metropolis

Gerda 2022-04-19 09:01:41

Jon Fryderson represents the ruling class or the bourgeoisie, the brain, and without his wisdom, a prosperous metropolis cannot be built with the brute force of the workers alone. Workers represent the working class, and without their workforce, no brainer, no great idea can come true. If class differentiation is inevitable, then the two classes are in a symbiotic relationship. The effective cooperation of the two classes can make human society develop and progress, otherwise, it will lead to division and collapse. Therefore, the concept of "coordinator" is introduced, and finally the brain and hands shake hands through the coordinator. In my opinion, it is a kind of utopian vision of the author's social governance.

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  • 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

  • Freder: MOLOCH!

  • Freder: To the new Tower of Babel - to my father - !