Hugo

Continuity mistake: Lighting on the automaton changes between shots when Hugo uncovers it for the first time, notice the structure underneath: from hidden to visible.

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Continuity mistake: When Frick greets the lady for the first time, a waiter suddenly appears next to her in the second angle.

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Continuity mistake: At the toy-shop, Hugo empties his pocket and Méliès places his hand over the cloth and then takes it back. From the opposite angle, the hand is still over the cloth.

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Continuity mistake: When Hugo is walking with his uncle, carrying the automaton, the way he holds it differs between the first and second shot.

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Continuity mistake: When Hugo is outside Isabelle's place for the first time, he is standing by the middle of a brick column. When the angle changes he is by its side.

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Continuity mistake: After the automaton stops, Hugo slouches on a sofa. His position differs completely between one frame and another.

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Continuity mistake: When the inspector crashes against the band of musicians, the mess on the floor differs between the first shot and the one following.

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Continuity mistake: When the kids are reading in the library and the author shows up, the kids flip all the pages and then the book appears pointing upwards or downwards.

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Continuity mistake: When the inspector first approaches the flower girl, a luggage porter passes behind him. When the angle changes, the man is meters behind, repeating his previous movements.

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Continuity mistake: There is a scene where Hugo is on the station and sees a key down on the tracks. There are two separate shots of the key and both times it is buried in the stones next to a sleeper. Then Hugo jumps down onto the tracks to pick it up and its now sat on the middle of the sleeper when he picks it up. (01:22:30 - 01:23:10)

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Hugo Cabret: I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.

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Trivia: Shortly after Hugo drops a piece of metal from the suspending clock to the ground of the train station, the Station Inspector, assuming that Claude dropped it, loudly asks him if he is 'drunk, inebriated, shikker, etc.' The work shikker is from the Hebrew word shikkor for 'drunk'. Shikker actually means drunkard.

Allister Cooper, 2011

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Question: What song is playing in the background when the Station Inspector is flirting with the Flower Girl and asks her about her flowers?

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