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
Reportedly one of Adolf Hitler's favourite films.
A part of me thinks he didn't quite get it...
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…
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,…
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 #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…
Overall, I am split on my opinion of this film. Aside from the story, the set design and general art direction was better than I had jnitially expected, and I see where later science fiction films have taken inspiration. For example, the shots of the city, made with miniatures and paint, can be seen replicated with CGI in more recent films (personally, I thought of the city scenes in the Star Wars prequel films). Moreover, these practical techniques are used in other later films, like the original Star Wars trilogy and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
However, my problem was with engaging with the plot; I could identify that it dealt with issues such as class and politics, but I felt that it was more extreme and too much of a spectacle for me to totally invest my feelings. But maybe it was like that because it’s a contextual thing - I guess the intended audience would react better to this.
Holds a special place in my heart. The movie which got me into movies as serious works of art as opposed to just entertainment. I must have been 14 or 13, probably playing nintendo when my dad called me into the living room for a movie. I asked what was on, and he said the oldest science fiction movie ever made. Back then I wasn't keen on black and white movies (let alone silent movies) but I was entranced by it for the whole running time.
People (including Lang himself) often criticize this movie for its supposed incoherence, but like Akira I believe that the specifics here aren't terribly important and that this is greater then the sum of it's parts. It sounds somewhat trite I know, but I think this movie is more of an experience then a narrative, or perhaps a fairytale for grownups.
dieser film ist fantastisch. dafür, dass er uralt ist, fühlt er sich erfrischend neu an. die kamerawinkel sind experimentell. es besteht nur aus geilen bildern. die effekte sind alle praktisch und sehen phänomenal aus! ich weiß gar nicht, was ich noch hinzufügen soll..metropolis ist einer der besten filme die ich jemals gesehen hab. ein sehr sehr schönes stück bild, dass hoffentlich immer ein wichtiger teil der filmgeschichte bleibt.
Metropolis is a 1927 silent film by German expressionist filmmaker Fritz Lang. I adore this movie; it's one of my favorites. The special effects for the time are pretty fantastic, the cinematography is really good, and the story is really well told with the limitation of no dialogue. This movie entranced me from the first frame. This is masterful filmmaking at its finest.
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