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

[Clément Lévy]

Wunderbar!
Le 12 févr. 10 à 13:16, Kai Frederik Lorentzen a écrit :

>
> 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
>