{"id":678,"date":"2008-08-28T17:54:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=678"},"modified":"2020-12-11T15:57:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:57:05","slug":"metropolis-1927-fritz-lang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/678","title":{"rendered":"Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Checked out a nicely high-quality (if slightly trapezoidal) digital projection of the new edition, pleasingly crowded for a Thursday night.  On one hand, Metropolis was plenty long enough, and each scene has always seemed to go on a bit too long (Jimmy didn&#8217;t come, saying &#8220;I&#8217;ve slept through Metropolis enough times, thanks&#8221;), but it&#8217;s still nice to have more of the film available for study.  Half the cut scenes involve &#8220;the thin man,&#8221; hired by Mr. Frederson to spy on his little raised-consciousness son, who only makes a cameo in the pre-Argentina footage.  And it&#8217;s easy to tell the footage apart, since the new stuff comes from a scratchy, shrunken 16mm print.<\/p>\n<p>Wrote nothing special in August 2008:<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nKaty doesn&#8217;t want to participate in 2005 Month or in Shocktober, so there&#8217;s a semi-theme-multi-month going on with 1920&#8217;s Movies instead, beginning with this, one of the most famous and celebrated of the 1920&#8217;s Movies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/metropolis1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/metropolis2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/metropolis3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/metropolis4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT DEC 2020:<\/strong> watched a restoration of the Giorgio Moroder version, of all the crazy things.  The narrative intertitles remain, but for dialogue they use subtitles over the person speaking, a nice touch.  The music is fine&#8230; if not for the vocal songs!  I didn&#8217;t know about these&#8230; what a bad idea.  But even a bad soundtrack cannot ruin <em>Metropolis<\/em>, and I guess Moroder&#8217;s efforts helped preserve the film, so it&#8217;s fine, new wave forever.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Phipps in AV Club:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where Lang&#8217;s film still looks timeless, Moroder&#8217;s music remains grounded in the time of Reagan and early MTV. (That&#8217;s doubly true of the songs, which sound like castoffs even by the standards of, say, Loverboy.) The film feels quaint in a way other incarnations of Metropolis don&#8217;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checked out a nicely high-quality (if slightly trapezoidal) digital projection of the new edition, pleasingly crowded for a Thursday night. On one hand, Metropolis was plenty long enough, and each scene has always seemed to go on a bit too long (Jimmy didn&#8217;t come, saying &#8220;I&#8217;ve slept through Metropolis enough times, thanks&#8221;), but it&#8217;s still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[526,527,5,454],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1920s","tag-expressionism","tag-fritz-lang","tag-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13975,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/13975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}