Long before he was portraying the man at his worst, Martin Scorsese was a nut 3-D.
He received the error message 11 years, watching Vincent Price House of Wax in the New York Academy of Theater Street Music 14. Thunderstruck has left, whose picture.
"I went home and cut out pictures of books, magazines, anything I could find," says Scorsese. "I could cut and paste a shoe in another image, then another, to give the context, what background as 3-D. I knew I wanted to make a film that could."
That day is Wednesday with Hugo, a film so personal and so far from the cockpit of the director as he has gained over the years.
Part Pinocchio, part Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a 2007 adaptation of Hugo's picture book-Invention of Hugo Cabret marks the first foray Scorsese 3-D technology of 69 years, says he should never go out of fashion.
