Illustrating our recent blogging theme of the subterranean working class being exploited by the "corporatocracy" to run the machines created to sustain Metropolis, the city above. Interesting was the director, Fritz Lang took his inspiration from New York City and when produced in 1927 the futuristic vision was of our contemporary times.
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers andowners in capitalism. The film was produced in the Babelsberg Studios by Universum Film A.G.(UFA). The most expensive silent film ever made, it cost approximately 5 million Reichsmark.[2]
Humorous Orwellian irony of WALL STREET JOURNAL advertising at the beginning of the trailer.
ReplyDelete...i have not watched it yet, but i will...
ReplyDeletewhat struck me is the timing - "the most expensive film ever made"...during the Weimar Republic...
...this was the time of the German hyperinflation, how apropos, and which, of course, led to the utter worthlessness of the Reich Mark...sending it into the trash bin of Fiat history...
so, it cost a lot of useless paper, does that really make it expensive?