The Temporal Messages of Metropolis
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Stray Notes:
- You may remember Rock from Moony Man and Detective Boy Rock Holmes
- A big fan of Lang's 1927 Metropolis is Joseph Goebbels
- Tima survives, which is a great ending card, but also firmly de-legitimizes her power base!
- Fifi is from both Tezuka's and Rintaro's Metropolis - Fifi is the robot in the lair, while in the movie Fifi is the robot that gives Kenichi Tima's heart
- For those of you curious as to what exactly influenced Hitchcock, it's the Schufftan process, which I've linked below
- If you're interested in another interpretation of Metropolis, you might find William Benzon's "The Song at the End of the World: Personal Apocalypse in Rintaro's Metropolis" a fascinating read - Benzon focuses on Rintaro's choice music, and briefly describes how it places family matters in the foreground
Text:
- McVeigh, Brian. Postwar Japan's "Hard" and "Soft Nationalism", JPRI 73 (2001), www.jpri.org/publications/work...
- Nae Hauf-Way Hoose. 地震, naehauf-wayhoose.blogspot.com/...
- Yoshiwara, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiwara
- The Tower of Babel (Brueghel), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tow...)
- Martin. Anime UK News, www.animeuknews.net/anime.php?...
- Snider, Drew. What's the Big Deal?: Metropolis (1927), www.film.com/movies/whats-the-...
- NPR. An Anime Metropolis, www.npr.org/programs/morning/f...
- Yasar, Kerim. Japanese Visions of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", dissertationreviews.org/archiv...
- Bordwell, David. Metropolis Unbound, www.davidbordwell.net/blog/201...
- Bird, Lawrence. Dialectical Imaginaries: forms of life, forms of fascism in the Metropolis of film, manga and anime, Critical Planning (2012): 38-54
- Bird, Lawrence. States of Emergency: Urban Space and the Robotic Body in the Metropolis Tales, Mechademia 3 (2008): 127-148.
- Eagan, Daniel. Mad 'Metropolis', Film Journal International (2001): 68.
- The Influence of Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' on Future Films, sjfilmhistory.wordpress.com/2...
- Hutchinson, Pamela. Future-proof: How Metropolis still inspires fashion, The Guardian, www.theguardian.com/fashion/fa...
- Szirmai, Adam. The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development: An Introduction, Cambridge Press, 2005.
- Knack, Steve. Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence, Public Choice 87 (1996): 207-228
Media:
- Metropolis (1927)
- Metropolis (1949)
- Metropolis (2001)
- World War 2 Pacific Theater Public Domain stock footage
Music:
- I can't stop loving you by Ray Charles
- Colossus - Wonders by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: incompetech.com/
- Bet on It by Silent Partner
- With a Stamp by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Artist: www.twinmusicom.org/ - Krátké a kreslené filmy
A great analysis of a criminally underrated masterpiece.
Thanks Sasy!
unfortunately most people that this movie is a bit too complex for western viewer as its connected with more japanese history.
movie story is hidden in symbolics that is hard to notice.
I admit before watching this analysis I haven't understood half of the movie. Although I watch anime for 10 years and I am partly familiar with japanese history xD
@@jacek107ify I disagree on that .I don’t think it’s underrated anymore but it’s definitely not a best place to pick up
Holy shit this was really good man. Metropolis (2001) has always had a special place in my heart. I was a kid when I grabbed it off the shelf of a local video store because I liked the cover and I had no idea what to expect.
Exact reason I rented it, looks hauntingly beautiful
same here. ive had that movie in the back of my mind my whole life, and just rewatched it a few days ago for the first time since i was ~9yo.
I had seen the silent film on TCM and became a fan of it so title got my attention when I came across it on a DVD site. I loved the original Astro boy tv show which had episodes on youtube and of course Kenichi has his look. I love this movie too. When I first got it I watched it daily. Whoever picked Ray Charles' song "I Can't Stop Loving You" , hit it out of the part. Slow dreamy song playing over absolute destruction & annihilation. It was powerful.
Maaaan there's so much going on in the Metropolis anime! I had already extracted most of it myself for a paper, but you made me aware of even more elements. So interesting. Thanks for this!
+ScarlettShinzon Oh snap, that's sounds really interesting! Would you be okay linking me a copy? I'd love to read it!
Well it's for my bachelor thesis, which needs publication before I can share it because of the whole plagiarism thing. But by the time I'm done, I will definitely share it :D
ScarlettShinzon Cheers, can't wait!
@@AndiTheValkyrie How did the thesis went??
@@AndiTheValkyrie WERE WAITINNGGGGGGG
Just watched Metropolis (2001) and I must say you gave me a much deeper understanding of the thought put into such a masterpiece. Thank You Sir.
One of my favourite films! Underappreciated!c
I love Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, one of my all time favorite films. But I might have to watch the anime now. You sold it to me my friend
I love this videos statement of the different and similarity of the metropolis of each film. Especially the conclusion was a breath taker. Good work! I love it!
Nice! Have you seen Lang's original work? Or read Tezuka's manga?
+Pause and Select Honestly I'm not seen there work before but after your video I got interested on there work. So lately I'm reading the manga and watching the films as well.
Freddy Cabral Nice! Keep me posted on your thoughts!
Thank you so much for this! I have always loved and adored this movie so much..
Here from the Stevem video. Metropolis has been one of my favorite movies since it on Toonami years ago. I always figured there was something more to the themes than I had the context for, and thanks to this video, I have that context.
When you're talking about the classic Metropolis and the symbolism of the Fake Maria, it made me realize how much it parallels Silent Hill 2 and that storyline as well. I'm not sure if Silent Hill videos are your thing, but that would be something incredible to analyze. Silent Hill 2's fake Mary is even named Maria!
Just found out your channel, great piece of work.
Your analyses are always spot on and shed light to parts I have missed.
Keep up man, good luck growing this channel.
Thanks a lot for checking out my stuff man!
Fantastic work! Just finished it a couple minutes ago and was smiling at the end. Masterful film.
Nice! and yeah, the movie is phenomenal!
This film and The End of Evagelion have messed me up for life.
This might be why I've avoided watching The End of Evangelion for so long. I'm halfway through watching the series for the third time. I'm not sure I'm ready for it. But then, I'm old and grown wimpy. I've seen Rintaro's Metropolis, twice now in a couple of weeks. I'd really like to read the Manga.
@@brendanmcnally9145 as long as you're not in a dark place, you're good.
@@KevinGsWK I''m good. Thanks!
love this review, please keep doing this.
Dude... you just made my year by doing this video... keep up the good work... i wish i could give you more Thumbs up
Thanks v 2! I'm glad that my video made you so happy!
First watched this when i was 13 and ive loved it ever since theres something haunting and timeless about it even though its really not that original it feels like one of a kind
Interesting to know because I didn’t watch this til I was age 19
Well-researched (although I’ve not done any to confirm for others), story well-told, video well-timed!
Congrats on 1,000 subscribers, I love the depth of this video in particular!
+Sauhiro Orihaus Thank you very much man!
And thanks for the kind words, took a lot of research and editing to finish this one, haha.
05:59 Amaterasu is a goddess.
Susano'o and Tsukuyomi are male.
Excellent analysis. Great presentation.
The only message I got from Metropolis is that Ray Charles and anime were meant for each other.
Congratulations! Great analysis!
Thank you it was very hard work.
Thank u for making this !!!! Xoxo
The problem with the Marxian interpretation of this well presented video is that it ignores the fact that there is an inherently right wing message to these films too. Hitler's favourite film was Lang's Metropolis! In the Rintaro version, the Marduks are said to look like Fascists, and it is telling that one of the front covers for the DVD features neither Kenichi nor Tima but Rock, depicted as a heroic protagonist. In fact Rock's warning about the danger of machines proves to be 100% right and matches the warning at the end of the original Manga. The warning about technology is inherently a right wing perspective which rejects techno-utopianism that even National Socialists indulged in. Tima's death at the end is not necessarily a death of imperial Japan and authority, but of the idea of technology as salvation which is an inherently progressive and left wing idea - one that, like Kenichi, people find it difficult to let go of.
This could be a different ending in relation of the main explanation. In fact there were a lot of references to the Marxian class struggles between the vertical society express in the films.
@@g-kems Yes there were clear and obvious references to class revolution - but is that revolution shown to be inevitable or derived from wisdom? the robot tries to talk sense to the revolutionaries and they kill him. Is this a pro-Marxist perspective?
@@Survivethejive Trump is right wing, america is turning in a techno utopianism, maybe your wrong
@@TalDreamcast like all revolutionaries - they are always pawns of powerful forces
You're right, Metropolis was evidently one of Hitler's favourite films, but I can''t help but think that he seriously misinterpreted the actual story and intent of Metropolis. Thea von Harbou, who wrote both part of the script and the novelisaton of Metropolis (which I've not read), was a Nazi, but I think the film itself is not really a Nazi film, especially in its full form.
Hitler could have seen himself in the Freder character, the heart between the hand (workers) and the mind (the bosses) but it would have been a superficial reading of Freder, totally missing the roles of both Maria (robot and real) and Rotwang in making Freder the main hero.
Great video, it's been ages since I watched the silent film so it was really interesting to hear about their connections and differences now that I finally watched 2001 movie.
Hey how’s it going
Impressive video man, a fully comprehensive study of history and film. you need more subs
Thanks Vosk21! The number is above 0 so thats good enough for me!
Who am I?
Gotta say... Metropolis is to me, one of those movies that I not just "watch it", I appreciate every detail, with summer wars and digimon our war game, and also the 7th ova of gundam unicorn (which is also technically a movie, with theatrical release and all) and the movie Gundam CCA, those are my top of animated movies I can watch any day and... They make me feel alive, feeling something out of ordinary feelings or beyond those ordinary feelings.
I do love those movies, art indeed.
What a great piece! Great notes too. I'll try to read them all if I can. Subbed too.
I've just started going back to anime after a long disillusionment, and it's really fantastic to see it being tackled so academically and respectfully.
Hey, I see on your notes that you realize Tina did survive. What do you think they were trying to say by adding that? Be really interested to hear your thoughts on that.
Sorry for the long post. Keep it up.
It's probable that Tina surviving is to temper the pain of her death, that there has to be something to show for all of that suffering.
One of my favorite movies. It took a couple of watches to really love it.
I love the classic Metropolis, it could still be applied to modern culture
ah, gotcha!
-joe
Yeah, I'll say for sure.
That was wunderful.
Holy shit, what a great video!
thanks bodoni!
-joe
Fabulous end music!
Isn't it? Love that song!
Really such a great film. One of the best films I have ever seen.
good job i like it
Thanks Alan J!
I remember having a dream that had the same setting as Metropolis, while I was a anime character from Bakugan Battle Brawlers, who worked as a librarian.
You do know they gathered all her parts an rebuilt her at end? Watch the after credits.
That’s in the Japanese version of the movie, the us prints (most notably the 2002 release) cut that part out
12:38 I don't think Tima was in the best physical condition to take the throne after getting shot as for her mental state at the time she was confused, scared, angry, heartbroken just a some little things that might've interfere with what happened.
13:24 Whatever metaphor you want to apply to Tima or kenichi, what actually is happening on screen is Tenichi trying desperately to save whats life of a his broken friend Tima that may be too late to be save at all.
The ulala, Metropolis, It's called the less satanic metropolis, mister french man!
Amazing analysis thank you for the work you put into this. Helps clear up a couple fuzzy spots in the 2001 version. 👍👍
Damn despite this video being old it’s good .I don’t think the movie is underrated anymore
I don't want to be rude, but what is the names of this animated movies, thanks (couldn't find on imdb except metroplis 2001)
7:26 what the music you used for this part
With a Stamp by Twin Musicom :)
Thank you
Maybe he just wanted to save his friend.
Or on a more serious note, what was all the epilogue about then?
Thought this was about the DT album
Very good analysis of the Anime. Better than Bennett the Sage's video. He was right about a few things and the movie is far from perfect but I don't think he gave it a fair shot. I love both the anime and the Restored Metropolis. Haven't read the manga yet.
Just a small mistake, but Amaterasu is a sun goddess not a god.
true, the only existing religion with main female goddess. Next to her were...
Tsukuyomi moon god (male)
Susan'o storm god (male)
there is also Yamado-orochi devil like figure, of eight headed snake dragon.
Weird
How we german's used to create beatiful peaces of art but also created so much pain.
Humanity for ya
Meh, no problem man, sometimes shit happens, every society has periods where some people did terrible things, its not an exclusive thing of you Germans, name 1 nationality / etnical group that never did anything wrong at some point in history.
Dose anyone know about the Japaneses credit pictures in metropolis?
Are you talking about the Lang film?
no whats that
Oh, never mind. I thought you were talking about Fritz Lang's original film and the Yoshiwara place. But that's cool. Are you referring to them at the junk (?) shop at the end?
YEAH the kenichi and tima robot shop thing.I like to thing that was a happy ending in a way
diojo stando z It was!
20 years later and I still don't understand this film.
I feel like you wildly misunderstood what was happening.
she is skay net exermindor e blade runner copiou
But I speak in taco, please somebody help me D;
This analysis feels so far removed from the plot of the movie that I can barely connect it to my own feelings. I'll have to treat it as a figurative interpretation about style, and not something to judge the movie's story by.
Well it's not even in the perspective of style, it's literally a sociohistorical look at Metropolis and how it may be reinterpreted in the most recent one. Given that Otomo has clearly established that he has a very strong beat on Japanese social issues, I wouldn't doubt it.
I don't doubt you. But creating a story with such overtones is a stylistic choice. Do you see now?
Ah, gotcha! Fair enough!
The Metropolis german movie and the anime Metropolis does not share the same plot and element but they just borrow some aspects to each other
Alex Jones brought me here
I feel like North Korea should watch this animated movie. The movie is a timeless classic.
Sure.
There's no need for this guy to use so many complex words on his videos, it just serves as an opportunity to show off and less of an opportunity to communicate something to the viewer (the intended purpose of the video). There are better ways to communicate when something is "a latitudinal space" and that is has "diversification".
None of these words are complicated lol you just need to expand your vocabulary a bit more
@@backwardsbandit8094 isn't one of the first things they teach in composition classes to address your audience where they are at ? You should not write (or produce content in general ) expecting ur audience to expand THEIR vocabulary, if anything it should be you who should aim for the most understandable way to express urself, don't make excuses for bad writing
@@carlospena98 actual film critics use film terminology all the time. If someone uses a word you dont understand then it's on you to look it up. And no, none of this is badly written. It's perfectly normal English and it communicates exactly what it's supposed to.
@@backwardsbandit8094 good writing is more than wether the words are correctly written or are in the order they are supposed to be, it's also ( and more importantly ) about communicating a message or an idea, and part of that is making sure your ideas are clear. Using obscure words when more common synonyms are available is also bad writing, the only way this would fly is if the target audience of this video were exclusively film critics that (according to you ) clearly and easily understand these words, but by the content of the video and the medium it is posted on, this is obviously intended for a general audience.
Don't watch metropolis. The original movie, at the time, was revolutionary and amazing but now it's shit. It's 80 years later. Don't waste your time.