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To Pam: My Views On "Metropolis -1984".

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Posted by AudioHead on February 9, 2000 at 09:13:00

Watched Moroder's "Metropolis -1984" last night on video. I was not impressed as Roger Ebert, who gave it a **** out of **** rating, and said
he was not distracted by the rock lyrics in the soundtrack. I, OTOH,
felt some of the colortints were not to my liking, I feel B&W is best for this
German Expressionist film, more melodramatic contrast, conveying a more
appropriate mood and atmosphere. Possibly would have colortinted certain
scenes as the one where the mad scientist puts Marias face on the robot, certain idyllic scenes of the priviledged class and Marias "Tower of
Babel" scene. The soundtrack was also not to my
liking, I felt it was inappropriate, just didn't fit in. If I were to
have done a similar project to Moroder, I would have inserted the missing
scenes, very selected or no colortints, and experimented with a contemporary
rock
score that would have featured the works of Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Gary Numan, et al., as I believe they would have integrated
better with the film than Moroders choices.
Incidentally, as a child of the 50's; do you remember watching
"Science Fiction Theater" hosted by Truman Bradley on TV from 1955-57?
_AH

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