Hugo Cabret
| Movie | |
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| German title | Hugo Cabret |
| Original title | Hugo |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 127 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 8 |
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| Director | Martin Scorsese |
| script | John Logan |
| production |
Johnny Depp , Tim Headington , Graham King , Martin Scorsese |
| music | Howard Shore |
| camera | Robert Richardson |
| cut | Thelma Schoonmaker |
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Hugo Cabret (Original title: Hugo ) is an American 3D film from 2011 based on Brian Selznick 's children's novel The Discovery of Hugo Cabret . Directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan . The film won five Academy Awards at the 2012 Academy Awards .
Although this literary film was still in post-production , it premiered on October 10, 2011 as a work-in-progress ("in progress") at the New York Film Festival . It is the second film after Beauty and the Beast from 1991 that was shown at the festival before its completion.
Scorsese's first 3D film was released on November 23, 2011 in the United States. The film launch in German cinemas was on February 9, 2012.
action
In Paris from 1931, twelve-year-old Hugo got to know and love the cinema through his father. Hugo's father is actually a watchmaker and works in a museum. There he finds a mechanical figure in the attic that is controlled by a complicated clockwork. This figure includes a desk and an inkwell with a fountain pen. He takes the device home to repair it with Hugo. When Hugo's father dies in a fire in the museum, Hugo is left alone with the machine.
After the death of his father, the boy finds accommodation with his uncle Claude in an attic apartment in the huge Parisian Montparnasse train station . Claude is responsible for maintaining the station clocks. He introduces Hugo to the labyrinthine world within the walls and trains him so that he can take over his work. He won't let the boy go to school. The uncle is a notorious drinker, and one day when he is found dead from the Seine , the boy secretly takes over his work. Nobody seems to notice.
Because he cannot dispose of his uncle's income, he commits minor thefts in the station shops, including a small toy store. There he procures the material he needs to repair the device. Hugo procures something edible in the same way. He constantly has to watch out for the war disabled station inspector Gustave Dasté, who wears a squeaking metal rail around his left leg, and his dog, an aggressive Doberman , because the man mercilessly brings orphaned children to the orphanage. When the owner of the toy store caught Hugo stealing, he took the notebook with the machine's plans. Since Hugo is of the opinion that the mechanical man can write and will bring him a message from his father if it is only repaired, Hugo almost despairs over the loss of the book. In addition, an important part is missing from the device: a winding key with a heart-shaped key bit.
Hugo tries to get the plans for the machine through Isabelle, who is the same age and the toy shop owner's godchild. So he takes her to the cinema and she can see a film for the first time in her life, which her godfather had always forbidden. She is thrilled and when Hugo discovers the heart-shaped wind-up key that Isabelle wears as a pendant around her neck, he shows her the device and she is amazed why she of all people has the key for the wind-up figure of Hugo's father. The two start the machine, whereupon he draws a picture from the film The Journey to the Moon , the first film Hugo's father saw in the cinema and about which he told his son. In addition, the machine signs with Georges Méliès , the shop owner's name, which amazes Isabelle again. They show the drawing of their godmother , who is not very pleased and explains to the children that they should let the past rest. However, Hugo is determined to uncover the secret of the character, who is the only thing he still has from his father.
After much research, with the help of Professor Tabard, an admirer of Méliès, it turns out that he is an early, but now forgotten and disaffected cinema legend. Originally he was a successful magician with his own theater. He was also a talented mechanic who, among other things, built automata for his performances. The wind-up figure also dates from this time. After Tabard and the children visit Méliès and his wife and show them there the only film Méliès known to his knowledge, The Journey to the Moon , Méliès tells him his story with emotion:
Méliès became interested in the new technology while attending a film screening by the Lumière brothers , during which the arrival of a train at the station in La Ciotat could be seen. Since the Lumière brothers didn't want to sell him a camera, he built one himself, eventually founded a film studio and enjoyed great success with his own films, in which he was producer, director, screenwriter and actor at the same time. But when the war broke out, the audience was no longer interested in Méliès' films. In order not to get into debt, he sold his film material to a shoe factory that made shoe soles from the celluloid . He gave his wind-up figure to a museum. With the last of his money, Méliès bought a stand at the Paris train station and has been a simple toy seller there ever since.
Hugo realizes that the wind-up figure from Méliès' tale is his father's machine, and he runs back to the train station to give it back to Méliès. There he falls into the hands of the station inspector Gustave and is to be taken to the orphanage; but he can free himself because of his fate. When Gustave notices his disappearance, a chase begins in which Hugo succeeds in getting the wind-up figure out of its hiding place, but as a result of an unfortunate accident it falls onto the tracks. Hugo's life is in danger when he tries to get the wind-up figure out of the track bed and at the last moment is saved by Gustave from an arriving train. When Hugo tries to convince Gustave to release him, Méliès and Isabelle finally appear and take Hugo to their home.
Ultimately, Méliès can finish with his past, because he realizes that he has found a new generation of cinema friends in the children who appreciate his work and still understand having dreams. A few months later, at an event in honor of Méliès, Professor Tabard presented 80 of his films that were found and are now being screened.
production
Production costs amounted to a sum between 150 million and 170 million US dollars .
Stereo 3D animation
The S3D animation comes from the Frankfurt company Pixomondo . For this, the film received the Oscar in the category Best Visual Effects in 2012 . A total of 62 minutes of the film were digitally post-processed (853 virtual shots). At the end of the film, several hand-colored sequences of historical silent films can be seen, which were subsequently extrapolated to stereo 3D. Computer 3D animations are not always stereoscopic (spatial), but in this case state-of-the-art stereo 3D editing software enabled the spatial tracking of the film, which was impossible to produce with real 3D cameras.
synchronization
The German synchronization was carried out by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron (FFS) Munich . Voice actors were among others:
| role | actor | German speakers |
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| Hugo Cabret | Asa Butterfield | Manuel scrubbing chair |
| Isabelle | Chloë Grace Moretz | Alina friend |
| Georges Méliès | Ben Kingsley | Peter Matic |
| Hugo's father | Jude Law | Philipp Brammer |
| Mama Jeanne | Helen McCrory | Carin C. Tietze |
| Monsieur Labisse | Christopher Lee | Thomas Rau |
| Lisette | Emily Mortimer | Elisabeth von Koch |
| Station master | Sacha Baron Cohen | Pascal Breuer |
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In Hugo's nightmare, the railway accident at Gare Montparnasse in 1895 is recreated.
In cameo appearances , Martin Scorsese can be seen as the photographer and Brian Selznick, the author of the literature, as an “avid student” in the Sainte-Geneviève library .
The trailer music comes from Audiomachine and is called Breath and Life .
reception
success
In the United States, where the film opened in 2011, Hugo Cabret grossed 11.3 million US dollars on the first weekend. In total, he raised about $ 74 million there. The worldwide box office was $ 151 million.
In Germany, the rush in the cinemas was rather moderate, in the first week almost 130,000 visitors saw it. Overall, the film saw more than 532,000 viewers in Germany.
| country | Net income in US dollars |
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| Australia | 10,813,316 |
| Germany | 6,319,061 |
| France | 9,600,362 |
| Great Britain | 8,981,556 |
| Italy | 9,749,365 |
| Russia | 5,922,725 |
| United States | 73.864.507 |
Reviews
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The reviews were almost entirely positive. The American company Metacritic calculated an average rating of 83 out of 100 points. Newspapers such as the New York Times extensively praised the film. The use of 3D technology was also rated very positively.
At Rotten Tomatoes , the film received a positive rating from more than 90 percent of the reviewers , while 80 percent of the viewers voted positively for the film. Scorsese's 3D debut also received an average rating of 7.6 out of 10 stars from users on the Internet platform IMDb .
For Christoph Petersen from Filmstarts.de , Hugo Cabret is “contrary to the [sic!] First impression, not a film for children, but a touching screen fairy tale for cinema lovers and everyone who wants to become one”, and he sums up: “Those who love the cinema are allowed to Don't miss this film. "
Andreas Borcholte from Spiegel Online describes the film as a “dreamlike declaration of love to the magic of cinema” and, despite all the nostalgia, even sees Hugo Cabret as a sign of life for the entire medium: “In the big cinema machine - it may often be scolded as over-commercial and soulless - the light is still on. "
Awards (selection)
- Best movie
- Best director for Martin Scorsese
- Best production design
- Best tone
- Nominated for : Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Film Music, Best Costume Design, Best Make-Up, Best Visual Effects
- Best director
- Nominated for : Best Film - Drama, Best Film Music
- Best camera
- Best production design
- Best sound editing
- Best sound mix
- Best visual effects
- Nominated for : Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, and Best Film Music
- Best Actress in a Feature Film for Chloë Moretz
- Nominated for : Best Actor in a Feature Film for Asa Butterfield
- Predicate particularly valuable
Web links
- Hugo in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Hugo Cabret . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 884 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Hugo Cabret . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ David Rooney: Martin Scorsese Screens Work-In-Progress 'Hugo' at the New York Film Festival. In: hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2011, accessed October 17, 2011 .
- ↑ Start dates for The Discovery of Hugo Cabret (2011 / II). In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved October 17, 2011 .
- ^ Movie Projector: 'Breaking Dawn' to devour three new family films. Los Angeles Times , November 22, 2011, accessed March 5, 2012 .
- ↑ 3D effects for Hollywood - is an Oscar going to Frankfurt? (No longer available online.) In: hr-online. Archived from the original on June 4, 2012 ; Retrieved February 23, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hugo Cabret. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Hugo Cabret. Cast and crew. IMDb , accessed March 5, 2012 .
- ^ Original Music for Motion Picture Advertising Campaigns. Feature Film 2011. (No longer available online.) Audiomachine.com, archived from the original on January 8, 2012 ; accessed on March 5, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hugo Cabret. Worldwide box office results. The Numbers Box Office , accessed September 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2012 at insidekino.de, accessed on January 11, 2014
- ↑ Hugo. Box office results by February 28, 2012 (selection). Box Office Mojo, accessed March 1, 2012 .
- ↑ a b [1] at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on February 28, 2015
- ↑ a b [2] at Metacritic , accessed on February 28, 2015
- ↑ Hugo Cabret in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ Hugo Cabret. Reviews (press review). (No longer available online.) Film-zeit.de, archived from the original on May 29, 2012 ; Retrieved March 1, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hugo (2011). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed February 29, 2012 .
- ^ "Hugo Cabret" in the Internet Movie Database. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved January 18, 2014 .
- ^ "Hugo Cabret" review of the movie starts. In: film starts . Retrieved March 3, 2012 .
- ↑ 3-D fairy tale "Hugo Cabret": Little hero, big train station. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved March 3, 2012 .
- ↑ 33rd Annual Young Artist Award - Nominations . In: Young Artist Award . Retrieved May 7, 2012.
- ^ Hugo Cabret. German film and media rating, accessed on February 19, 2012 .
