1927 Directed by Fritz Lang
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Brigitte Helm Alfred Abel Gustav Fröhlich Rudolf Klein-Rogge Fritz Rasp Theodor Loos Erwin Biswanger Heinrich George Olaf Storm Helene Weigel Margarete Lanner Hanns Leo Reich Fritz Alberti Heinrich Gotho Grete Berger Curt Siodmak Rolf von Goth Helen von Münchofen Georg John Arthur Reinhardt Henrietta Siodmak
Reportedly one of Adolf Hitler's favourite films.
A part of me thinks he didn't quite get it...
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"But the hands that built the Tower of Babel knew nothing of the dream of the head that conceived it. The hymns of praise of one man became the curses of others."
Fun fact: Metropolis is actually just Star Wars in disguise. A rebellious young man joins a group of underdogs and learns the ways of a strange religion while on a quest to overthrow his tyrannical father's evil empire by destroying its greatest creation. That's right, Fritz Lang was secretly a no-talent hack using a time machine to steal ideas from the future.
So if that doesn't make it obvious enough, I'll just come right out and say it: I have a new…
90/100
MKE Film Fest #4
('The Complete Metropolis' with live performance by the Alloy Orchestra)
"For her - all seven deadly sins!"
Truly a dream alive on the screen. Continues to be immensely influential - so much so that naming all the examples could result in its very own click-bait list (I'm sure there's already one out in the wild) - and each frame is lush, crisp, and inventive in a way that is astonishing - even more so today. The final 20 minutes, combined with the tremendous Alloy Orchestra score reverberating within the theater, are as climatic as cinema gets, rising towards the heavens, a hero fully reborn.
Film School Drop Outs Challenge 2017 Week 3 - Movement - German Expressionism (1920-1927)
Ach Mein Gott...!
Metropolis has a whole heck of a lot going on. Class conflict, generational squabbles, unchecked scientific progress, spirituality and romantic notions, demagoguery and popular revolt. All of it melds together into an action packed dystopian melodrama on an epic scale. It apparently took Fritz Lang a whole year to make Metropolis, thousands of people were engaged as extras and it was the most expensive film he ever made.
Hitler must have made good use of this film. It was apparently amongst his favourites and would have been easy to co-opt for his political agenda. Much like Soviet dialectical montage films from this period,…
Film #14 of Project 20
”There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.”
In a pessimistic depiction of human race’s future Fritz Lang mixes the elements of sci-fi cinema with politics, religion and mythology to create an extremely gripping and utterly compelling piece of cinema which with its dark portrayal of future life and its poetic look at human relationships holds enough power and glory to mesmerize, shock and provoke the viewers , Metropolis is the jewel in the crown of silent cinema and a movie which showcases the matchless charm of storytelling through the marriage of riveting musical pieces with mind-bending images.
One thing about Metropolis which thrills the viewers…
Fuck this film. Fritz Lang is a really lazy director. One of his films was just called M! Jebuzz Cripes! The guy couldn't be fucking arsed to write a proper title for his bullshit, and all of the characters were talking in a made up language and there was writing all over the screen and I heard a rumour that this guy is a German! I saw the anime version of this Metropolis film and I thought that it wasn't very good. That is an observation that I made and then I wrote it down. I'm now an film critique. This dumb-ass film is shot in the black and the white which is the stupidest shit that the cavemen ever…
Alleine für den Aufwand, der nötig war um diesen Film zu realisieren muss man Fritz Lang allergrößten Respekt zollen. Ich meine es war 1927 und das Ergebnis ist einfach atemberaubend. Sicher ist die Geschichte aus heutiger Sicht sehr rürseelig und das Ende mehr als kitschig, aber alles andere hat mich extrem beeindruckt.
Overwhelming. That's the only word big enough to describe this film. A gobsmackingly epic, incidentally Marxist (but also fascist???), operatic, bombastic fairy tale ballet that seems, itself, like a remarkable achievement for mankind. Can't imagine anyone that wouldn't get immediately captured by its superlative, magnetic full-blown symphonic music and images that somehow feel just as equally unfathomably grandiose, however I'm sure everyone who's ever saw this in a class would dispute it. Perhaps the very last scene/title-card could've been something entirely different to end on a proper high note, but that's nitpicking at its best.
PS: I'm adding seeing this with a live orchestra to my incredibly minimalist, without mentioning fictional, bucket list.
For a long, serious, silent drama this was incredible. The sets and scenery were amazing and ambitious. Touches on subjects we still struggle with. I can't believe a silent movie that wasn't a comedy didn't bore me.
Film Studies Movie #3
Fritz Lang assembles an eye-opening visual extravaganza here, bringing an ambitious science fiction spectacle to the screen and at the same time telling a true underdog tale that literally demands a rise against the machines. If you can get past the silent film format it’s an engrossing watch despite its lengthy running time. And the use of classical music is mostly on point and adequately enhances the drama.
What a technological marvel. I saw the restored version with the original music and it was glorious.
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