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	Metropolis (2001 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The anime movie, released in June 2001 in Japan and on January 25, 2002 in the U.S. (rated PG-13 by the MPAA), was directed by Rintaro, and written by Katsuhiro Otomo.
		The movie also has the honour of being the first anime movie since the mid 90's to be aired on Channel 4 in the UK (It aired in the early hours of Sunday 30th October 2005 and was aired both uncut and in Japanese with English Subtitles).
		Metropolis itself lies in an unmentioned republic and it can best be described as a plutocracy where a man named Duke Red is the most influential citizen, overshadowing President Boon and Mayor Ryon, the heads of state and government of Metropolis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolis_(2001_film) (2263 words)

	Metropolis (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Metropolis is an early silent science fiction/fantasy film created by the famed Austrian director Fritz Lang.
		The real Maria is imprisoned in Rotwang's house in Metropolis, whilst the robot Maria becomes an exotic dancer in the city's Yoshiwara nightclub, fomenting discord amongst the rich young men of Metropolis.
		In the United States, the movie was shown in a version edited by the American playwright Channing Pollock, who almost completely obscured the original plot, considered too controversial by the American distributors, and is considerably shortened.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolis_(1927_movie) (2946 words)

	2001
		One of the most obvious pointers to viewers that 2001 is a science-fiction film would be the setting of the film.
		Not only is this a science-fiction film but a movie that borrows themes and ideas previously used, a trait that Stanley Kubrik, director of 2001, is known for.
		Kubrik uses dialogue in a way that is not unlike the silent movies of the early part of the century.
	www3.baylor.edu /~Brooks_Grigson/papers/2001.html (933 words)

	DVDFILE.com
		Metropolis was one of Tezuka's early works, and was in turn inspired by the Lang film.
		I am not sure which subtitles the movie had when it played in American theaters (in a rare move, the film was released with its Japanese soundtrack instead of the English dub), but I suspect it was the actually Original Translation, not the other.
		Metropolis may not be the best anime film I've ever seen, yet it remains moderately thought-provoking, high in spectacle, and reasonably entertaining.
	www.dvdfile.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1890&Itemid=3 (1577 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- METROPOLIS
		Just as the inhabitants of this Metropolis are celebrating the completion of the Ziggurat- a superb tower that will serve as the city’s crowning achievement, a detective from outside the city comes in search of a scientist whose work has gone beyond the boundaries of the law.
		However, Tima is rescued by Kenichi, the nephew of the detective that came to the sprawling Metropolis in search of the outlaw scientist.
		The History of Metropolis is a text supplement that looks at the work from its initial inception in print as a comic to its development as a motion picture.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_review_2002/metropolis-2001-dvd.htm (998 words)

	Metropolis RE - DVD Movie Central
		Metropolis is recognized as a classic and was one of the last examples of expressionism in German cinema.
		Metropolis at 20fps for comparison, but the final judgment is for each viewer to determine individually.
		Metropolis is found, we may never get a chance to hear the remaining score set to film.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/metropolis_re.htm (2113 words)

	The Metropolis Times : Top 100 Movies: 10-1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The movie focuses on the individual human lives, with politics being something that interferes and smothers but has little real significance.
		No, its not a "real Kubrick" movie, since he was only a last-minute replacement and hated the script, but you can see his clear influence in the cinematography.
		If the movie was nothing more than a blank screen with Simon and Garfunkle's Greatest Hits playing in the background, it still might make the top 10.
	themetropolistimes.blogspirit.com /archive/2006/01/30/top-100-movies-10-1.html (981 words)

	Metropolis
		Metropolis also pioneered the "Schufftan Process" a revolutionary method of combining live action and miniatures and had the largest budget ever for a European production.
		Metropolis, of course, deals with the same theme as many SF movies, from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, to Blade Runner to A.I.: In an increasingly technological world, what does it mean to be human?
		The Fuhrer "loved" Metropolis, he was told, saying, "Here is a man who can give us great Nazi films!" Lang realized with some nervousness the gravity of his situation when Goebbels offered to make him an honorary Aryan in spite of his Jewish mother.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDMetropolis.htm (1272 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Metropolis - Anime
		"Metropolis" is brought to the screen by anime legends Katsuhiro Otomo (of "Akira" fame) and Rintaro who once worked with Tezuka on the anime TV series "Astro Boy".
		While "Metropolis" is an artistic marvel to behold, and is sure to satisfy fans of the genre, it is marred by a predictable plot line that fails to break any new ground for anime.
		Despite all of this, "Metropolis" still boils down to a story about heroes and villains who struggle to rescue or control a waif-ish looking girl whose existence will either save the world or destroy it.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/metropolis-anim-pp-85523525.html (352 words)

	Metropolis at Binary Bonsai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Fritz Lang, the (and I do not use this word lightly) visionary director of Metropolis, uses the polarized technology-dependent society of Metropolis to pull into perspective the industrialization of Europe in the early 20th century, the segregation of the classes in Europe at the time as well as the God-syndrome tendencies of maniacal scientists.
		Not so much a ‘movie’ in the ‘let’s go and see a movie and be entertained’ vein, as it is one long abstracted social and political juxtaposition piece.
		Metropolis is one of those amazing movies that will have an impact on me for the rest of my life.
	binarybonsai.com /archives/2005/11/30/metropolis (1289 words)

	Metropolis--The Musical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The theme of the original, as described by "Metropolis" author Thea Von Harbou, is that "between the head and the hand there must be a mediator--that mediator must be the heart." The film has been criticized by some for the romantic simplicity of this theme.
		The religious parallels are abundantly clear, and in the novel as well as the movie, the spiritual nature of the story and its themes are constantly underlined by religious imagery including a massive cathedral and white crosses in the shrine-like catacombs.
		John Freeman's son, Steven, the heir apparent to Metropolis, does not share his father's megalomania He has a conscience and his father, aware of this, attempts to keep him in ignorance of the apalling conditions of the workers in the underworld.
	rbowser.tripod.com /metropolis/musical.html (994 words)

	cyberpunkreview.com » Metropolis (2001)
		Overview: Metropolis is a wonderful anime that, while it shares the same name as a far more famous movie, it is in fact a different story altogether.
		Metropolis is one of the most stunning animes that I have ever seen.
		Osamu Tezuka claims he had never seen Metropolis at the time he was working on his story and that the poster for Langs film was the only influence.
	www.cyberpunkreview.com /movie/decade/2000-current/metropolis-2001 (823 words)

	Absolute Anime / Metropolis
		Detective Shunsaku Ban and his assistant Ken-ichi visit Metropolis during the opening of the Ziggurat (which is a massive series of towers in the center of the city), on a case to hunt down and capture the freelance scientist Dr. Laughton.
		But the case leads to something much bigger and Duke Red, the powerful leader in charge of the city, is plotting to take over the world with the Ziggurat and the help of a robotic girl named Tima (who was modeled after his deceased daughter).
		However, both Duke Red's forces and Rock are in hot pursuit of Tima, and the tensions between the human and robot population is becoming dangerously higher.
	www.absoluteanime.com /metropolis/index.htm (372 words)

	METROPOLIS (2001) - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The film tells a story charged with filial jealousy, with the human responsibility to its sentient machinations--one that is the logical extension of Decartes' dictum of thought equalling "being," even in the electric minds of electric sheep.
		Metropolis isn't a perfect film, but it's a brilliant one with themes almost as dense as its visual sensibility.
		The colours of the 1.85:1 transfer are bright and faithful, contributing to a showpiece presentation with nary a thing to complain about in regards to either its visuals or any aspect of its 5.1 Japanese language soundtrack (in Dolby Digital and DTS options).
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/metropolis.htm (963 words)

	Metropolis: 75th Anniversary Restoration
		In the distant future, the great Metropolis is divided between the wealthy upper-class who play in vast high-rises, and the workers who live far underground, toiling in merciless conditions while tending the machines that power the city.
		Joh Fredersen is not about to share power in Metropolis, and orders Rotwang to abduct Maria and give the android her appearance, programming it to incite the workers to violence so he will have justification to crack down on them.
		But the distributors balked at both the movie's length and content, cutting over an hour of footage shortly after the premiere - and for 75 years the public has seen only the greatly truncated version.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Nov02/metropolis75.htm (603 words)

	DVD.net : Metropolis (2001) - DVD Review
		In the not-too-distant future, the vast utopian city of Metropolis buzzes with the hum of both its thriving commerce and its largely robot workforce.
		But lacking the fast-cut, fast-kill pace that is typical of the genre, Metropolis has a languid, almost Wings of Honneamise feel to it, and I must admit that the pace felt just a little lazy to this particular anime fan (who watches a lot of the aforementioned fast-cut, fast-kill).
		History of Metropolis: 11 pages of text recounting the history of the original Manga, and the journey undertaken by Rintaro and his team to realise Metropolis as we see it today.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=2083 (1949 words)

	Metropolis (2001) Review At DVDwolf.com
		Synopsis: Set in the future, Metropolis is a grand city-state populated by humans and robots, the cohabitants of a strictly segmented society.
		The fact that all sound seems to fade as they then blare the old classic "I Can't Stop Loving You" is not only an inspired choice it's a truly disquieting one that works on levels that strike you as you leave the theatre.
		A definite 4 out of 5 and after a re-screening on the DVD I might be coaxed into a 4.5 (it won't have a commentary to give it that necessary.5).
	www.dvdwolf.com /templates/dsp_movie.php?u_movieid=73145 (410 words)

	Metropolis (2001)
		Strange Corridors: This new Metropolis is not based on the Fritz Lang movie of the same name, although it shares with it two central images: the vast future city and the robot girl.
		Tezuka had not seen Lang's Metropolis before he created the comic book, but he HAD seen the the movie poster, from which he drew the images of the city in all its art-deco splendour, and the image of the robot girl.
		The plot of the movie as a whole is an excuse to fill the screen with an eye-drugging vision of a future city.
	www.tranquility.net /~benedict/metropolis2001.html (635 words)

	Metropolis
		Metropolis is one of the few anime (or Japanese animation) movies to get a mainstream release outside Japan.
		It should come as no surprise that Metropolis is in fact based on a popular manga (Japanese comic book) published shortly after World War II, which was in turn inspired by the seminal 1926 movie Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang.
		Lang's movie was a favourite of Hitler's (who didn't really catch it) and inspired the likes of Star Wars, Blade Runner and The Fifth Element.
	www.scifimoviepage.com /metropolis.html (730 words)

	Metropolis (2001) - Review - Moviefone
		Seeing it is a time-bending experience, a way of visiting the past and glimpsing the past's idea of the future.
		A masterpiece of art direction, the movie has influenced our vision of the future ever since, with its imposing white monoliths and starched facades.
		Metropolis retains its power to overwhelm, trouble and move because it is connected to the deep anxieties of modern life as if by a high-voltage cable.
	movies.aol.com /movie/metropolis-2001/12568/reviews (178 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Metropolis (2001)
		An elaborate and expensive anime from the top names in the field, Metropolis is based upon a comic book from the late forties, when it must have seemed very ahead of its time.
		Metropolis is served by thousands of robot slaves but Tima is a hybrid programmed to rule in a special throne atop the tower.
		This animated Metropolis is a visual delight from one end to the other, a draftsman's dream of an architectual future.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s463metrop.html (1746 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| We, robots!
		From the destructive mechanical witch of the silent era "Metropolis" to the parasitic life-sucking machines of "The Matrix," robots -- the technologized humanoids of science fiction -- have sought to destroy or enslave humanity over the history of film.
		The obscure 1962 B-movie "Creation of the Humanoids" is one of the few movies to deal sympathetically with intelligent machines; it's the story of empathetic robots who carry out a plan to save humanity.
		Classic cyberpunk movie "Blade Runner" imagines beautiful, life-loving android "replicants" -- the workers, entertainers and soldiers of the future -- revolting against their servile positions and their coldhearted human creators.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/feature/2001/06/21/robots/print.html (1310 words)

	Metropolis - Kino on Video
		Perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films, Metropolis had for 75 years been seen only in shortened or truncated versions.
		Metropolis takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor.
		The tense balance of these two societies is realized through images that are among the most famous of the 20th century, many of which presage such sci-fi landmarks as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner.
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?film_id=519 (350 words)

	Metoroporisu (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Metropolis is based on Tesuka Osamus first manga and later gave inspiration to his more famous "Astro Boy".
		Some story elements and characters from Tesukas later works are clearly inserted in Metropolis to make it work as a movie, which in this case is good...
		The choice of music is, in my opinion, daring and rather funny; jazzy tunes spiced with hits from the 60s (Ray Charles) sets the tone of the "optimistic atomic age".
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0293416 (433 words)

	BBC Online - Films - Review - Superman: The Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Making good of the boastful tag line "You'll believe a Man can fly", "Superman The Movie" remains a defining high point of Hollywood's tumultuous relationship with superheroes.
		Affectionately directed with an unerring sense of verisimilitude by Richard Donner, with a witty script by Tom Mankiewicz which balances naiveté and knowingness, and a superb John Williams score, the film handles the source material's ludicrous conceits with dazzling straight-faced aplomb.
		The movie sees Superman squaring off against Lex Luthor (a campy Hackman), whose [admittedly thin] plot of destroying California to facilitate land-fraud leads to all manner of super-heroics.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2001/09/25/superman_the_movie_1978_review.shtml (350 words)

	The Anime Critic - Metropolis Review
		Set in an alternate future, the city of Metropolis is a modern utopia built on the backs of robot labor and filled with a brimming, diverse populace.
		Detective Ban is in Metropolis to locate and arrest a scientist wanted in Japan for human-rights violations, with Kenichi along for the ride.
		Lavish attention is spent on rendering all the settings in Metropolis in utmost detail, a feat fully appreciated on larger screens.
	www.animecritic.com /metropolis/anr-metropolis.html (810 words)

	Metropolis
		During the middle of a florid speech by Duke Red, the prime mover and shaker of Metropolis, a disruptive party crasher is shot and killed by a young security guard, But after it turns out the gatecrasher was just a robot, the young guard goes nonchalantly on his way.
		With elements cribbed from Lang's Metropolis, Welles' Kane, and Eisenstein's Potemkin, the true wonder of Rintarô's Metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own.
		The movie is for fans who can't stop loving anime, and the fanatical excess built into it.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1111058-metropolis (943 words)

	Movie Review
		METROPOLIS (Metoroporisu) is a Japanese animated movie directed by Rintaro in 2001.
		Duke Red is conspiring against the government and hopes to overthrow it on the occasion of the celebration of the completion of the towering Ziggurat, a monument built by his society.
		While the revolution, whose leaders are manipulated by Duke Red, is raging on the surface, Tima and his new friends try to escape Rock through the three subterranean zones, inhabitated by robots, which lay under Metropolis.
	www.allwatchers.com /MovieRView.asp?BRID=114551 (175 words)

	BBC - Films - Review - Metropolis
		With "Metropolis" Fritz Lang took German Expressionism to epic proportions, creating spectacular set-pieces that exploded the claustrophobic mindscapes of its stylistic precursor "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari".
		Above ground the indulgent leisure class lives in relative ease, while in the bowels of the city hoards of faceless grunts operate grotesque machines.
		John Frederson, son of the Master of Metropolis, crosses this boundary and witnesses not only the suffering beneath, but also a virginal oracle named Maria who preaches to the workers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2001/03/01/metropolis_1927_review.shtml (206 words)

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