This has nothing to do with Lincoln, but bear with me.
Over the past couple weeks we've been reading Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret to our boys. It's absolutely fascinating. I haven't been so into a children's book since ... well, probably since I was a kid. The story itself is fantastic, but there's much more to the book than that. For one thing, the book is written in a very non-traditional style, a sort of quasi-graphic novel approach that combines the written word with beautiful pencil drawings. The story introduced me to Georges Melies, a pioneer in early cinema with whom I was previously unfamiliar. And then there are automata which, as it turns out, are capable of far more advanced things than I ever imagined.
In an all-too-uncommon twist, the movie Hugo is an excellent translation of the book to the screen. Whodathunk director Martin Scorsese of all people could pull it off?
Our boys love both the book and the movie. I enjoyed both so much that I will most certainly purchase the movie when it comes out, and I've ordered the hard cover (the copy we read was from the library).
Check out both if you can.
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I thought it was good. I was a little underwhelmed at the ending. It works as a nice family film. Interesting to see Scorcese out-Tim-Burton Tim Burton in terms of creating a visually engaging, albeit artificial universe.
Did you see it in 3D? I thought the 3D was the best ive seen so far. Scorsese used the effect so naturally, rather than as a gimmick.
Yep. Indeed it was pretty cool. The “Goodfellas-like” long take in the beginning was a particularly nice use of the 3D. Though its kind of awkward for me since I have to wear those 3D glasses over my regular ones.
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