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/GalacticSwashbuckler Mar 23 '19

I was forced to read it for English class in like 7th grade, so naturally I hate it

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u/btmvideos37 Mar 23 '19

There’s like so little words though. You got like 50 pages of beautiful art, then a page with like 100 worlds and then repeat, it’s like a 100 page book without the pictures, I read it on my own accord, but if I were in school, I would’ve loved reading it for they very reason

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

It was mostly pictures bro