I feel that "Metropolis" was a movie ahead of its time. I also learned that many movies in the following years used concepts and actual parts of the movie to incorporate elements of these scenes into more recent movies such as "Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom". This connected the past to the present, which allowed me to draw comparisons from both movies after watching "Metropolis". A great example of this occurs when the wealthy, stable man trades places with one of the brainwashed peasants to experience the life of the "underground society" and to make meaning of it. It was a brillaint movie for its time and has been used a reference by many modern film-makers to this day.
-Nate Walters
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There is no doubt Metropolis was beyond its time, it represented a futuristic situation that of course is similar to what happens current day. The wealthy people who design and are the brains behind different work such as the architecture of a building are higher up than those workers who are actually hands on completing the task. In society there will always be different classes, lower, middle, and upper, this movie showed that the start of "elite" community was beggining to rise and that it was only going to increase over time.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Metropolis ahead of its time, it seems like it was one of the first depictions of how social classes are and a ruler above them all who decides the fate of the middle and lower class. From a viewers stand point it was hard to watch at first just because I personally am not used to watching silent movies and it was hard to get into. However once the plot started to show it was easier to follow, unlike Battleship Potemkin which seemed more like a camera following a ships journey with no real story line.
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