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.
Alfred Abel Gustav Fröhlich Rudolf Klein-Rogge Fritz Rasp Theodor Loos Erwin Biswanger Heinrich George Brigitte Helm 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
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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…
blade runner is just metropolis for people who are too impatient to sit through a silent movie
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.
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,…
Me gusta mucho Fritz Lang pero con esta película siempre siento que hay una parte muy desaprovechada con la representación de la clase obrera. La fotografía es hermosísima y no se puede creer todo el laburo que tiene en gral.
Film School Drop Outs 2019
Week 6 - Movement - German Weimar Cinema (1919-1933)
It's easy to see why this is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. Despite being 2 and a half hours long, the film never gets boring, in part because of the fantastic score, and the time just flies by. The story is quite simple but it is told in a magnificent way with the help of gigantic and gorgeous sets as well as thousands of extras overflowing the screen in some scenes. And in the middle of all these extras is Brigitte Helm, who was 20 at the time, and who gives an incredible double performance. In addition to all of this, the anti capitalist and socialist message at the center of the film is still as relevant today as it was when this was made over 90 years ago.
2010 Remastering. Phenomenal.
I read this is only about 90% remastered and my god it’s already outstanding. The added soundtrack was spot on in my opinion but I would love to hear artist renditions.
i‘ve never seen a silent film or a film that old, so this was a very new experience for me. and i loved it.
there is this movie poster of Metropolis in my history class room in school, that i‘ve been fascinated by, since i started going to school there. (about half a year now) i would look at it and be kinda interested in it, since i really enjoy the history of ww1 + ww2, but i never looked any further into it.
I cannot explain why i procrastinated watching this movie up until now.
since it‘s a silent film, you have to be attentive, which is a quality i love in movies. there are some movies today that…
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