July Fantasy Thread - SPOILERS - The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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July Fantasy Thread - SPOILERS - The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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1Morphidae
Muokkaaja: heinäkuu 1, 2012, 12:38 pm

My this is a big honker.

But I'm breezing through it since it's mostly pictures. I'm enjoying them because they are line drawings and I'm currently teaching myself to draw and they are inspirational.

2clamairy
heinäkuu 1, 2012, 12:13 pm

Loved this one. Gave it to my daughter for Christmas back when it first came out and, like you, we both whipped right through it.

I'd like to see the movie version, since it won all sorts of awards. Have any of you seen it?

3Morphidae
heinäkuu 1, 2012, 12:38 pm

Yes, I saw it. It was good but I didn't think it was all that and awesomesauce. YMMV.

4katylit
heinäkuu 1, 2012, 4:36 pm

I love this book too. It's funny how enormous it looks and then you can finish it up so satisfyingly quick. I've seen the movie too and thought it very well done, but not as good as the book. I have a copy of Trip to the Moon by Melies and it's so delightfully whimsical. I thought it was very clever how Brian Selznick incorporated the wizard of early film making into this story of a lonely boy.

5streamsong
heinäkuu 6, 2012, 11:46 am

Finished and loved it. The drawings are wonderful. This would be so much fun to read out loud with a child.

I'm not sure why it would be classified as fantasy. Can someone help me out?

6The_Hibernator
Muokkaaja: heinäkuu 6, 2012, 11:53 am

I'm not sure why it would be classified as fantasy.

I suppose I hadn't thought about whether it was fantasy or not! It has magical elements, even if the magic is the "smoke and mirrors" type...the movies described in the story also have a fantastic air to them.

7catzteach
heinäkuu 6, 2012, 9:41 pm

I love Hugo! The pictures are amazing! I have read it aloud to my students a few times now. They really enjoy it. I use a doc camera to share the pictures.

8JPB
heinäkuu 7, 2012, 3:31 am

With a couple of exceptions, Hugo makes one of the better uses of 3D of any film I've seen.

Marten Scorsese did this one right. It wasn't omg omg omg, but it was good.

9maggie1944
heinäkuu 7, 2012, 5:59 pm

I love this book. I loved the drawings and am in awe of the details accomplished with just pencils. I almost always like books which depict children as capable of taking care of themselves.

10Ennas
heinäkuu 8, 2012, 8:48 am

1 Morph, what's a "big honker"?

I read this book a few years ago and I remember that I liked the way the story continued in the pictures. Apart from that, I thought it was a little -what's the word??- over-hyped? (Is thát what a big honker is?)

I haven't seen the movie (yet).

11Morphidae
heinäkuu 8, 2012, 4:07 pm

>10 Ennas: A big honker is a book with a large number of pages.

12maggie1944
heinäkuu 8, 2012, 5:22 pm

A synonym for "big honker" is "doorstopper" (could use it to hold a door open).

13Ennas
heinäkuu 9, 2012, 12:51 pm

Ah! A big honker is 'een dikkerd'! Thanks. :-)

14Choreocrat
heinäkuu 17, 2012, 11:57 pm

I wasn't a big fan of the Sasha Baron Cohen addition to the film. I know that they did it to fill out the storyline that couldn't transfer from the page, but compared to the rest of it, it just sat tackily.

15Morphidae
heinäkuu 18, 2012, 6:10 am

Yeah, that was a weird addition.

16catzteach
heinäkuu 18, 2012, 10:37 pm

Agreed.

17Meredy
heinäkuu 22, 2012, 11:01 pm

It bothered me too. He was a quasi-bad guy, but unfairly mocked for his disability, and then later made sympathetic. The result was a sort of emotional trickery that didn't play fair with the audience.