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In Reply to: The restored Metropolis (Fritz Lang) and more: posted by Audiophilander on August 26, 2002 at 09:45:31:
The Georgio Moroder version from the 1980's had a soundtrack that was quickly more dated than the film, so an update of a less disjointed version, especially on the big screen, would have been well worth your travel.
I think every science fiction film made since owes something to Metropolis. To see an audience react to the "electricity arcing" laboratory sequence; where the evil Rotwang creates the Robot Maria, is something that's never been bettered in film IMHO, tho' many have tried. Compare this to say the Robert de Niro "creation" sequence in (1990's) Frankenstein and see that 80 years has done nothing to dilute the cinematic power of those few Metropolis scenes.
The medieval city seen in cityscape and cathedral interiors/exterior scenes was Dresden, scenes that would not have existed after WW-II
A TV screen is clearly seen when J. Frieder, master of Metropolis talks by TV/Phone to an engineer, filmed in 1924, when TV was not even invented until 1936, and a digital clock appears, something else that was a first.
Eric
Tokyo*
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