by [[{{Rango}} John]] [[TheAviator Logan]] and produced by JohnnyDepp. It is based on the children's novel ''The Invention of Hugo Cabret'' written by Brian Selznick (Grandson of legendary film producer David O. Selznick). It stars [[TheBoyInTheStripedPyjamas Asa Butterfield]] as an orphan boy who lives in a train station in 1930s Paris and whose only companion is an automaton discovered by his late father. He devotes his life to making sure the clocks run on time and to gradually repairing the automaton, under the belief that the message it is designed to write is a message from his father.

*** To be fair, it is explained that they hand painted each frame. See * ColorWash below.

*** To be fair, it is explained that they hand painted each frame.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Almost all of the cast is British, and despite the film being set in Paris, they all speak with their natural accents.

* SteamPunk: The [[NeverTrustTheTrailer trailers give this impression]], though in reality it's pretty realistic. Though Scorcese apparently broke his back to ensure that nearly every goddarn scene has CGI steam wafting through it.

* FakeBrit: American ChloeMoretz uses a British accent as Isabelle.