Hugo
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[as she
says goodbye to Hugo and turns to leave to return to
the station]Isabelle: Thank you, for the movie today. It was a gift.
[Hugo
returns to the station but collides with Monsieur Labisse, causing him
to drop the books he's carrying, Hugo picks them up and notices of the
books is Robin Hood]Monsieur Labisse: You know this volume?
Hugo Cabret: My father and I used to read it together.
Monsieur Labisse: It is intended for my godson. But now I think it is intended for you, Monsieur Cabret.
[he gives Hugo the book and walks away]
[as Gustav is having coffee with Madame Emilie, Gustav looks longingly at Lisette as she works]
Madame Emilie: Demitasse, like everything else must happen at the opportune moment.
Inspector Gustav: If we only knew when that moment was.
Madame Emilie: Oh, Gustav! Be intrepid. Say hello to her. Come on, give me your best smile.
[Gustav tries to smile]
Madame Emilie: Your best smile.
[he puts more effort into his smile]
Madame Emilie: It's beautiful. Radiant!
Inspector Gustav: A very gracious good evening to you.
Lisette: Monsieur Inspector.
[there's an awkward silence before he speaks]
Inspector Gustav: Yes. Those are lovely Posies, those.
Lisette: Thank you. Yes, they're from Bordeaux, they come in on the overnight trains, so they're very fresh.
Inspector Gustav: Ah, Bordeaux. Splendid country that. Robust. The cows and such mooing. Perfectly formed udders.
[Lisette smiles awkwardly]
Inspector Gustav: Are they...are they...are they smelly? Are they smelly flowers?
Lisette: Oh! Um...yes, a little. Please.
[Gustav bend his head closer to the flowers to smell them but his leg brace gives way and he stumbles into the flowers]
Inspector Gustav: You see, I was injured in the war and it will never heal. Good evening, Mademoiselle.
[embarrassed he turns to walk away]
Lisette: I lost my brother.
Inspector Gustav: Where?
Lisette: Verdun.
[she turns takes a Posie and walks towards Gustav and puts the flower on his jacket]
Lisette: Good evening, Monsieur Inspector.
Inspector Gustav: Very good evening, Mademoiselle Lisette.
[beaming with happiness he turns and walks away]
Monsieur Labisse: The Film Academy Library.
Hugo Cabret: Excuse me?
Monsieur Labisse: The Film Academy Library. You'll find all you need to know about movies there. Second level, fourth row, section three, and
uh...yes, top
shelf. The invention of dreams, by Rene Tabard. The story of the first
movies.[at the library Hugo and Isabelle find ReneTabard's book, Hugo opens the book and reads]
Hugo Cabret: In eighteen eighty five, one of the very first films ever shown was called 'A Train Arrives in the Station', which had nothing more than a train coming into the station. When the train came speeding toward the screen the audience screamed.
[reading from the book]
Isabelle: Because they thought they were in danger of being run over. No one had ever seen anything like it before. No on had ever seen anything like it before.
[continuing to read from Rene Tabard book]
Hugo Cabret: What began as a sideshow novelty soon became something more when the first filmmakers discovered that they could use the new medium to tell stories.
[as they turn the pages of the book they see many stills from old movies, until they stumble on the image of the moon from 'A Trip to the Moon', the same image the robot drew earlier]
Isabelle: The filmmaker, Georges Méliès, was one of the first to realize that films had the power to capture dreams.
Hugo Cabret: The great pioneer of early filmmaking died during The Great War.
[confused Isabelle and Hugo look at each other]
Isabelle: Died? During The Great War?
[as Hugo and Isabelle are reading Rene Tabard's book a man comes up behind them]
Rene Tabard: You're interested in Méliès?
Hugo Cabret: Uh...yes.
Isabelle: It's allowed.
Rene Tabard: Is it?
[Hugo looks at the book and sees the photo of the man standing behind them, realizing he is in fact Rene Tabard]
Isabelle: He's my godfather you see and very much alive, thank you very much!
Rene Tabard: Well that's not possible.
Hugo Cabret: I assure you, sir. It's true.
Rene Tabard: Why should I believe you?
Hugo Cabret: Because...because it's true!
Rene Tabard: Méliès is alive?
[Hugo nods his head and Tabard begins to laugh loudly]
Rene Tabard: Come with me.
[Tabard shows them his collection of movie memorabilia]
Rene Tabard: Your godfather is a passion of mine. He was a great filmmaker. Here he is at work in his studio
[pointing to a photo of Méliès as a younger man]
Rene Tabard: And this is a hang board from his stage act. Here is the great crystal mystery clock, made by his mentor, Robert Houdin. And this is one of his actual cameras.
[Hugo notices a photo of Méliès dressed as a magician]
Hugo Cabret: He was a magician?
Rene Tabard: Yes. He began on the stage.
Isabelle: How did he start making movies?
Rene Tabard: No one really knows.
[referring to the photo of Méliès posing in his magician act]
Hugo Cabret: Look at how happy he is.
Isabelle: Professor Tabard, would you perhaps like to meet him?
Rene Tabard: Oh, but you see, I have met him. My brother worked as a carpenter building sets for Méliès. One day he took me to visit the studio. It was like something out of a dream. A whole building was made out of glass. In reality this was to let in all the sun light necessary for filming, but to my eyes it was nothing short of an enchanted castle. A palace made of glass.
[we see flashback of Tabard when he was a boy being on the set in the glass building and meeting Méliès for the first time]
Georges Méliès: If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from, you look around. This is where they're made.
[the young Tabard watches as Méliès directs his movie]
Rene Tabard: In the end he made over a five hundred movies. He was phenomenally popular in his day.
Isabelle: But why did he stop?
Rene Tabard: Up until today, I believed that he died in the war, like so many others.
Hugo Cabret: Could we watch some of his movies?
Rene Tabard: I wish you could, but time hasn't been kind to old movies.
[he takes out and old and dusty looking film reel]
Rene Tabard: This is the only one that we know of that's survived. Out of hundreds, one. And still, it is a masterpiece.
Hugo Cabret: We've got to get Tabard to show Papa Georges the film. Then he'll see he's not forgotten.
Isabelle: Shouldn't I tell Mama Jeanne?
Hugo Cabret: No. I think it should be a surprise, like a magic trick. We need to have some panache.
Isabelle: Panache. Well done!
Hugo Cabret: Monsieur Labisse gave me a book the other night.
Isabelle: He's always doing that. Sending books to a good home, that's what he calls it.
Hugo Cabret: He's got real...purpose.
Isabelle: What do you mean?
Hugo Cabret: Everything has a purpose, even machines. Clocks tell the time, trains take you places. They do what they're meant to do, like Monsieur Labisse. Maybe that's why broken machines make me so sad, they can't do what they're meant to do. Maybe it's the same with people. If you lose your purpose, it's like you're broken.
Isabelle: Like Papa Georges?
Hugo Cabret: Maybe we could fix him.
Isabelle: Is that your purpose? Fixing things?
Hugo Cabret: I don't know. It's what my father did.
Isabelle: I wonder what my purpose is?
Hugo Cabret: I don't know.
Isabelle: Maybe if I'd known my parents I would know.
[Hugo takes Isabelle to the back of the giant train station
clock where they watch the beauty
of Paris at night]Hugo Cabret: Right after my father died, I would come up here a lot. I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason too.
[Hugo takes Isabelle hand as they look at Paris from the back of the clock]
Hugo Cabret: I'll bring Tabard, tomorrow night at seven. Don't say anything.
Isabelle: Are you sure about this?
Hugo Cabret: Not really. But I think it's the only way to...
Isabelle: To fix him.
[Hugo nods his head, Isabelle smiles and kisses Hugo's cheek]
[to himself after he's found out Hugo's uncle, Claude Cabret, has been found dead]
Inspector Gustav: If he's deceased, then who has been winding the clocks?
[when Hugo brings Tabard to Méliès home]
Mama Jeanne: Isabelle, what's the meaning of this?
Isabelle: Please, don't be mad Mama.
Mama Jeanne: That young man is not welcome here.
Hugo Cabret: We found out who Papa Georges is.
Rene Tabard: I...I deeply apologize, Madame. I thought you were expecting us. I will leave immediately and return upon your request.
Please, keep your voices down. My husband's sleeping, he hasn't been well since...
[she looks at Hugo accusingly]
Isabelle: Mama! Mama, please don't make them leave!
Rene Tabard: I don't wish to impose on you, Madame Méliès. But if this is to be the only time we meet, please let me express to you the profound debt of gratitude I owe your husband. When I was a boy, I saw all his films, they inspired me. Your husband is a very great artist.
Mama Jeanne: I am so pleased you remember my husband's films with such fondness. But he's so fragile, it hurts him to remember the past.
Rene Tabard: Then we will take our leave, Madame. And I do hope you'll forgive me for saying, you are as lovely now as you were in the movies.
Isabelle: Mama!
Hugo Cabret: You were in the movies?
Rene Tabard: She appeared in almost all his films.
Isabelle: You were an actress?
Mama Jeanne: It was a long time ago, children. It was...it was another time. I uh...I uh...I was another person.
Rene Tabard: Would you like to meet her again?
[Mama Jeanne looks at him confused]
Rene Tabard: We have a film.
Mama Jeanne: One of Georges films? Oh, that's not possible. They're all gone.
Rene Tabard: May we show you?
Hugo Cabret: Please!
Isabelle: Oh, yes! Please, Mama! Please!
Mama Jeanne: Just be real quick.
[as Tabard prepares the movie projector]
Isabelle: You were an actress? A real cinema actress? It's impossibly romantic, Mama.
Mama Jeanne: It wasn't like that. We weren't movie stars, like they have today. But we did have fun.
Rene Tabard: Madame Méliès?
[she nods her head and he begins playing the movie projector and they watch 'A Trip to the Moon]
[as they watch 'A Trip to the Moon']
Hugo Cabret: It's in color!
Mama Jeanne: But of course. We tinted the film, we painted it by hand. Frame by frame.
Isabelle: Mama, it's you!
[as the movie ends]
Isabelle: You were beautiful.
[we see Méliès standing in the background]
Georges Méliès: She still is.
[Isabelle comes over to him and takes his hand]
Georges Méliès: I would recognize the sound of a movie projector anywhere.
Mama Jeanne: Georges, you've tried to forget the past for so long. It's brought you nothing but unhappiness. Hmm? Maybe it's time to try and remember.
[looking at Hugo]
Georges Méliès: You want to know?
Hugo Cabret: Yes.
Georges Méliès: Just like you, I love to fix things. I started out as a magician. Mama Jeanne was my assistant.
[we see flashback of Méliès performing his magic act with Mama Jeanne on stage]
Georges Méliès: [voice over] We were very successful I must say. We were never out of theater.
Georges Méliès: [voice over] I was always tinkering with machines. I had my own workshop at the theater, where I could invent new illusions. Once I even build a working automaton.
[we see him working on the same robot that Hugo now has]
Georges Méliès: [voice over] Ah, he was a particular treasure. I had my heart was sewn into him. Then one night, Mama Jeanne and I went to visit a traveling circus. We were walking past the sideshow tellers when I noticed something, something strange. Something wonderful.
[we see Méliès going into a tent where he sees the first movie "A Train Pulls into a Station"]
Georges Méliès: [voice over] The Lumiere Brothers had invented the
[we see Méliès making movies in his glass built studio]
Georges Méliès: [voice over] Magic tricks and illusion became my specialty. The world of imagination. My beautiful wife was my muse, my star and we couldn't have been happier. We thought it would never end. How could it? But then the war came, and you and hope were at an end. The world had no time for magic tricks and movie shows. The returning soldiers having seen so much of reality, were bored by my films. Tastes had changed, but I had not changed with them. No one wanted my movies anymore. Eventually, I...I couldn't pay the actors or keep the business running. And so my enchanted castle fell to ruin, everything was lost. One night in bitter despair, I burned all my old sets and costumes.
Georges Méliès: [voice over] I was forced to sell my movies to a company that melted them down into chemicals. These chemicals were used to make shoe heels. With a little money I had selling my films, I bought the toy booth. And there I have remained. The only thing I couldn't bring myself to destroy was my beloved automaton. So I gave him to a museum, hoping he would find a home. But they put him on display, then the museum burned. It's all gone now. Everything I ever made, nothing but ashes and fading strips of celluloid.
Georges Méliès: My life has taught be one lesson, Hugo, and not the one I thought it would. Happy endings only happen in the movies.
Hugo Cabret: I'll be right back.
[Hugo leaves and runs back to the train station]
[after Gustave captures Hugo in the station, with Madame Emilie, Monsieur Frick and Lisette watching]
Hugo Cabret: Let me go!
Inspector Gustav: Did you think you'd escape me?
Hugo Cabret: Let me go!
Madame Emilie: Gustave, have a heart!
Hugo Cabret: Please! Help me!
Madame Emilie: Please!
[Lisette watches in shock and disappointment at Gustav's actions]
Inspector Gustav: No! He's been undermining the station for too long!
Madame Emilie: Stop!
Hugo Cabret: I've got to go!
Inspector Gustav: You'll go no where until your parents are found.
Hugo Cabret: I don't have any!
Inspector Gustav: Then it's straight to the orphanage with you!
[he throws Hugo into the orphan cage]
Inspector Gustav: You'll learn a thing or two there. I certainly did. How to follow orders, how to keep to yourself. How to survive without a family, because you don't need one. You don't need a family!
[as Gustav makes a call to the orphanage Hugo breaks out of the cell and escapes]
[after Hugo has managed to grab the robot, Gustav grabs Hugo again causing Hugo to drop the robot on the rail track, as Hugo tries to grab the robot a train approaches but Gustav saves him]
Inspector Gustav: We'll let the orphanage deal with you.
Hugo Cabret: No! I don't belong there!
Inspector Gustav: Where do you belong then? A child hast to belong somewhere!
Hugo Cabret: Listen to me! Please! Please! Listen to me! You don't understand! You have to let me go! I don't understand, why my father died! Why I'm alone!
[Hugo begins to cry]
Hugo Cabret: This is my only chance, to work. You should understand!
[Gustav looks down at his injured leg with the braces on it and suddenly Méliès and Isabelle show up behind them]
Georges Méliès: I do! I do! Monsieur, this child belongs to me.
[Gustav looking sorry now, lets go of Hugo]
[Hugo gives the now broken robot to Méliès]
Hugo Cabret: I'm sorry. He's broken.
Georges Méliès: No, he's not. He works perfectly.
[he begins to cry, puts his arm around Hugo and walks out of the station with him]
[at a large theater Tabard makes an announcement to the well-dressed audience]
Rene Tabard: Honored guests, I am proud to welcome you to this gala. Celebrating the life and work of Georges Méliès.
[the audience claps]
Rene Tabard: For years most of his films were thought to be lost. Indeed, Monsieur Méliès believed so himself. But we began a search, we looked through vaults, through private collections, barns and catacombs. Our work was rewarded with old negatives, boxes of prints and trunks full of decaying film which we were able save. We now have over eighty films by Georges Méliès.
[the audience claps again]
Rene Tabard: And tonight, their creator and the newest member of the Film Academy faculty, is here to share them with you.
[the curtains draw back to reveal Méliès and the audience stands and claps]
[addressing the audience at the large theater]
Georges Méliès: Ladies and gentlemen, I...I am standing before you tonight because of one
very
brave young man, who saw a broken machine and against all odds, he
fixed it. [he looks at Hugo, who's sitting in the audience next to Isabelle]
Georges Méliès: It was the kindest magic trick that ever I've seen. And now, my friends, I address you all tonight, as you truly are. Wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers... Magicians!
[he looks at Hugo again]
Georges Méliès: Come and dream with me.
[the curtains behind him draws back and the audience watches a montage of Méliès movies]
[at the after-party at Méliès home which includes Monsieur Frick Madame Emilie, Labisse and Gustav and Lisette. who are now together]
Lisette: Don't forget to smile, darling.
Inspector Gustav: Well, which one? I've mastered three of them.
[to the musicians as they move their instruments aside as Gustav walks past them wearing his new leg brace]
Inspector Gustav: Don't worry, I'm now a fully functioning man.
[last lines; at the party Isabelle smiles as she watches Hugo doing magic tricks, she sits and starts writing in her notebook]
Isabelle: [voice over] Once upon a time, I met a boy named Hugo Cabret. He lived in a train station. Why did he live in a train station? You might well ask. That's really what this book is going to be about. And about how this singular young man searched so hard to find his secret message from his father and how that message led his way all the way home.
[finally we see the automaton as it sits at a writing desk, staring into space]
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Quotes: 68
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