I remember watching this movie in some other class, but I can't remember which.
Anyway, this was Metropolis, the movie about a robot that use the innocence of a pure young lady to take over the people's minds and destroy the city. I'm kinda confused as to why the big boss man, (Joh? was that his name) told Rotvang to make the robot look like the girl. If he hadn't done that and the people would've gone on longer without destroying the heart machine. She was the only reason they hadn't done so already. (It turns out you cant tab on here, now my post is gonna look like a big blob).
I really want to know how they did the special effects for this movie, for today's standards they're awful but considering movies were still barely beginning they're pretty cool. I thought the ending was nice how they tied it all back to the "mediator prophecy". But what about the new city? How will they rebuild it, will everyone help, or will it be the same people with nicer conditions. I'm still curious as to what happened to the newborns. They probably all died, thanks to the dumb mob. smh @ the mob. smh. I like how they all just mindlessly went to kill the problem without thinking. I'm glad they killed the robot and not the real Maria, that would have been tragic. Imagine leading a people and giving them hope for years, watching ad caring for them, and then they burn you at the stake. How did she even get down there anyway, was she already a worker there, but then she ascended to prophet character or what. That was weird.
I didnt like the whole "down with capitalism" thing, it seemed really forced down. But the factories were probably worse than I can imagine, and the poverty that bad, so idk.
Yeah, I also wonder if ANYTHING changed in the city, or if they just rebuilt it the same as before, with shorter working hours and better safety conditions. I guess that would be a step forward...and I guess I shouldn't ASSUME that equality is the state we're automatically striving for, but it's hard not to!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading this, the slang helps. You make a true argument- that mob was dumb.
ReplyDeleteYou bring up a good point, how do they fix the city after the disaster? Maybe, that's the point of the "heart". Also about the tab problem (I just pressed the space bar a few times)
ReplyDeleteI think the special effects were interesting too. Most of them were double exposures and really difficult time consuming techniques. Here's a link that explains them (you have to scroll down to Metropolis).
ReplyDeletehttp://www.filmsite.org/visualeffects4.html
I agree that the message of the movie had no subtlety. Like your lingo, bro.
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