This version runs 123 minutes and features a new recording of the original musical score used for the 1927 german version. Lots of people always ask what makes a movie great, and in particular, metropolis. Metropolis employs huge sets to show the hellish factories of the subterranean world.
The story is about a young rich kid without a care in the world who becomes concerned about the way that society (metropolis) was run by his father, john frederson, the master of metropolis. It was not before the seventies that film historian enno patalas tried to find those lost scenes. The models of the city's towering skyscrapers are also surprisingly convincing for a 1920s film.
Seen in context of its premier in 1927, metropolis is a giant of filmdom and film history. Lang himself called metropolis a movie which no longer existed. It uses special intertitles to describe what took place in the footage. In the pioneering science fiction feature film, metropolis tells the story of man and machines living alongside one another, whether one rules the other or enslaves the other no one can truly.
The story is about a young rich kid without a care in the world who becomes concerned about the way that society (metropolis) was run by his father, john frederson, the master of metropolis. Metropolis is a film that hailed in a new era of making films with it futuristic settings, halluciatory scenes, and its breadth of spirit and sheer scope, most clearly exhibited by its cast of epic.