What do you guys think of Metropolis (1927)?

What do you guys think of Metropolis (1927)?

Socialist propaganda

I watched a version with a load of found footage put back in. It was too long.

Too long

>socialist
National socialist.

It's fun, even if its message is very volkish.

The imagery is interesting and obviously iconic.
I would have probably loved it if I had seen it in 1927. Unfortunately at the time I was too busy selling vacuum cleaners from door to door to care about the cinema.
HOWEVER
Today to me its mostly fuckin boring.

Would fug.

It's a masterpiece.

No it's not.

How fucking old are you

He's probably joking.

The effects, the scenery and the visuals are a piece of art. The story is a huge pile of crap.

M was better

It is.

What's your problem with the story? It's poetic.

They can both be good.

No it's not. There isn't one Nazi thing in the entire scenario, it gets this shit because it's the only pre-3rd Reich movie that plebs have heard of, and they see the whole of German cultural history through the lens of WWII, but there is nothing in it that would raise an eyebrow if people didn't know it was co-written by a Nazi party member.

It's the rosetta stone of late 20th century spectacle filmmaking.

It's also very clearly anti-capitalist, but if you were a working class pleb in the 1920's you'd be pretty anti-capitalist too since that was the era of giant trusts, little to no safety regulations, hazardous shitty working conditions, hilariously low pay, and you often worked 70+ hours a week without weekends. The visuals of the machines (industry) literally eating people was pretty blunt because it's a silent movie, you had to get more across with the visuals because you don't want to just have people reading frame after frame of text cards.

The decadence of Weimar Germany

There is a lot of Nazi things in Metropolis.

Rotwang who is obviously a Jew manipulating both the wealthy intellectuals and the working class (capitalism and communism are both Jewish ideologies according to the Nazis).

A perfect women is very much like Holy Mary, while her evil copy is very sexualized and "independent" (the Jews infested pure German cuture and German women creating feminism and pornography).
Only if the German people agree to work together and kill the parasite (Jews) the world will become a better place.
Rotwang creating an android is nothing more but a reference to Golem from Jewish folklore.

Saw the (almost) fully restored version with a live orchestra, it was amazing. The story is average and simplistic, but it's a joy to watch.

That's an interesting perspective but I think you're seeing all that symbolism because you're looking backwards through history at it. If you were in the 1920's you don't have a whole lot else to pull from for a science fiction dystopian vision of the future than folklore paired with modern events, and it's important again to remember that this film was made before the great depression which was the catalyst that really allowed for Nazi ideas to become mainstream in German culture.

It's also anti-socialist. The workers destroyed everything and almost killed their children and themselves.

are you for real?

Nothing from that comment disproves what that user said about the film's symbolism.

Well, it's not exactly pro-Nazi, but Nazis were not the only ones preaching volkish ideology.

None of this is there, it's all retrospective squinting. Rotwang is more manipulated than manipulator. Lang was Jewish. Get an education and stop repeating "Haunted Screen" bullshit.

The film contains no such symbolism. The full plotline, which has the robot Maria as a kind of resurrection of the lost love Frederson and Rotwang vied over, Hel, makes it clearer. People repeat garbage that doesn't stand up, over and over again, it's ridiculous.

>Rotwang is more manipulated than manipulator
Elaborate.

>The full plotline, which has the robot Maria as a kind of resurrection of the lost love Frederson and Rotwang vied over, Hel, makes it clearer.
Fake Maria is literally portrayed as the Whore of Babylon.

The plan isn't his, the agenda isn't his, his survival depends on his history with Frederson, and he's so grief-stricken that he ends up completely insane. Rotwang is an alchemist, not a Jew.

Have you seen the restored film, or are you just riffing off of tenuous old shit that was wrong even about the shorter versions?

I've seen the restoration from, I think 2012.

>The plan isn't his, the agenda isn't his
What? He created fake Maria and he captured the real one. His goal was to destroy the city because of his history with Frederson and Hel (which is never explained in the movie).

>completely forgetting Fake Maria
maybe if you repeat your lies more, they'll become true?

You haven't seen the film, so we're going to stop here.

I clearly said "robot Maria". You haven't seen the film, this conversation is concluded.

I've seen the film many times.

Wish more movies/comics/games/shows had this aesthetic.

>1927
No thanks, too old.

>Rotwang is an alchemist, not a Jew
Have you seen Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam?

t. Pleb

It's very pro-capatilist. In the end of the movie nothing changes.

How does it fit in with the rest of the marvel cinematic universe?

hey Tom

too boring

also white/black its shit.

anyone read the osamu tezuka comic?
interesting pre-robot boy esque goofiness.
need to see the anime movie too

more like EIN FILM VON SHITZ LAME

It's hard to believe people like this browse Sup Forums and consider themselves superior to redditors in anyway

The original Illuminati movie blueprint. It even features Moloch. Great film.

>according to the Nazis

...

natsoc is a subset of soc

I fell asleep in the first half hour.

>probably
obviously he's typing for his great grandfather who's hooked up to a machine next to him

>hi, I live in a giant palace and I'm trying to replace all of you workers with robots so I decided to flood your homes hoping to drown you and your families
>but I failed so hey want to work together?
ending was retarded
visually it still wows in places

Have you ever actually seen a Fritz Lang movie?
The leader of the gangsters is basically Goebbels

Brigitte Helm is so good. Maybe Norma Desmond was right, they didn't need dialogue.

I prefer Lang's other silent epic, the four hour-long Dr Mabuse, The Gambler.

that's a long poster

Still socialism

That sounds like bull, but given some of the old people who admitted to browsing Sup Forums I could believe it

Extremely impressive for the time. Photography is still good today. The story is weak. Themes are a bit simple.

Lmao, the message of the movie is LITERALLY "the working class is dumb as shit, but don't work them too hard or they'll revolt and cause trouble".

I saw a restored version with accompanying live orchestra, so it was pretty cash. But I expected it to be a more sci-fi/futuristic movie about artificial intelligence etc, but it turns out the movie was nothing like that at all. Which was fine, but the moralism felt a bit dated.

The scene with the fake-Maria captivating the upper class was kino as fuck though.

Some Jew will be remaking it in 2023 and the main character will either be a faggot or black female.

I know nothing about this movie but I can guess there were no faggots or black women in the film

Vacuum cleaners weren't commonly sold to people until after WWII you lying fucking faggot

Pretty good.

I liked it, revolutionary for its time

I want an android gf!

>(((fritz lang)))

>I know nothing about this movie
Then why don't you watch it and learn something, you mouthbreathing plebian retard, or stay the fuck in your game of throne threads.
Why are you even here?

So this is how paranoid jews view movies?

he didn't even consider himself jewish until the autistic nazis classified him as such