See? If it weren't for Georges Méliès's magical genius, Isabelle and Hugo might never have found each other, and this awesome new family might never have been made. Tears were running down her cheeks in two thin, glimmering lines. So when he's reunited with them, thanks to a little help from Rene Talbard and Hugo, he can finally accept his past and be proud of his history, failures and all.Īnd now that they've all seen the movie, Hugo and Isabelle can share in the significance of Georges's achievements, as they do at the ceremony at the end of the novel:Īnd then, the last film shown was A Trip to the Moon. That movie, and the automaton, were some of Georges's greatest accomplishments. It's a nod to the wonderful history of the silver screen and a tribute to one of moviemaking's great innovators-Georges Méliès. For one thing, that image of the moon, with a spaceship landing in its eye, is one of the most famous shots in all of cinema. There’s a reason the automaton draws that particular scene instead of any other image from the movie. We're talking about the picture that the automaton draws and the movie that it’s from- A Trip to the Moon. My hunch is that this scene does not correspond to any real event but was intended as the sort of scene that Andy would have wanted in the film, another attempt to bewilder the audience and destroy any understanding what is real and what is imaginary.No, we’re not talking about our good friends Buzz and Neil. What is this scene about? Are we supposed to understand that after all this is the real Tony Clifton, not played by Andy or Bob or anyone else? Did this event occur? Were this scene in the film, and the event it depicts, both supposed to feed rumors that Andy was still alive, as the choice of the song "I Will Survive" obviously suggests? But then the camera moves around the room and we see Bob Zmuda in the audience. Top 10 romantic moon scenes in movies Unlock Super Powers, Login Now: Bruce Almighty Top 10 romantic moon scenes in movies Superman (1978) The Last: Naruto. Since we just watched Andy's funeral we suppose that Tony is again being portrayed by Bob Zmuda. Again the audience in the film is reacting happily as Tony does his performance. Then we see (obviously) this same person perform the song "I Will Survive" on stage - and it's Tony Clifton. The crowds cheer as someone arrives in a limo and emerges, clad in tux and with a bag over his head, and enters the theater. We see the funeral in the film, and in the next scene we see crowds standing outside a theater, and the message "One Year Later" is superimposed. A few moments later the film discloses that when both Andy and Tony are on stage together, Tony is played by Bob Zmuda, a friend of Andy's.Īs you might expect, Andy's funeral occurs fairly late in his career. The audience IN the film, as well as the actual audience OF the film, are confused how this could occur. In one scene, Tony is on stage before an audience, and audience are enjoying the performance as a satire of some sort, thinking that the "Tony" that they are seeing is really Andy in disguise. In early scenes, when Andy is not famous, audiences believe that Tony is what he appears to be but later, when Andy is a celebrity, audiences understand that Tony is a character played by Andy. One of the personas that Andy sometimes adopted was Tony Clifton, an obnoxious and terrible lounge singer. Man On The Moon is the story of the career of Andy Kaufman.