Blimey, film-lovers! Fritz Lang's iconic movie Metropolis is to finally be complete after over eighty years - as missing scenes have been found at an archive in Argentina.
The scenes were snipped out of the flick for being too violent or simply too lengthy.
But the movie is now easier to understand now the scenes have been added back in - the mystery surrounding Maria and her doppelganger robot is solved and the role of the spy, Schmale, makes more sense.
Martin Köerber, who restored a previous version of Metropolis, told Die Zeit: "It doesn't matter how bad the condition of the material is, the original intention of the film, including all of its minor characters and subplots, is now once again tangible for viewers. The rhythm of the film has been restored."
Yahoo!
That is cheery!
Can't wait to see the results, I think this film becomes more and more relevant to our world and it will be good to see it with out the confusing gaps. I just hope the film is not to mangled after all these years.
Not meaning to be critical (and uncheery) but how do things get 'discovered' in an archive? Aren't these things meant to be indexed or something? (God I'm boring).
Posted by: Sophy | Friday, July 04, 2008 at 09:13 AM
That is cheery!
Can't wait to see the results, I think this film becomes more and more relevant to our world and it will be good to see it with out the confusing gaps. I just hope the film is not to mangled after all these years.
Not meaning to be critical (and uncheery) but how do things get 'discovered' in an archive? Aren't these things meant to be indexed or something? (God I'm boring).
Posted by: Sophy | Friday, July 04, 2008 at 09:14 AM
Oh, wow, seeing the uncut version of this movie will be fantastic. Wonder if that means it'll be on the big screen in a artsy film house for people whose cities boast artsy film houses.
Posted by: Fawn | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 06:55 PM