The Invention of Hugo Cabret: the Comparing and Contrasting of the Movie and Book

The story is about a boy, named Oskar. Who is trying to cope with the loss of his father, who died in the attacks on 9/11. He discovers a key in his father’s belongings and tries to find the matching lock.

When novels are adapted for the cinema, directors and writers frequently make changes in the plot, setting, characterization and themes of the novel. Sometimes the changes are made in adaptations due to the distinctive interpretations of the novel, which involve personal views of the book and choices of elements to retain, reproduce, change or leave out. On the contrary, a film is not just an illustrated version of the novel; it is a totally different medium. When adapting the novel, the director has to leave out a number of things for the simple reason of time difference. Furthermore, other structures and techniques must be added to the film to enhance the beauty and impressions of it. Like a

Brian Selznick’s fictional novel, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” contained a variety of language techniques. This essay will explain how Selznick used a vast array of language techniques throughout the book such as adjectives, many metaphors and similes.The reasons for this are to create meaning in the story and to keep the readers engaged and so they won’t lose interest in the book.

Everyone has been broken. Maybe some people still are and maybe others have been put back together by friends or loved ones. The fact still remains that everyone is or has been broken, and there is no way to stop that from happening. In Brian Selznick’s book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, he touches on this topic on nearly every page. Many - if not all - his characters are broken in some way or another.

Throughout majority of the movie you think the guy is doing everything wrong. You start to question his parenting skills when you see that their apartment is filled with toys, and that he doesn’t send her to school but instead go to Disneyland. Then, the twist comes and you realize that you've been seeing things all wrong. He just wants his daughter to have the best life and spent the most possible time with her, because he found out that her daughter is going to die. Despite the movie being in mostly Spanish, the message translated through this film will tug at your heartstrings. From the beginning to the end there is combinations of laughs and emotions that through one way or another anyone can relate. It talks about the challenges and sacrifices parents have to face for their children. It also shows, that parents go out of their way and will risk many things to protect their children from getting hurt, even from their own families. Also, how important it is to spend family and quality time with their children because, we are not guaranteed how much time we will have with

The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick, 2007) tells the story of a mysterious young boy named Hugo, living in the walls of a Paris train station in 1931. It follows Hugo’s adventures, dreams, thoughts, and most of all, his quest to answer the many questions he has about his past. The Invention of Hugo Cabret “is a graphic novel that successfully alternates slabs of written texts with pages of black and white illustrations” (Lawn, 2012, Para 4). It is discovered firstly, how words and images work together to portray action and suspense. And secondly, how the words and images together arouse emotion from the reader and draw in the audience. These tools and techniques

The film portrays the life of two young best

This movie hits viewers in the heart with real children. He uses five children ranging from first to eighth grade that have hit hard times, and are simply trying to secure a better future for themselves.

The renowned film ‘Au revoir les enfants’ directed by Louis Malle shows the lives of boys in a boarding school that is run by priests. Three new students (including Bonnet) arrive whom at first appear to be like Julien (the protagonist) and the rest of the boys. However, it is soon revealed that they are Jewish children who are kept hidden by the staff at the school – especially when there are raids from the German occupiers. The use of character development is prominently used to convey the historic background that is World war two. Julien, who is one the of main protagonists represents the director (Louis Malle) at the Catholic boarding school in France. This choice of character gives the viewers the closest representation of what occurred in the Second world war even though it is depicted through a film that contains fiction.

One of the biggest connects with the book and the movie is the connection with him and the dogs. He is very protective and has them as his pride and joy. He sticks up for them and is proud and raises then to be the best. He focuses on then till the end. When they die and the red fern grows he knows he raised good pups because of the old native american

A very interesting movie On Golden Pond. Not only learning as you get older there are a lot of changes as well when exploring your adolescent’s years. Confusing, anxiety, anger, and a lot more feelings that occur throughout the journey to late adulthood. The movie was mainly on the characters Billy, Chelsea, Ethel, and Norman who were viewed dealing with biological, cognitive, sociological experiences while dealing with obstacles of family struggles.

As I read this novel, I find my self-thinking what is going to happen next. It is sad reading about the situation Vianne, Sophie and Isabelle have to face because of the War and the Germans. It’s hard

The characters in the film Father, Mother and the two sons are in high conflict, low resolution with very fragile system with having children compelled to take sides with parents who they are identifying and idolizing. This leads to obvious developmental immobility in children in all the areas of their functioning; school life and peers, interpersonal relationship skills, identification, appropriate expression of their feelings and emotions etc.

It was in a large, packed cinema that I first viewed Hugo in 2011. During this initial viewing it had not occurred to me that this film was a spectacle of the history of cinema. However, upon revisiting the film with a more developed understanding of film history, I was delighted to be able to acknowledge its nods and winks to the beginnings of cinema. Hugo, for me, represents an unorthodox marriage of the cinematic celluloid tradition and the innovation of digital technologies, that ultimately highlights the transition film has experienced.

In his novel, Les Miserables, Victor Hugo identifies the principle social evils of French society through the actions and qualities of his characters. By depicting each of his characters’ struggles through destitute and oppressed measures, Hugo is able to identify the social errors of 19th century France. The fact that characters such as Valjean, Javert, Fantine, and Cosette, attempt to rise above poverty and redeem themselves indicate that such inequalities did, and still do, exist to this day. Through the use of feminist ideals and the criminal injustice system, Hugo attacks the principle social evils that each of his characters face in Les Miserables.