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

[rich]

nothing like that in IV, alas

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> 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
>
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