The complicated machinery inside my automaton can produce one-hundred and fifty-eight different pictures, and it can wrote, letter, by letter, an entire book, twenty-six thousand one hundred and fifty-nine words. I enjoyed Martin Scorsese's 'Hugo,' an adaptation of Selznick's 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret,' which like 'Wonderstruck' told a tale of intrepid children uncovering the real stories of their. It can tel you the incredible story of Georges Melies, his wife, their goddaughter, and a beloved clock maker whose son grew up to be a magician. When you wind it up, it can do something I'm sure no other automaton in the world can do. I made every gear myself, carefully cut every brass disk, and fashioned every bt of machinery with my own hands. The automaton my father discovered did save me. Now that my cocoon has fallen away and I have emerged as a magician named Professor Alcofrisbas, I can look back and see that I was right. Once upon a time, I was a boy named Hugo Cabret, and I desperately believed that a broken automaton would save my life. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults. “Time can play all sorts of tricks on you.
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