Hugo (2011) Poster

(2011)

Chloë Grace Moretz: Isabelle

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  • Isabelle : We could get into trouble.

    Hugo Cabret : That's how you know it's an adventure.

  • Isabelle : [last lines; at the part Isabelle smiles as she watches Hugo doing magic tricks, she sits and starts writing in her notebook] 

    [voice over] 

    Isabelle : 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 to hard to find a secret message from his Father, and how that message lead his way, all the way home.

    [Screen leads up to where we can see the automaton sitting at a desk, perfectly fixed. The screen fades to black] 

  • Isabelle : This might be an adventure, and I've never had one before - outside of books, at least.

  • Isabelle : [watching A Trip to the Moon]  It's in color!

    Mama Jeanne : Of course it is, we tinted them. We painted them by hand, frame by frame.

  • Hugo Cabret : [Angry and disappointed that the automaton hasn't written anything of sense]  What an idiot! Thinking I could fix it!

    Isabelle : Hugo...

    [Hugo looses his composure and begins smashing various items in the room] 

    Hugo Cabret : It's broken! It's always been broken!

    [Sits in chair, covers his face and begins to cry] 

    Isabelle : Hugo, it doesn't have to be like this. You can fix it.

    Hugo Cabret : [crying]  You don't... you don't understand. I thought... I thought if I could fix it... then I wouldn't be so alone.

    [Hugo's sobs fill the room. Suddenly, the machine begins to draw again] 

    Isabelle : Hugo, Hugo look! It... it's not done!

    [they watch as the automaton begins to draw a picture] 

    Hugo Cabret : [voice breaking]  It's not writing! It... it's drawing!

    [they see it is a scene from the movie "A Trip to the Moon."] 

    Hugo Cabret : That's the movie my Father saw!

    [the automaton signs Georges Méliès'name] 

    Isabelle : [amazed]  Georges Méliès. That's Papa Georges name. Why would your Father's machine sign Papa Georges' name?

    Hugo Cabret : I don't know.

    [picks up drawing and looks at robot] 

    Hugo Cabret : Thank you.

    [turns to Isabelle] 

    Hugo Cabret : It was a message from my Father. And now I have to figure it out.

  • Isabelle : I think we should be very... clandestine!

    Hugo Cabret : [not knowing what "clandestine" means]  Um, okay...

  • Isabelle : Thank you - for the movie today. It - it was a gift.

  • Isabelle : [wonders if she dares to ask the question]  Where do you live?

    Hugo Cabret : [Hugo looks at her for a minute, then turns and points to the giant clock at the train station across the bridge]  There.

  • Hugo Cabret : My father took me to the movies all the time. He told me about the first one he ever saw. He went into a dark room, and on a white screen, he saw a rocket *fly* - into the eye of the man in the moon. - It went straight in.

    Isabelle : Really?

    Hugo Cabret : He said it was like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day. The movies were our special place.

  • Isabelle : Christina Rossetti's her name, after the poetess. Would you like me to recite? "My heart is like a singing bird, Whose nest is in a water'd shoot, My heart is like an apple tree, Whose boughs are bent with thick-set..."

  • Isabelle : There's nothing wrong with crying. Sydney Carton cries. And Heathcliff, too. In books, they're crying all the time.

  • Isabelle : [reading from "The Invention of Dreams"]  "The filmmaker Georges Méliès was one of the first to realize that - films had the power - to capture dreams."

  • 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. The whole building was made of glass. In reality, this was to let in all the sunlight necessary for filming, but to my eyes, it was nothing short of - an enchanted castle. A palace made of glass.

  • Isabelle : Oh, this is superlative!

  • Mama Jeanne : What's going on, Isabelle?

    Isabelle : Oh, well, it's a terribly long story filled with circumlocutions.

  • Isabelle : Who are you?

    Hugo Cabret : Your grandfather stole my notebook. I've got to get it back before he burns it.

    Isabelle : Papa Georges isn't my grandfather. And he isn't a thief. You're the thief. You're nothing but a - a reprobate.

  • Isabelle : Come on.

    Hugo Cabret : Where are we going?

    Isabelle : Only to the most wonderful place on earth. It's Neverland and Oz and Treasure Island all wrapped into one.

  • Isabelle : Don't you like books?

    Hugo Cabret : No. No, I do. My father and I used to read Jules Verne together.

  • Hugo Cabret : Robin Hood. I saw this movie. With Douglas Fairbanks. Did you see that?

    Isabelle : I've never seen a movie.

  • Station Inspector : I love poetry, just - not in the station. We're here to either get on trains or get off them. Or, work in different shops. Is that clear?

    Isabelle : Yes, sir.

    Station Inspector : Watch your step.

  • Isabelle : Now, since I just saved your life, how about letting me see your covert lair?

  • Isabelle : This is marvelous. I feel just like Jean Valjean.

  • Monsieur Labisse : The Film Academy library. You'll find all you need to know about movies there. Second level, fourth row, section three, and, yes, top shelf. "The Invention of Dreams" by Ren Tabard. The Story of the First Movies.

    Hugo Cabret : [Hugo and Isabelle find the book and start to read]  "In 1895, 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."

    Isabelle : "When the train came speeding toward the screen, the audience screamed, because they thought they were in danger of being run over. No one had ever seen anything like it before."

    Hugo Cabret : "No one had ever seen anything like it before."

  • Isabelle : I wonder what my purpose is? I don't know.

  • 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.

  • Isabelle : I think I'm halfway in love with David Copperfield.

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