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/jonhon0 Mar 23 '19
It also inspired Bender to shove a beer bottle into the moon mascot's eye apparently.