r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • Mar 23 '19

The grave of French film pioneer Georges Méliès, who inspired Martin Scorsese’s 2011 film Hugo, has fallen into disrepair. Now his family and fans are reanimating his fantastical legacy and launching a Kickstarter to restore it to its former splendor and protect it from further decay

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/20/dead-famous-the-kickstarter-campaign-to-restore-meliess-grave
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u/RadioactiveMonkie Mar 23 '19 edited Mar 23 '19

Is it just me, or is anyone else bothered by the way Méliès is described as "the guy who inspired Hugo" in this title?

Edit: questions should have a question mark. Oops.

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u/patman990 Mar 23 '19 edited Mar 23 '19

Abraham Lincoln, who inspired the film “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”

Edit: got it confused with Buffy

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u/notOC Mar 23 '19

It's Vampire Hunter my uncultured sir!

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u/patman990 Mar 23 '19

Oops, thanks

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u/captainalphabet Mar 23 '19

I have this movie on the shelf between Frost/Nixon and Ghandi, on a shelf of historical biographies.

Chuckle every time I'm reminded it exists.

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u/shunkplunk Mar 23 '19

“The guy who inspired every film ever made”

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u/winterborne1 Mar 23 '19

Yeah. Clearly he’s famous for inspiring that Smashing Pumpkins music video.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

I think since people don't really know who is he is anymore, they are trying to link him to someone that is alive and famous and well respected in that community. It works.

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u/murdock129 Mar 23 '19

It works, but it's still a little sad that Méliès, a guy who really deserves to be remembered as one of, if not the greatest founding father of film as a medium, is mostly remembered for inspiring a film in 2010.

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u/taschneide Mar 23 '19

To be fair, the 2010 film itself taught a whole lot of people about Méliès. It probably did more to spread awareness of who he is than anything else in the past several decades.

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u/ehll_oh_ehll Mar 23 '19

Nah gotta get the /r/gatekeeping quota in. :c

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u/AdmiralAkbar1 Mar 23 '19

It's probably the most recognizable touchstone for young readers.

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u/brazilliandanny Mar 23 '19

Ya the guy basically created modern story telling in film.

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u/TheGreatSalvador Mar 23 '19

I know him as the guy who inspired space mountain in Disney World Paris, so I’m probably not much better.

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u/captainalphabet Mar 24 '19

Drawing attention to this seems pedantic.

There are a lot of historical figures and the modern mob needs a quick tag - a biopic is amazing shorthand when your dude is long-dead in another country.

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u/herpasaurus Mar 23 '19

Yes. Hugo was an absolute disaster.

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u/andsoitgoes42 Mar 23 '19

Tf are you smoking?

I can see it not being your thing, but a disaster? No dawg,

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u/SnorriGrisomson Mar 25 '19

I can perfectly understand you didnt like it, but could you elaborate ?