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.
Gustav Fröhlich Brigitte Helm Alfred Abel Rudolf Klein-Rogge Theodor Loos Fritz Rasp Erwin Biswanger Heinrich George Fritz Alberti Grete Berger Olly Boeheim Heinrich Gotho Gottfried Huppertz Georg John Margarete Lanner Rose Lichtenstein Hanns Leo Reich Arthur Reinhardt Curt Siodmak Henrietta Siodmak Olaf Storm Rolf von Goth Helen von Münchofen Helene Weigel
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Reportedly one of Adolf Hitler's favourite films.
A part of me thinks he didn't quite get it...
me: yeah i'm definitely smart enough to understand the plot of this movie even if it's silent
my inability to tell white men apart: 👁👄👁
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…
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.
Still as magnificent, scary, and thought provoking, Metropolis is epic and timeless.
Just as with Harold and Maude, this film holds a very special place in my heart given when I first watched it. I first saw this movie in high school, just out of curiosity and it blew me away. It really garnered my love for classic film. I remember searching for a good place to watch the newly restored and complete version of the original film, and staying up until 1:30 to watch it. It opened my eyes to another time and place, having the same struggles and desires as I do, watching this 90 year old film. Film is an amazing time capsule in that way.
The…
maria: "yeah i'm looking for a mr. rotwang, first name C.A...."
moe: "hey anybody here C.A. ROTWANG??! cmon guys, i wanna C.A. ROTWANG!!"
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…
Possibly the most celebrated director from Germany's school of expressionism, Fritz Lang unfolds Metropolis in a procession of impressive scenes and it’s an undeniable science-fiction classic. Written by Thea von Harbou, in collaboration with Lang, it commenced principal photography in 1925 and evolved unique ideas and techniques for the science-fiction genre.
From the enormous design and scale of the Art Deco sets to it’s governmentally fused medieval themes, along with the remarkable strangeness of the imagery conveyed by the elegant mechanical replicant by Brigitte Helm, it’s the astonishing design of the movie that continues as its genuine distinction, which is even present in the maze-like intricacies of the employees' residence. Fritz Lang creates a haunting conception of industrial industry and it’s accompanied by a beautiful and original score by Gottfried Huppertz.
It’s baffling to me how a complete version of this movie was never restored until 2010. Even in that version, a lot of the footage was damaged or completely missing. In regards to that, the damaged footage would still be shown in its lowest quality, and the lost footage would be replaced by intertitles to explain what you’re supposed to be seeing.
It’s a shame because this is easily one of the greatest films released from the 1920s. Black-and-white cinematography has never looked better. This time, Fritz Lang’s set designs and world-building are at a massive scale, and he has clearly honed this skill to near perfection. He was such an accomplished artist and brilliantly ahead of his time, profound…
Metropolis is a gargantuan tale of epic biblical proportions that absolutely deserves all its acclaim. Massively influential and consistently engaging, it just continued to wow me. For its time, the art design, cinematography, effects, score are all simply amazing. They remain timeless and hard hitting.
The narrative is spellbinding and as you watch it, so many films you’ve seen before pop into your head as you realise this came well before all of them. There are some scenes that I’ll never forget such as the hallucination scene where it is unprecedented what they do to create these effects. Having physically experimented with celluloid film to achieve extremely basic effects myself, I have no idea how they did some of these things.
A two and half hour silent film might seem like work to some but this sure wasn’t for me. It’s on YouTube so go check it out and tick it off the essential viewing list if you haven’t.
a total raygun gothic dream where the scope is as deep and piercing as any epic being released today, the likes of which i've only been exposed to in films like Blade Runner, for which this film understandably influenced that one a shit ton. it may be silent, but you can feel the weight of every steam alarm, every light flickering, every drop of water. its physicality and mania are totally exhausting, but in the best way possible in what i imagine was fritz langs' intention. i can only imagine what this was like a theater.
