@@shawngreene3524 it's a masterwork of expressionist cinema from 1920's germany. Definitely ahead of it's time, too, it is one of the earliest science-fiction movies ever made, and the practical effects they used for it as absolutely ground-breaking for the era (remember it was directed in 1927).
No matter of imaginations, future scientific predictions and beautiful AI robot, it is unbelievable this is a 1927 movie. No Exagerrateingly to say that it compares equally with most sci-fi film today's in entertainment, surpassed many in coming anticipations.
@@ColonelSpankysLostBattalion The most astonishing thing is the social and economical environment in 1920s, still in steel and early stage of oil, but they were already concepted the blueprint of today and will fulfilling in near future. Time travellers is not my belief, but utmost foresighted power.
I really like Metropolis because it is such a prominent example of how the 1920s portrayed "Sci-Fi" and one can make really interesting contrasts between Metropolis and what came about later (Star Trek, Star Wars, the Dune film) and the way Sci-Fi has evolved over almost 100 years.
Think about the fact that both Beyonce and Janelle Monae have been dressed like Maria. Janelle Monae even has an album titled "Metropolis". Again, think about that for a second.
This must be the greatest cinematic achievement. Accomplished so much with so little. Fantastic images that were beyond the imagination of most people in that era, a story so beyond dreams told only with images and music, no spoken or written word.
I swear to God, no pun intended, I've never noticed the inverted pentagram behind the chair before 😳 Al, thou shall be the downfall of man, and it took Metropolis 98 years ago to show us...
@@MrEyesof9 One of the tin foil hat content creators I listen to predicts they will "sell" it as being so advantageous. Why settle for human when you can be Superhuman? Isn't it funny that Eve supposedly tempted Adam with an 🍎, and here Apple the company, their logo BEING an Apple with a bite taken out of it, will be our ultimate temptation?
@@wdgbirmingham2yes I agree because articles say Steve Jobs was gnostic and appreciated Adam and Eve learning good from evil because it opened their eyes and they learned knowledge like God. While it’s also known one of Apples best programmers also committed suicided by eating an apple filled with cyanide back in the day. I believe there was another correlation to the bitten Apple logo but forgive me as many years have gone by since I read it. I noticed the pentagram too and you cannot tell me this whole film was a warning of what’s to come. Now i think they never intended for us to have flying or levitating machines instead of cars but the flying is only for the authorities. Several years ago I had a dream. they have plans of stopping us of pulling us over by landing on top of our vehicles and attaching themselves to it and hijacking control over it.
This is by far my favoeite colorization of _Metropolis._ It REALLY kept the colors in the Art Deco style, and I loved how the colors danced between silver and gold during evil-Maria's seductive nightmare dance. And the EYE SCENES! Wow! It was amazing to look at in the original, but adding realistic color... Man...
This was an amazing colorization of this movie if it was available I’d gladly buy it-. Bravo sir you have done an amazing job on this clip, this lucky science fiction classic is glad to have found you and your talent. Thank you for sharing
@@Emanuela9 of course .... things have many meanings ..... the impulse shown in this film is something playing out now you will see it in your lifetime .... it has already begun .....
This film could be the greatest collections of imagery in motion picture. Ridley Scott made Blade Runner as an au mage to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. This film could not be made today. Doubtful the audience would understand the genius and the message. Fritz Lang died in 1971 and knew we were headed to self destruction. I hope and pray he was wrong. Since I was a child I have never forgotten seeing this film. it took so many years to restore these beautiful images. this is why i made film my career. 44yrs and never has there been any film so powerful. Blade Runner is it’s stepchild. RIP Fritz Lang and thank you Ridley Scott for your affirmation of why this beautiful film is so special.
Why would the message be lost on today's audience? The concept of a prosperous society built on the backs of an oppressed and exploited lower class is still one of the most common tropes in cinema and television. Prince of Egypt, 12 years a slave, Elysium, the hunger games, V for vendetta, Arcane, into the badlands; the list goes on. Stop being pretentious and condescending.
@@tigresuave11 - Some seem to believe it was some other method. But yeah, that could just be them proclaiming the "genius" of Fritz's work. There is an excellent chance you are correct.
It's always facinating to see classics in colour. But the shame about it is that it's to the detriment of the lighting which was one of the most important and thought of aspect of black and white movies.
Indeed, and I think Fritz Lang might have objected to coloring the steam yellow, since the use of mustard gas had killed scores of allied troops during WWI which would have been in recent memory at the time of this film’s release.
I never saw this all too prophetic movie and now a great goal to finally see it. This was very well colorized and nice resolution! You guys are at the top of your professions to do such an impeccable job! THANKS!
I watch this movie recently and now that it’s been brought to color. It looks amazing. The only reason I say recently is because I purchased a version on DVD that they told me was one of the very few left in existence. I might as well put it in a perfectly preserved case as a time capsule where German expressionism came from.
I've seen many versions of the film on here. I did see one with dialogue and background sound. There was also discovery of the missing footage on 16mm. This is the best colour version I have seen. If we could get all this together we could have the complete movie with colour and sound. In 2 years it will be in the public domain.
Wow this looks great. I'd always heard how influential this movie was but had never seen it. You can see it all over the history of Hollywood. Tim Burton must've been a fan.
Not many old movies will be my favorite, but i really love this movie so much. prodctions, score everything in this movie is a bible of science fiction movies
I am deeply impressed by the exceptional skill in colorizing garments. Furthermore, this film undoubtedly provided significant inspiration for subsequent science fiction movies.
TFW they introduced the internet to the public for the first time. “I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it.” - Marty McFly
Great work on this, it adds so much. One thing that will be cool is when AI can competently do this with old movies. To do it yourself must've taken alot. Great job!
Not all cuts worked for me but the colorization of some - especially with actors - was quite startling. Very stylized. I could only imagine scores of artists rotoscoping designated sections of each cut to be subjected to specific colour grading. Maybe this is more practical now with machine learning like The Foundry NukeX Copycat node, I don't know. I have long had an aversion to the colorization of classic B+W films that were lit and shot for gamma 0.65 black and while negatives. Not sure how happy I would be with Casablanca in colour. However I'm willing to accept the notion that colorization is not a kind of 'improvement'- correcting the monochrome defect of the time - but a wholly separate interpretation with an additional layer of post-production artistry overlaid on the original, as long as people understand this was not how it was originally shot and presented. Fascinating. Well done. I wonder what Fritz Lang would have thought?
The color is fine, but the sound is off. For example, the "hiss" of those big horns is not steam, it should be factory whistles denoting the shift change. Also the laboratory's buzzes and crackles are small stuff. Rotwang's mechanism is many thousands of volts, which would bang and zap very loudly.
