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There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless The Behind the Scenes Pic of the day acts as mediator.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
I’ve featured Metropolis before, with a particularly nice shot featuring the lovely Brigitte Helm with her Maria helmet off taking a sip of water while some dude held a giant, industrial-sized blow dryer on her.
Fritz Lang’s visual masterpiece is ripe for this column. The size of the spectacle is enormous, the kind of production we don’t get to see anymore thanks to the ease and comparative cheapness of computer trickery. That might be good for modern movie-makers, but it makes for boring behind the scenes pics.
This pic is far from boring, from the climactic flooding finale as Maria tries to help the city’s children. This truly is an epic shot from an epic film. Hope you enjoy!
Enjoy the pic and click for the bigger version.
Tomorrow I leave for the Sundance and the pic !
-Quint
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Needs a hero.
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Jan. 18, 2011, 9:18 p.m. CST
Still fucking weird..and lucas did steal the droid design for c-3po
by Dark Doom
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...filming this scene.
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is a bit irritating.
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for his SW movies...
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Are you sure about that comment? What's your source?
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Perhaps it isn't anti-technology so much as a cautionary tale? It isn't exactly foolish to suggest that technology can be used in alienating and dehumanizing ways. If you find it 'annoying' that anyone would suggest civilization can make poor choices--that's rather narcissistic.
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On a commentary track that Fritz Lang recorded for the movie he says, "Thirteen hundred people or so...thirteen hundred and 90 maybe...make it fourteen hundred people died in a flood on that scene."
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...Lang stole from Feuillade when making his "Mabuse" movies.
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Fritz Lang was a mass murderer?
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Amazing.
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Grot even says "Who told you to destroy the machines? Without them you'll all die!" The workers were wrong to rebel against technology, but management was equally wrong for mistreating them. The whole point of the movie is to find a happy medium.
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Seriously I think that 'fact' would be more widely know if it were true.
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it would be completely impossible as he was only able to get 1000 extras- despite requesting 6000 initially (!).. I call bullshit.
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I heard it on an internet.
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two cameras! there are two cameras.
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everything you hear on the 'net?
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it's some great shit. Ebert's review is spot on. Never even saw an ad for it so it was a total discovery. Best way to experience it.
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Gaffers, grips, best boys, camera men . . . they took their job seriously, back in the day.
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I thought it was really good, too. Didn't read Ebert's review, but I remember thinking it was a darn good flick, and felt in a lot of ways like it had escaped from the 70s, which was refreshing for a contemporary sci-fi movie. Then we got Moon, so it's been a good coupla years for 70s style sci-fi.
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** Spoiler ** Their parents and the entire human race are dead, and they're all smiling and happy. They get to re-learn all the lessons of humanties many, many tragic mistakes, all over again. A nice fresh Dark Ages for them. Crusades. World Wars. Awesome! Weeee . . . That sounds critical, but I really did like that film.
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It's dystopian. It claims that utopia can not be delivered to all. It can only be delivered to some at the cost of slavery to others.
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I was disappointed with the latest version of Metropolis containing the 'lost' south american footage. I think it adds under developed sub-plots, and confuses the issues. I think I prefer the 2002 Kino Restored version. Anybody with me?
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