Hugo: Book vs. Movie
Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011) adapts Brian Selznick's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Asa Butterfield plays an orphan living inside a Paris railway station, where a broken automaton leads him toward a mystery involving a toy seller.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Brian Selznick
- Year
- 2007
- Pages
- 544Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 2 hr 51 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Jeff Woodman
Hugo secretly maintains the clocks in a Paris railway station, surviving by theft while trying to repair a mechanical figure his father left behind. An encounter with a toy seller threatens his hiding place and brings an inquisitive girl into his life. Told through prose and sequences of drawings, his search for the machine's missing piece leads toward a forgotten history of filmmaking.
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Writer
- John Logan
- Year
- 2011
- Runtime
- 2 hr 6 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz
- Genre
- adventure, drama, mystery, steampunk
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
An orphan hiding in a Paris station believes a broken automaton may hold a final message from his father. To repair it, Hugo steals parts from a toy stall, bringing him into conflict with its owner and into friendship with the man's goddaughter, Isabelle. Their search for answers must stay ahead of a station inspector determined to catch him.
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