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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Raygun Gothic | | | |  Raygun Gothic: Encyclopedia II - Metropolis 1927 film - PlotThe film is set in the year 2026, in the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title. Society has been divided into two rigid groups: one of planners or thinkers, who live high above the earth in luxury, and another of workers who live underground toiling to sustain the lives of the privileged. The city is run by Johhan 'Joh' Fredersen (Alfred Abel).
The beautiful and evangelical figure Maria (Brigitte Helm) takes up the cause of the workers. She advises the desperate workers not to start a ...
See also:Metropolis 1927 film, Metropolis 1927 film - Plot, Metropolis 1927 film - Themes, Metropolis 1927 film - Architecture & visual effects, Metropolis 1927 film - Restorations & re-releases, Metropolis 1927 film - Soundtracks & scores, Metropolis 1927 film - Political significance, Metropolis 1927 film - Influence, Metropolis 1927 film - Trivia Read more here: » Metropolis 1927 film: Encyclopedia II - Metropolis 1927 film - Plot |
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| | | | Raygun Gothic: Encyclopedia II - Metropolis 1927 film - Political significance Metropolis's theme is connected with both fascism and communism - the most powerful political ideologies of that time in Europe. The idea of the film is that the workers are oppressed, and their leader is Maria. In order to destroy the workers, Freder sends a robot who, disguised as Maria, leads the workers to destroy the dam and flood their homes. Many people see the film as being anti-capitalist, showing how the rich exploit the efforts of workers. This is supported by the fact that the rich live high above in a shining city while the work ...
See also:Metropolis 1927 film, Metropolis 1927 film - Plot, Metropolis 1927 film - Themes, Metropolis 1927 film - Architecture & visual effects, Metropolis 1927 film - Restorations & re-releases, Metropolis 1927 film - Soundtracks & scores, Metropolis 1927 film - Political significance, Metropolis 1927 film - Influence, Metropolis 1927 film - Trivia Read more here: » Metropolis 1927 film: Encyclopedia II - Metropolis 1927 film - Political significance |
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| | | | Raygun Gothic: Encyclopedia II - Metropolis 1927 film - Restorations & re-releases On January 10, 1927 the film premiered in Berlin, with moderate success. In the United States, the movie was shown in a version edited by the American playwright Channing Pollock, who almost completely obscured the original plot, considered too controversial by the American distributors, and is considerably shortened. In Germany, a version similar to Pollock's was shown on August 5. Only copies of these versions—mostly considered as badly-edited—remain today.
Several restored versions (all of them missing footag ...
See also:Metropolis 1927 film, Metropolis 1927 film - Plot, Metropolis 1927 film - Themes, Metropolis 1927 film - Architecture & visual effects, Metropolis 1927 film - Restorations & re-releases, Metropolis 1927 film - Soundtracks & scores, Metropolis 1927 film - Political significance, Metropolis 1927 film - Influence, Metropolis 1927 film - Trivia Read more here: » Metropolis 1927 film: Encyclopedia II - Metropolis 1927 film - Restorations & re-releases |
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| | | | Raygun Gothic: Encyclopedia II - Metropolis 1927 film - Architecture & visual effects The film features special effects and set design that still impress modern audiences with their visual impact—the film contains cinematic and thematic links to German Expressionism, though the architecture as portrayed in the film appears based on contemporary Modernism and Art Deco. The latter a brand-new style in Europe at the time, had not reached mass production yet and was considered an emblem of the bo ...
See also:Metropolis 1927 film, Metropolis 1927 film - Plot, Metropolis 1927 film - Themes, Metropolis 1927 film - Architecture & visual effects, Metropolis 1927 film - Restorations & re-releases, Metropolis 1927 film - Soundtracks & scores, Metropolis 1927 film - Political significance, Metropolis 1927 film - Influence, Metropolis 1927 film - Trivia Read more here: » Metropolis 1927 film: Encyclopedia II - Metropolis 1927 film - Architecture & visual effects |
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| | | | Raygun Gothic: Encyclopedia II - Metropolis 1927 film - Themes The film contains a scene where Maria retells the story of the Tower of Babel from the Biblical book of Genesis, but in a way that connects it to the situation she and her fellow workers face. The scene changes from Maria to creative men of antiquity deciding to build a monument to the greatness of humanity, high enough to reach the heavens. Since they cannot build their monument by themselves, they concentrate workers to build it for them. The camera focuses on armies of workers unwillingly led to the construction site of the monument. They ...
See also:Metropolis 1927 film, Metropolis 1927 film - Plot, Metropolis 1927 film - Themes, Metropolis 1927 film - Architecture & visual effects, Metropolis 1927 film - Restorations & re-releases, Metropolis 1927 film - Soundtracks & scores, Metropolis 1927 film - Political significance, Metropolis 1927 film - Influence, Metropolis 1927 film - Trivia Read more here: » Metropolis 1927 film: Encyclopedia II - Metropolis 1927 film - Themes |
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