Romantic Fantasy of the Last Century

Mallory 2022-03-19 09:01:04

Advanced, magnificent, romantic

The coordinator of the brain and the hand is the heart. The interpretation of the Tower of Babel is interesting from the perspective of biblical metaphors of reality, although it may be too idealistic.

Another point is the attitude towards technology. Total exclusion would bring destruction, and the pioneer creators of technology and humanoid machines were the devil incarnate. Does it reflect a hidden worry about the unknown direction of technological development and a sense of contradiction in the reality that we must rely on technology to survive?

It can be seen that the idea of ​​dungeon, metropolis, videophone, etc. had a huge impact on the later science fiction telecommunications. Is it classified as a cyberpunk movie based on the high-tech, low-life portrayal of dungeons? It's just that the core seems to be far away from punk, and the answers to the same questions in the movies no longer have the romantic feelings and optimistic expectations in the movies.

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Extended Reading
  • Cory 2022-04-23 07:01:40

    Look at the 150m version. Serious class division. The Seven Deadly Sins of the Bible, Revelation, Noah's Ark. The sci-fi elements are very advanced, the underground traffic is crowded, the high multiple overpasses, the planes, the architectural styles are diverse, modern, and artificial intelligence. The heroine did a great job! Good as the Virgin, evil as ghosts. This film is now, no matter how it won the best picture, director, script, and actress award. The visual and sound effects were also superb for that era.

  • Alyson 2022-03-23 09:01:39

    Metropolis was the largest film production of the year, shooting 2 million feet of film and employing 25,000 male actors, 11,000 actresses and 750 child actors. The film’s first-shot completed version lasted three and a half hours, and the German premiere version lasted 153 minutes (the film length was 4,189 meters and was projected at 24 frames per second), and was later edited by the distributor into a two-hour version at Released in Germany and overseas. However, based on factors such as box office revenue and political censorship, the versions released around the world in the past were edited versions with more than half of the content deleted and the length of the film varied. Since the Second World War, the original master film of the film has been scattered all over the world and it is difficult to find it. Although it has been re-screened many times in the past, it is not the complete version of the original. In 2001, the restored version led by the Murnau Foundation was presented at the Berlin Film Festival. After years of excavation and research, about a quarter of the fragments are believed to be permanently lost. In the same year, it was listed as a World Documentary Heritage by UNESCO. In 2008, at the Film Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a 16-centimeter copy of the film was found, and about 23 minutes of missing footage were found. ...

Metropolis quotes

  • The Machine Man: [disguised as Maria] Leave the machines - ! Let them race to their death -! To the Heart Machine - !

  • Joh Frederson: [Talking on a video phone] Open the gates! Open the gates, I said!

    Grot - the Guardian of the Heart Machine: If the Heart Machine is destroyed the entire machine district will end up in ruins - !