Hi... After another prolonged absence, I return to writing today... I stand inspired by Martin Scorcese, who's directed a cinematic masterpiece that opened in cinemas in the US in December... The name of the movie is Hugo...
Hugo is adapted from an illustrated book by Brian Selznick and is about a boy name Hugo Cabret... That's all I'll say about the story, because frankly that's not what impressed me about the movie... In fact, it's a little slow and I stopped watching it the first time around because it just went on without really going anywhere...
However, the next time I started looking at the other aspects... The movie is simply awesome to look at... The visual appeal is simply stunning... And I saw it in 2D whereas the movie is shot in 3D, so I can only imagine how good it must have been with another added dimension... The cinematography is amazing too (possibly why it won the Oscar for it)...
What interested me even more was that it was more of a telling of the roots of cinema than a simple story... It shows the genius of a man named Georges Melies who pioneered some of the earliest special effects in the movies (way back in the late 1800s & the early 1900s)... Even the Lumiere brothers, who practically invented the moving picture, credit Melies as the 'creator of the cinematic spectacle'... Well, its a fitting tribute by Scorcese, who's created another cinematic spectacle for Melies... However, this part is relegated to a mere 30 minutes in a 2hr long film... The rest of the movie is dedicated to Hugo searching for the truth about his father's death, and that's where the plot is lost... In creating a cinematic spectacle, someone forgot to include a compelling story-line.. That's probably why even though it was met with critical acclaim, it failed to set the cash registers ringing and didn't really earn up to it's potential... Even at the Oscars, the awards it won were all technical ones, Cinematography, Art Direction, Visual Effects, Sound Mixing & Sound Editing...
Well.. I will next attempt to watch another tribute to cinema of the mid-twentieth century, namely The Artist.. This movie pretty much took away all the other big Oscars this year, and promises to be an exciting watch... Till then, au revoir !
Hugo is adapted from an illustrated book by Brian Selznick and is about a boy name Hugo Cabret... That's all I'll say about the story, because frankly that's not what impressed me about the movie... In fact, it's a little slow and I stopped watching it the first time around because it just went on without really going anywhere...
However, the next time I started looking at the other aspects... The movie is simply awesome to look at... The visual appeal is simply stunning... And I saw it in 2D whereas the movie is shot in 3D, so I can only imagine how good it must have been with another added dimension... The cinematography is amazing too (possibly why it won the Oscar for it)...
What interested me even more was that it was more of a telling of the roots of cinema than a simple story... It shows the genius of a man named Georges Melies who pioneered some of the earliest special effects in the movies (way back in the late 1800s & the early 1900s)... Even the Lumiere brothers, who practically invented the moving picture, credit Melies as the 'creator of the cinematic spectacle'... Well, its a fitting tribute by Scorcese, who's created another cinematic spectacle for Melies... However, this part is relegated to a mere 30 minutes in a 2hr long film... The rest of the movie is dedicated to Hugo searching for the truth about his father's death, and that's where the plot is lost... In creating a cinematic spectacle, someone forgot to include a compelling story-line.. That's probably why even though it was met with critical acclaim, it failed to set the cash registers ringing and didn't really earn up to it's potential... Even at the Oscars, the awards it won were all technical ones, Cinematography, Art Direction, Visual Effects, Sound Mixing & Sound Editing...
Well.. I will next attempt to watch another tribute to cinema of the mid-twentieth century, namely The Artist.. This movie pretty much took away all the other big Oscars this year, and promises to be an exciting watch... Till then, au revoir !
P.S.: The title of the blog is a para-phrase of one of Melies' dialogues in the movie to a young boy in his studio - "If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from, you look around... This is where they're made".
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