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Asa Butterfield as Hugo stands behind the face of a large clock, visible through its glass and gears, in a scene from the 2011 film Hugo directed by Martin Scorsese. Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield in character sit at a wooden counter examining toys in a toy shop scene from the film Hugo (2011), surrounded by vintage figurines and decorations.
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Hugo

film by Scorsese [2011]
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Asa Butterfield as Hugo stands behind the face of a large clock, visible through its glass and gears, in a scene from the 2011 film Hugo directed by Martin Scorsese.
Hugo Asa Butterfield in Hugo (2011), directed by Martin Scorsese.

The film Hugo (2011), directed by Martin Scorsese, is a departure from his usual style, being his first film shot in 3-D and his most expensive production at the time. Based on Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the story follows a 12-year-old orphan named Hugo living in the Gare Montparnasse train station in 1931.1

Hugo discovers that the grumpy toy shop owner is actually the forgotten pioneer filmmaker Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s, who was an early experimenter with motion pictures and the first to film fictional narratives. M\u00e9li\u00e8s, a former magician, pioneered basic camera tricks and created over 400 films, including A Trip to the Moon. The film explores themes of film preservation and the rediscovery of M\u00e9li\u00e8s's lost work.213

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  3. Martin Scorsese - Films of the 2010s: Shutter Island , Hugo , and The Wolf of Wall Street

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