Rainbow-files: Metropolis (the director's cut)

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Tonight on 'arte tv'.
 
"Klein-Rogge was carrying nubile actresses off to rooftops when King Kong was
still on the tit with no motor skills to speak of. Well, one nubile actress anyway,
Brigitte Helm in Metropolis. Great movie. Exactly the world Pökler and evidently 
quite a few others were dreaming about those days, a Corporate City-state where
technology was the source of power, the engineer worked closely with the administrator,
the masses labored unseen far underground, and ultimate power lay with a single leader
at the top, fatherly and benevolent and just, who wore magnificent-looking suits and
whose name Pökler couldn't remember, being too taken with Klein-Rogge playing the 
mad inventor that Pökler and his codisciples under Jamf longed to be --- indispensable
to those who ran the Metropolis, yet, at the end, the untamable lion who could let it
all crash, girl, State, masses, himself, asserting his reality against them all in 
one last roaring plunge from rooftop to street ..." (Gravity's Rainbow, p. 578)
 
 
http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/kultur_und_medien/feuilleton/2300560_Premiere-von-Metropolis-Zurueck-in-die-Zukunft.html

Start-the-show!
KFL