SciFlicks.com - Science Fiction Cinema
Home | Sci-Fi Movie Guides | Artists | SQUAD! Forums | Advertise!  
SciFlicks.com > All SciFlicks Guides > Metropolis > Review
 
Metropolis
 Details
    CAST & CREW
    REVIEW
    SQUAD! FORUM 
 Multimedia
    PICTURES
    QUOTES
 Memorabilia
    POSTERS
    DVD, CD, BOOK
 Miscellaneous
    FEEDBACK
    LINKS
METROPOLIS The Review

Human Rating: 3 / 5 Alien Rating: Crop Circle
 

Babel! Babel! Babel!

MetropolisMost audiences will know this film from the 1984 re-release running at 87 minutes with a soundtrack by disco king Giorgio (Midnight Express, Flashdance) Morroder.

The music's cack, but Morroder should be thanked for giving modern audiences a chance to view this hugely influential sci-fi classic and see where George Lucas got the idea for C3P0 and where Ridley Scott got some of his ideas for the futuristic Los Angeles in Blade Runner (1982).

MetropolisThey, of course, aren't the only fans of this film. Apparently Adolf Hitler was so impressed by the film - despite its very obviously socialist leanings! - that he got his propaganda minister Goebbels to offer its director (Fritz Lang) some kind of high post at his ministry. The legendary German expressionist director (who detested the Nazis) calmly listened to the proposal, said he would consider it and was on a plane to permanent exile in America by that evening! Sadly Lang's wife (who was more enamoured of the Nazis) declined to join him and the role envisaged for him was probably fulfilled later on by Leni Riefenstahl who gave Hitler (and the world) propagandistic "classics" such as Triumph of the Will (1934). After World War II Riefenstahl would claim that she never knew what the Nazis were on about. Maybe she didn't - but Fritz Lang as sure as hell did!

Review by James O'Ehley from The Sci-Fi Movie Page.

 
 
Metropolis Discussion Forum   Metropolis Discussion Forum  
  Share your thoughts on this flick!
Click here...
 
    Latest topics and reviews discussed:
ClayMissing scenes from Metropolis discovered!
So does this mean that another version will be released?...
More / Reply
SonnyOne of the Greatest SF Films Ever
[QUOTE][i] Originally posted by Omega2064 [/i] [B]Some of those film sets look huge too. The "di...
More / Reply
SonnyOriginal Movie Poster
I don't remember ever seeing that poster: looks impressive though, and the film was great as well ...
More / Reply
 

Explore
Related flicks:
Brazil
Soylent Green
Things to Come
more...

News
SciFlicks SQUAD!
SciFlicks SQUAD! Forums
Join Us.
Sci-Fi Movie:
Click here for ENEMY MINE
> more... 
Sci-Fi Artist:
Click here for PERSIS KHAMBATTA
Persis Khambatta
> more... 

Copyright © 1998-2024 – Popcorn Studios.
All Movie Material and Media Copyright © 1927 – Universum Film A.G.
All Rights Reserved. For Personal, Non-Profit Use Only. Refer to Legal Notices for Details.
SciFlicks.com - Science Fiction Cinema