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Martin Scorsese's HUGO Trailer

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Have you read my impressions? I've seen the actual film and that bit is not representative of it.
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Read it now, sounds much better than the trailers are showing. Just one question. If watched in 2d will it still be as good visually do you think?
 
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Dead Man said:
Read it now, sounds much better than the trailers are showing. Just one question. If watched in 2d will it still be as good visually do you think?
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Definitely not. There is a specific moment in the 3rd act that uses 3D as a storytelling device, not just technically. It is magnificent and gave me chills.
 
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Definitely not. There is a specific moment in the 3rd act that uses 3D as a storytelling device, not just technically. It is magnificent and gave me chills.
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Hmm... might be worth the headache then. Thanks.
 
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New trailer is out now.

Massive improvement over the first, there's pretty much no slapstick at all, and no rock songs.
 
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Have you read my impressions? I've seen the actual film and that bit is not representative of it.
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Aside from a brief mention that at some point it supposedly switches gears and stops sucking, all you really say is if you are a student of film you'll appreciate the nods. Oh yeah, and the 3D doesn't suck. Of course as many times as I've heard the latter it really means nothing to me. 3D, even done well, does nothing as far as building interest for a movie. I'm no student of film either, so really the only thing I've got to hold onto this movie doesn't suck as much as those trailers lead me to believe is your assurance it does a 180 midway through.
 
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Aside from a brief mention that at some point it supposedly switches gears and stops sucking, all you really say is if you are a student of film you'll appreciate the nods. Oh yeah, and the 3D doesn't suck. Of course as many times as I've heard the latter it really means nothing to me. 3D, even done well, does nothing as far as building interest for a movie. I'm no student of film either, so really the only thing I've got to hold onto this movie doesn't suck as much as those trailers lead me to believe is your assurance it does a 180 midway through.
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It's fine even before the turning point. It doesn't "stop sucking" because it's all good. The original trailer doesn't representative the movie well in any fashion.
 
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Good interview with Scorsese about the film.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/martin-scorseses-magical-hugo.html
You shot a lot of the movie at Shepperton Studios outside London. In creating these sets, what aspects of the real Paris were you aiming for?

We built a train station, which is kind of an impression of Parisian train stations — the Gare du Nord, the Gare de Lyon, the old Gare Montparnasse, which no longer exists. We took that and aspects of French visual culture around the late ’20s, early ’30s, the Dadaists, the short films they made, Man Ray and Léger and René Clair’s comedies, “Under the Roofs of Paris” and “À Nous la Liberté” and created a Paris that wasn’t really Paris. It was an American’s impression of Paris. As a joke, I kept asking, ‘‘How are we going to know it’s Paris?’’ Whatever the angle was, I’d say, ‘‘Put the Eiffel Tower in there!’’
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In the past, you’ve gone to great lengths to achieve a desired texture. In “Raging Bull,” someone held a hot bar of iron beneath the lens to make Jake LaMotta look particularly weary. In “The Age of Innocence,” when Archer first sees Ellen, you overcranked the camera and then dissolved each frame into the next to make things flutter and slow down. In what ways did you experiment on “Hugo”?

My instinct was if something wasn’t normally done with 3-D cameras, let’s see if we could do it. And that actually was almost every other shot. But the most enjoyable time was building an approximation of Georges Méliès’s glass studio. We started replicating scenes from Méliès films as best we could. We recreated the underwater set for “Kingdom of the Fairies.” With Méliès’s films, especially the hand-colored ones, it’s like illuminated manuscripts come alive. We shot Méliès shooting his films for five or six days. It was one of the best times I’ve had shooting a picture.
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More at the link.

I really can't wait to see this thing.
 
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I was hyped for the movie before, but that Deadline article has me even more pumped. I am having a hard time convincing my coworkers that this movie is going to be something special, but I hope they listen.

I have yet to read the book, but many coworkers love it. I am trying to hype them up by saying it is Scorcese playing with new toys and in a new genre, which should get any movie fan excited. Between this and Tintin, the holidays will be awesome.
 
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It's a shame that in trying to undo the kiddy-image that the trailer created, people are pushing teh second half of the movie. It was pretty cool to see without know any of that was coming.
 
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I saw this at a screening in downtown LA last Saturday and Scorsese did a Q&A afterwards (the one moderated by PTA). I honestly had low expectations going into it and didn't know much about it other than that 1st trailer but holy shit I was blown away at how good it was. Some of the shots they pulled off in this movie are amazing, the story was great and I can tell why it grabbed Marty's interest. Going into it I thought it was just Marty selling out, doing a 3D kids' fantasy flick for a paycheck but this movie felt like it his heart was in it just as much as it was in Raging Bull and Taxi Driver. Ben Kingsley was fuckawesome in his role, as were the kids and Sacha Baron Cohen. This is also a GREAT use of 3D technology having been shot in 3D as opposed to being "converted" after the fact and Scorsese went on record at the Q&A as saying that he feels this new addition to movie technology is just as important as color and sound before it.
 
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polyh3dron said:
I saw this at a screening in downtown LA last Saturday and Scorsese did a Q&A afterwards (the one moderated by PTA). I honestly had low expectations going into it and didn't know much about it other than that 1st trailer but holy shit I was blown away at how good it was. Some of the shots they pulled off in this movie are amazing, the story was great and I can tell why it grabbed Marty's interest. Going into it I thought it was just Marty selling out, doing a 3D kids' fantasy flick for a paycheck but this movie felt like it his heart was in it just as much as it was in Raging Bull and Taxi Driver. Ben Kingsley was fuckawesome in his role, as were the kids and Sacha Baron Cohen. This is also a GREAT use of 3D technology having been shot in 3D as opposed to being "converted" after the fact and Scorsese went on record at the Q&A as saying that he feels this new addition to movie technology is just as important as color and sound before it.
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Absolutely. More than a lot of his other films, in fact.
 
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From the Deadline piece:
It goes without saying that the craftsmanship is as good as it gets, and for those who can’t stand 3D this could be a game-changer. Critic Leonard Maltin (who loved it) commented after the Regal screening that one extraordinary use of 3D in a scene involving co-star Sacha Baron Cohen’s face moving progressively closer into the audience could be the one that “finally makes the 3D sale” to those who just think it’s a fad.
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THIS THIS THIS

That scene was amazing, and was exactly the kind of thing I hoped to see from Scorsese working in 3D. More photography tricks than CG stuff.
 
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I'm trying to suss out what would be a contender. Coraline, maybe.

It's not that high a bar, but coming from Cameron it means a lot
 
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I'm trying to suss out what would be a contender. Coraline, maybe.

It's not that high a bar, but coming from Cameron it means a lot
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Transformers 3 too and Avatar...but Hugo is definitely on a completely other level since it uses it as a storytelling device. God, that last 30 minutes is pure bliss.
 
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I didn't see Transformers 3, but Avatar isn't even in teh running since the story and acting are so bad.

I didn't mean "the best" to mean best use of 3D, but the best movie that happens to be 3D.

Which I guess means one of the Toy Story movies, now that I think about it. I liked Coraline but the Toy Stories were better.

Still nothing close to Hugo though.
 
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Wow, surprised this is getting good reviews to be honest. I really didn't like the trailer. Love Scorsese, but didn't impress me. I'll watch this for sure though.
 
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overcast said:
Wow, surprised this is getting good reviews to be honest. I really didn't like the trailer. Love Scorsese, but didn't impress me. I'll watch this for sure though.
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A couple of us saw a preview, and believe me, the trailer is a horrible representation of the film.
 
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I didn't see Transformers 3, but Avatar isn't even in teh running since the story and acting are so bad.

I didn't mean "the best" to mean best use of 3D, but the best movie that happens to be 3D.

Which I guess means one of the Toy Story movies, now that I think about it. I liked Coraline but the Toy Stories were better.

Still nothing close to Hugo though.
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Oh, yeah in that case DEFINITELY not Transformers 3. For me it would be Coraline, Toy Story 3, How To Train Your Dragon, Tangled, Captain America: The First Avenger...and I'm hoping Tintin joins the list.
 
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On my phone, but Deadline just reported Hugo's Asa got cast as the lead in ENDER'S GAME!
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Valentine or Petra? My bet is Valentine.

Edit: LOL! I confused Asa with Chloe Moretz.

This is our Ender Wiggin?

Hmm.
 
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How to explain the feeling I have for Martin Scorsese’s HUGO.

Transcendent Joy. Tear-producing Awe & Wonder.

But that doesn’t really do it for me. What we have here is our greatest domestic filmmaker, a man that made his name as a director that told stories of criminals and a stunning grip of violent imagery, unleashed telling a story about a little boy – a thief – an orphan – a curious boy named Hugo Cabret. What amazes me about Scorsese and this film is the simple fact that this movie is completely, 100%, not like a single other film in his career.

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If you’ve seen Walt Disney’s classic cartoon CLOCK CLEANERS, where Mickey, Donald and Goofy have to clean a giant tower clock, not unlike BIG BEN, and well… hijinks occur… but when I was a kid, I had the old Fisher Price Hand Held Movie Viewer, which had cartridges with whole cartoons (it seemed to me) – and one of my faves was CLOCK CLEANERS – the brilliant thing about that cartoon was the constantly moving environment of the interior of the clock. We’ve also seen it in THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE or even in Orson Welles’ superb film, THE STRANGER. There are other great Clockwork films, but Scorsese – holy shit. It’s just wondrous. It isn’t overdone, it feels right, but absolutely magic for a child to live in and within.


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This is why the film is just so beautiful. So important for film loving folks to take their children to. The movie captures the magic of film. The magic of the makers of film. The wonder of the moving image.

If I had to pick some films to compare the MAGIC of this film to, it’d be Bill Condon’s GODS & MONSTERS, Giuseppe Tornatore’s CINEMA PARADISO and even something like Buster Keaton’s SHERLOCK JR. This is Scorsese’s love letter to film. The love that he gives Hugo and Chloe Moretz’s Isabelle’s discovery of every new bit of information – it’s stunning. Watching them discover the history of cinema, which Scorsese gives us a MASTER CLASS IN 3D of, literally taking images that I’ve had embedded in my noggin from the earliest age from my parents – and bringing them to life in an entirely new way. Once the kids are further along on their discovery of who George Melies is – the imagery becomes… well, naturally unbelievably amazing. Forget the work Scorsese did trying to recapture the magic from AVIATOR – here – it’s all 100% perfect. Here, he takes us on a 3D ride of discovery through the original magician of cinema. George Melies. Before there was Willis O’Brien, before there was Ray Harryhausen, before Jim Henson, before all the names of wizards of cinema, there was George Melies – and this film is Scorsese’s love letter to him… but more so – to the notion of film preservation, history, exhibition and the power it has to change lives.
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Dayumm that guy sure liked it, sounds almost like a telltale employee reviewing his own game. I'm not going to paste the whole thing, a bit of spoilers in there too but yeah that guy sure hypes it.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/52025
 
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