I liked Metropolis. Silent film, slightly boring, yes . . . but only because Michael Bay has conditioned us with explosions and shaky cam. I was impressed with the visuals, and the conveyance of the story through imagery and mild dialogue. The symbolism may have been heavy handed, but . . . silent film and […]
Honestly, I had a really hard time watching this movie. Because it was a silent film, and one that didn’t hold my interest, I constantly found myself getting distracted doing other things like looking at facebook on my phone or texting, then when I would look back up at the movie I would be lost […]
Seeing Metropolis about two years ago I didn’t think much of it. I couldn’t finish the whole thing on regular speed so I watched half of it on 1.5, and boy was that a lot of fun. If you thought things were exaggerated normally check it out at this speed. The best part about it […]
Watching a silent movie is always an entirely different experience than watching a talkie because every detail gains importance. If Metropolis was to be remade I think it would lose a lot simply because the same amount of attention would not be shown to each moment of the film. The action scenes would be improved […]
The movie Metropolis seemed to encompass elements from every novel that we have read in class thus far. There was a heavy sense of religion in the working class. The movie was set in a grand city with skyscrapers, planes, cars, trains, and lights. The laborers worked underground, while the bustling city above lived in […]
After watching the film, Metropolis, my mind was in all sorts of different places. With it being a silent film, I had a hard time following it through. This was due probably because we are used to viewing things in sound, where you don’t need to keep reading and focusing on what is being acted. […]
Waiting to watch Metropolis towards the end of the semester was really beneficial to my understanding of the class so far. We read many books so far about utopias and dystopias and in our heads we constructed a picture of what those places might look like. So, having to watch the movie after reading these books […]
Metropolis was filmed in 1927 and was the first most expensive film made of this genre. For this being the first feature length move of this genre I believe it turned out pretty good. I believe this film does a great job showing the technolo gy available for film to use. I however, did not […]
The gaps between the worker class and owner/wealthy upper class in the novels and movie that we watched is getting interesting. Technology may be a factor but what’s standing is the gaps, at first Granville, and Shelly their was just an upper class doing what it wanted with science or telling the future. But now […]
I chose to watch the 1984 version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. This version placed current (1984) music as the soundtrack for the original 1927 version of this black and white film. The original music by Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Lover Boy, and Bonnie Tyler (just to name a few of the artists involved) gave me […]
After watching Metropolis and the past couple of dystopian novels that we have been reading, a song keeps popping in my head. It is a song by Elvis Costello called, “This is Hell.” As I watched Metropolis and especially while reading We, the chorus of “This is Hell” just keeps playing in my head. Metropolis […]