Hugo

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: After Hugo and Isabelle see the picture of the moon printed on the book, their hands alternate between being on the book, to away from the book, between angles.

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Continuity mistake: After Frick gives the Dachshund, the Inspector looks at his watch and puts it in his pocket. When the angle changes, he is looking at his watch again and repeating all previous movements.

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Continuity mistake: After Hugo's been saved by the inspector, he holds onto the automaton while being threatened by the cop. Méliès arrives and shouts, and for a brief moment the way Hugo holds the automaton completely changes.

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Continuity mistake: The first time the doberman dog chases Hugo, it enters a hallway and skids. The passers-by behind differ between shots.

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Continuity mistake: When Hugo gives Mrs. Méliès the drawing, her hands change positions between the wide and the close-up angles.

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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: In the scene where the automaton stops drawing in Hugo's lair, in a close up there is a mysterious red spot on our right of Hugo's chin, but in the rest of the movie the spot is gone.

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: Director Martin Scorsese cameos as Méliès' photographer when he opens his studio.

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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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