(9/1 & 9/6) Metropolis NOTES

  • 1st long format Sci-Fi movie 
  • Focus is between rich v. poor, young v. old, employee v. employer, good v. evil, dirty v. clean etc.
  • Maria is the "saving grace"; associated with "purity" and "the light" (cross imagery)
  • "Hel" is associated with evil as the upside-down pentagram is shown; her name is also one letter off of "hell"
  • Freder's stalker is dressed in extremely linear clothing (long straight jacket with sharp lines, simple geometric hat, dark eye makeup)
  • quality of air pollution also distinguished between the have and have nots 
  • clothing differences distinguish the rich v. the poor, young v. old, and have v. have nots (rich look like Wall Street type, Freder is dressed in boy's play clothes, and the workers are dressed like factory workers of the time period)
End of Class 

  • "will 10 hours never end" = reference to work day (christ on the cross imagery)
  • workers take off their hat and kneel in Maria's presence (more religious imagery)
  • "Tower of Babel" Biblical story 
  • "Heart" is the mediator between the"head" and "hands" = Maria 
  • "Mediator" light shines on Freder
  • Freder is dressed in light clothes and everyone else is dressed in dark clothes (he stands out)
  • Compares "Mother of Babylon" to "Hel" 
  • doors are marked with pentagram 
  • Maria's consciousness and appearance is transferred to "Hel"; Maria is "transformed" through heavy eye makeup 
  • Maria is a stripper?
  • "the thin man" = the spy 
  • Maria inciting violence so that Joh Federson has an excuse to use force to subdue them 
  • The thin man is portrayed as evil messenger/ messenger from above 
  • misleading/ evil women = witch
In Class Discussion 
  • La Venus D'Ille, Golem, Frankenstein 
  • STEREOTYPE 
  • Post Modern Crisis = nothing new under the sun 
  • Tech = warfare 
  • basic unit of measure is the human body 
  • people are always looking for a religious or political leader 
  • institutional racism 
  • Maria and biblical Mary 
  • evil imitates good to "get things done"
  • society as gullible and easily influenced 
  • tech dehumanizes and corrupts society 

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