Decades Project: 1/2 of the 20's

"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…

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…

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,…

As a pseudo-connoisseur of film, I’m always trying to learn more about the industry outside of my immediate interests. To expand my horizons, I looked into a list created by Turner Classic Movies: 52 movies deemed “must see” and why. To start things off, I began with a 1920s two-and-a-half-hour German silent sci-fi film: “Metropolis.”

Off the bat, I’ll say this wasn’t really my type of movie. My earliest favorite films came out in the 40s and sci-fi isn’t my go-to genre. On top of that, I get antsy during movies, so trying not to look at my phone for almost three hours so I could pay attention to the plot was difficult for me.

The film takes place in…