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Metropolis

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Metropolis	comment	Metropolis is a silent 1927 German sci-fi film directed by Fritz Lang. Considered one of the forerunners of the genre, it was at the time one of the most expensive films ever made (it cost a bit over 5 million 1927 reichsmarks, a few tens of millions in current euros or dollars). The plot takes place in the year 2027 note As confirmed in the official booklet where society has divided into two sections: the underground lair of the workers and the skyscraper city of the elite. Freder, a member of the city's elite, falls in love with a worker's daughter named Maria, and the class confrontation between them is fueled by Rotwang, a Mad Scientist rival of Freder's father, city ruler Joh Fredersen.Aside from its progressive storytelling, it is also known for being heavily fragmented, the results of both heavy Bowdlerization in its trip to foreign markets, and of poor preservation techniques back in the '30s (plus a little thing called World War II). For decades, up to 25% of the original footage was considered lost as a result. Several attempts have been made to reconstruct the film, most notably: invoked An 83-minute, color-tinted 1984 restoration by composer Giorgio Moroder, who also wrote a new pop-influenced soundtrack that proved to be highly controversial. It was available on VHS and laserdisc at first, but was later taken out of production due to issues with music licensing. In 2011 Kino International, current holder of the rights to the film, released this cut on home video after successfully sorting out these problems. A restoration commissioned by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung in 1998, incorporating footage discovered in film archives around the world and a new recording of the original score. This version had its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001 and was released on home video as the "Restored Authorized Edition" in 2003; it runs 124 minutes. The Complete Metropolis, a restoration based on a full copy of the original film that was discovered at a museum in Argentina in 2008. Although heavily damaged, it confirmed the exact running order of scenes, which could only be guessed at in earlier projects. Footage from both this copy and a second one archived in New Zealand was cleaned up as much as possible and integrated into the 2001 version, but two scenes (of a monk preaching and a fight between Rotwang and Fredersen) were too damaged to be of use. This version runs about five minutes short of Lang's original cut, as opposed to nearly an hour short in some earlier versions, with title cards inserted to describe the missing scenes. It made its big US debut at the Turner Classic Movies Festival in early 2010 and on television on Turner Classic Movies in November 2010. This nearly complete, 148-minute version was released on DVD and Blu-ray in late 2010.This Troperiffic film is either the Trope Codifier or possible Ur-Example for approximately 76.5% of science fiction tropes. Among many, many other things, it's the first movie to have a robot in it.note Well, the first one to feature a clearly metallic, sentient robot, at least. Not to be confused with the anime film of the same name, which does take elements from here as well as a manga by Osamu Tezuka, which was itself Suggested by..., but not adapted from, this movie.
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Metropolis / int_127ebb74	type	A Sinister Clue
Metropolis / int_127ebb74	comment	A Sinister Clue: Rotwang's left hand.
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Metropolis / int_13b0f2e8	type	WeWillUseManualLabourInTheFuture
Metropolis / int_13b0f2e8	comment	We Will Use Manual Labour in the Future: In an audio commentary it is suggested that this is intentionally done by the city's leaders, so they have better control over the lower classes. In reality, machines are supposed to make life easier and be able to function without humans. Though it is said (how explicitly depends on the version) that Joh Fredersen is planning to replace the workers with robots. That is, sentient Ridiculously Human Robots capable of passing off as actual people. Basically artificial, more efficient manual labour.
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Metropolis / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
Metropolis / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: With the Paternoster Machine turned into a metaphorical clock that is going backwards, all the while threatening to overload and explode.
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Metropolis / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Metropolis / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Fritz Lang admitted after making the movie that saying "The mediator between the head and hands must be the heart!" is too simplistic of a way to deal with labor-management relations. The musical took this statement and ran with it, choosing to go with a complete Downer Ending where the mutual hate between both classes combines to doom the entire city but a small handful of survivors, mostly Maria's students.
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Metropolis / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Metropolis / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Zig-Zagged. Neither the the film nor the book ever specify the year of the setting, at least if one goes by the original versions since subsequent editions of the film/book, none of which approved by Fritz Lang or Thea von Harbou, will sometimes add a random futuristic year to the setting and call it a day. However, the program for the 1927 London premiere estimates that the story takes place "one hundred years hence". This would mean that the story takes place around 2027, give or take a few years.
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Metropolis / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Metropolis / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Rotwang talking to Joh Fredersen calls the city "your metropolis". In a restored scene, the Thin Man can be seen◊ reading a copy of the Metropolis Courier, he also carries checks of the Metropolis Central Bank.
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Metropolis / int_19028da	type	Eternal Engine
Metropolis / int_19028da	comment	Eternal Engine: The entire underground is some sort of Steam and Flame Factory.
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Metropolis / int_19e991a6	type	Extreme Speculative Stratification
Metropolis / int_19e991a6	comment	Extreme Speculative Stratification
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Metropolis / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Metropolis / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: A rare silent example occurs after Maria's kidnapping, where Freder runs through the city "shouting" Maria's name via intertitle cards.
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Metropolis / int_1b010521	type	Diesel Punk
Metropolis / int_1b010521	comment	Diesel Punk: Despite the cyberpunk themes, this is the movie's main punk aesthetic as it was released in The Roaring '20s when dieselization was beginning to supersede the steam engine. Most of the cars are of the Rumpler Tropfenwagen model, and the air transportation consist of biplanes, monoplanes, and zeppelins. The city landscape is inspired by 1920s New York, which itself has skyscrapers built in the Art Deco style.
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Metropolis / int_1c5bf1fd	type	The Tower
Metropolis / int_1c5bf1fd	comment	The Tower: "Gigantic, unimaginably huge, looms-over-everything" variety.
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Metropolis / int_1d47dc06	type	Alternative Calendar
Metropolis / int_1d47dc06	comment	Alternative Calendar: The workers' day has 20 hours (and their work takes ten), the rich people's the usual 24.
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Metropolis / int_1e1f2e51	type	Raygun Gothic
Metropolis / int_1e1f2e51	comment	Raygun Gothic: The future will be Art Deco.
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Metropolis / int_1e4ad177	type	Technicolor Science
Metropolis / int_1e4ad177	comment	Technicolor Science: In a black and white film no less. Rotwang's lab when he is transforming his mechanical girl has milky white liquids, transparent liquids, and dark colored liquids all boiling and bubbling away in strangely shaped glass containers.
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Metropolis / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Metropolis / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Rotwang's right hand, which he somehow lost in the process of making Maria. According to the book, he lost it in a laboratory accident.
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Metropolis / int_20917b55	type	Milking the Giant Cow
Metropolis / int_20917b55	comment	Milking the Giant Cow: Rotwang only loves one thing more than Hel, and that is wild gesticulation. Robot-Maria shares his liking for it, too.
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Metropolis / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Metropolis / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Maria reinterprets the story of the Tower of Babel as a failure of labor relations. A preacher also quotes Revelation Chapter 16 in a missing scene, which is later reprised in flashback during Freder's fever dream.
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Metropolis / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
Metropolis / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Rotwang. As he says: "Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the workers of the future?"
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Metropolis / int_2634314	type	Gloved Fist of Doom
Metropolis / int_2634314	comment	Gloved Fist of Doom: Rotwang wears a black glove over his artificial hand.
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Metropolis / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Metropolis / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The Machine Man is actually a Fembot.
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Metropolis / int_29c5faf	type	Background Halo
Metropolis / int_29c5faf	comment	Background Halo: Maria gets this quite a bit, especially as she is preaching to the workers in the catacombs.
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Metropolis / int_2dff6b95	type	Two Guys and a Girl
Metropolis / int_2dff6b95	comment	Two Guys and a Girl: The backstory of Rotwang, Hel, and Joh. It didn't end well.
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Metropolis / int_3298415e	type	Magic from Technology
Metropolis / int_3298415e	comment	Magic from Technology: Robot Maria's transformation. Of course, Rotwang's whole theme has all the trappings of a wizard as well as a scientist...
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Metropolis / int_34082c59	type	Wolverine Publicity
Metropolis / int_34082c59	comment	Wolverine Publicity: The Machine Man is the only character who appears on many of the movie's posters. She has a pretty important role in the story - and an iconic look - but she isn't the main character. It might make some sense on a symbolic level. She is implied to be the Whore of Babylon, who is said to represent a city, and the robot could be seen as a personification of the city of Metropolis.
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Metropolis / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Metropolis / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Rotwang. Again, one of the first, and the best.
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Metropolis / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
Metropolis / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: "Burn the witch!" On a pyre made of I-beams and burning automobiles. Too bad she's a robot.
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Metropolis / int_3862fa01	type	Ludd Was Right
Metropolis / int_3862fa01	comment	Ludd Was Right: A human rebellion stopped when the workers realize they are dependent on the machines for their lives.
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Metropolis / int_38a57680	type	Flying Car
Metropolis / int_38a57680	comment	Flying Car: Possibly, as far as its usual sci-fi portrayal goes; the planes dashing between buildings may not look like cars, but seem to fill the same role, and similar shots remain popular today.
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Metropolis / int_393ec3f9	type	Zeerust
Metropolis / int_393ec3f9	comment	Zeerust: Doubly so for the '80s New Wave soundtrack version.
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Metropolis / int_3b3d8430	type	The Constant
Metropolis / int_3b3d8430	comment	The Constant: Rotwang's house is beyond ancient, and sticks out like a sore thumb wedged in among the skyscrapers. It also has a secret door leading to The Catacombs. The very gothic cathedral, which also seems to be centuries older than the other houses in the city, counts as well.
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Metropolis / int_3c3c90f5	type	Overclocking Attack
Metropolis / int_3c3c90f5	comment	Overclocking Attack: To destroy the Heart machine. Grot tries to stave off Robot-Maria with a big wrench.
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Metropolis / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Metropolis / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Owing mainly to Zeerust. Notable in the use of ticker-tape machines and 1920's era automobiles everywhere. Specifically, consultation of the ticker tape causes Fredersen to immediately contact the Foreman on a flatscreen video phone/surveillance monitor.
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Metropolis / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Metropolis / int_3eed59a8	comment	Explosive Overclocking: The Heart Machine after the robot Maria and the workers overload it.
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Metropolis / int_40ff3c3b	type	Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains
Metropolis / int_40ff3c3b	comment	Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: Exaggerated and justified. The Real Maria works as a priestess, the False Maria works as a stripper.
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Metropolis / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Metropolis / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Maria, captured and imprisoned by Rotwang.
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Metropolis / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Metropolis / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel) wants to use Robot Maria (Brigitte Helm) to sow dissension in the workers' movement, but the robot, and her maker C. A. Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), have different ideas. While this trope is played completely straight in some versions of the movie, where it's said that Rotwang and Fredersen have lost control of the robot, the original version actually subverts it. The robot is working just as intended. She just happens to take orders from Rotwang, who is an Omnicidal Maniac. It still counts as this trope from Joh Fredersen's perspective, since it's implied that the robot's mechanical nature is the cause of her Lack of Empathy and her Undying Loyalty towards her creator. A human henchwoman might not have been quite as willing to carry out his plan.
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Metropolis / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
Metropolis / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Grot aka the Guardian of the Heart Machine, and The Thin Man (Der Schmale, Fritz Rasp), the main enforcer of Fredersen's schemes.
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Metropolis / int_5077c424	type	The Morlocks
Metropolis / int_5077c424	comment	The Morlocks: H. G. Wells got one up on Metropolis with this plotline, but Fritz Lang is more sympathetic.
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Metropolis / int_511728ae	type	Magic Versus Science
Metropolis / int_511728ae	comment	Magic Versus Science: This is Rotwang's whole theme. Inside a giant future Mega City is a little thatched cottage inside of which is a pentagrammed Mad Scientist Laboratory inside of which is a man dressed in robes with a robot hand. Robot Maria's transformation makes him practically a necromancer. In fact the whole film is both a pioneer of sci-fi and very heavy on biblical imagery.
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Metropolis / int_514491f	type	Job-Stealing Robot
Metropolis / int_514491f	comment	Job-Stealing Robot: Rotwang's robot is a prototype of a race of robots intended to eventually replace the human workers. This doesn't actually come to pass though. Instead, she replaces Maria more directly...
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Metropolis / int_5148024	type	Locked into Strangeness
Metropolis / int_5148024	comment	Locked into Strangeness: Fredersen has dark hair throughout most of the film, up until he sees Freder and Rotwang fighting atop the cathedral. By the time the fight is over and Rotwang has fallen to his death, most of Fredersen's hair has gone white from shock.
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Metropolis / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Metropolis / int_52d1f46e	comment	The scene where he chases Maria up to the top of the cathedral is arguably even worse. It may have looked bad before, but you could easily argue that it was not what it looked like. Here, he actually seems to be trying to rape her.
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Metropolis / int_5363f133	type	NotHerself
Metropolis / int_5363f133	comment	The workers do many stupid things in the third act. They completely fail to realise that their leader is clearly Not Herself (made worse by the fact that Freder - who, at this point, has met her a total number of twice - realises it almost immediately), they forget about their children and leave them behind in their city (even though they were specifically instructed to bring their sons along), and they destroy huge machines without thinking about the consequences (which even Grot calls them out on). This can, however, be somewhat justified by Robot-Maria being The Corruptor, and intending to cause havoc through the workers ("Let's watch the world go to the Devil!").
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Metropolis / int_5558641	type	Gratuitous Japanese
Metropolis / int_5558641	comment	"Yoshiwara" is also the name of the Red Light District of Tokyo since the early 17th century.
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Metropolis / int_58154a14	type	Bribe Backfire
Metropolis / int_58154a14	comment	Bribe Backfire: The Thin Man offers to let Josaphat name his price for leaving his apartment so that Freder can't meet up with him as arranged. Josaphat angrily refuses and throws the Thin Man's money back in his face.
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Metropolis / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Metropolis / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Rotwang goes plunging off a cathedral roof.
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Metropolis / int_5d25f366	type	You Can Leave Your Hat On
Metropolis / int_5d25f366	comment	You Can Leave Your Hat On: Yeah, you read that right. In 1927. The realism of Robot Maria's appearance is field-tested by taking her to Yoshiwara and having her do a striptease for the patrons. She's a big hit.
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Metropolis / int_630f60bd	type	Prayer Pose
Metropolis / int_630f60bd	comment	Prayer Pose: In the first sequence in the underground cathedral, Frieder is kneeling with clasped hands and backlighting to create a halo effect.
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Metropolis / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Metropolis / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Rotwang originally wanted the robot to replace Hel, before Joh ordered him to make it into a duplicate of Maria. Of course, Rotwang seemed to think that she actually was Hel.
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Metropolis / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Metropolis / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Georgy steps in front of a knife meant for Freder.
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Metropolis / int_65f5c15d	type	Designated Victim
Metropolis / int_65f5c15d	comment	Designated Victim: Maria. She goes from being a worker trapped in an underground city, to being attacked and kidnapped by Rotwang, to being trapped in the (now flooding) underground city again, to being chased by an angry mob, to finally being attacked by Rotwang yet again. Poor girl can't catch a break.
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Metropolis / int_67101c52	type	Rooftop Confrontation
Metropolis / int_67101c52	comment	Rooftop Confrontation: Freder and Rotwang have one on the cathedral.
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Metropolis / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
Metropolis / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: Rotwang's house. With doors that open and close on their own, it's also a Mobile Maze - and noticeably Bigger on the Inside, as several reviewers pointed out.
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Metropolis / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Metropolis / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Der Schmale", meaning "the thin one." Rotwang, meaning "red cheek" in German. "Yoshiwara" is also the name of the Red Light District of Tokyo since the early 17th century.
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Metropolis / int_6cf80934	type	Big Word Shout
Metropolis / int_6cf80934	comment	Big Word Shout: "MOLOCH!" "BABEL!" "BABEL!" "BABEL!"
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Metropolis / int_6ec4ae5b	type	Absurdly Cool City
Metropolis / int_6ec4ae5b	comment	Absurdly Cool City: Partially inspired by New York City's Art Deco artstyle, the city of Metropolis has many elevated highways and towering skyscrapers with the imposing Tower of Babel, Metropolis's tallest building, as its central structure.
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Metropolis / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
Metropolis / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper: He has a statue along with the Seven Deadly Sins in the cathedral. When Freder falls sick, he has a dream of it coming alive, and advancing on him with its scythe.
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Metropolis / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Metropolis / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Most participants get a chance to do really stupid things to further the plot, however, Joh Fredersen is worst. He is supposedly some sort of genius who created and runs Metropolis but he consistently makes idiotic decisions. Fredersen fires his right-hand man sending him into the workers' hellish abode. Needless to say, if a man knows a lot about you, it is a very bad idea to make him your enemy, let him live and send him to a place where you suspect a revolution is brewing. Then he trusts in Rotwang's loyalty and sanity despite the fact that evidence for doing the opposite is staring him in the face. Fredersen came alone to Rotwang. If Rotwang wanted revenge he could have just killed him then and there. Fortunately for Fredersen Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? doesn't seem to occur to Rotwang. Fredersen deliberately provokes a rebellion and lets the workers run amok among absolutely vital machinery for the purpose of having an excuse to strike them down, but doesn't seem to have a clue how to do the latter. The workers do many stupid things in the third act. They completely fail to realise that their leader is clearly Not Herself (made worse by the fact that Freder - who, at this point, has met her a total number of twice - realises it almost immediately), they forget about their children and leave them behind in their city (even though they were specifically instructed to bring their sons along), and they destroy huge machines without thinking about the consequences (which even Grot calls them out on). This can, however, be somewhat justified by Robot-Maria being The Corruptor, and intending to cause havoc through the workers ("Let's watch the world go to the Devil!"). Georgy (#11811) doesn't help Freder's efforts too much after trading places with him. Instead of going to Josaphat's apartment as promised, he finds a huge wad of cash in his (Freder's) pocket and spends the night at Yoshiwara. He stumbles out the next morning with a bad hangover and promptly gets caught by the Thin Man, who takes Josaphat's address from him and goes on to scramble Freder's plans even further. The only thing Georgy does right is to save Freder from being killed by the workers, at the cost of his own life.
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Metropolis / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
Metropolis / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: When the robotic Maria pushes the workers to riot.
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Metropolis / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
Metropolis / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: A minor one. In the film, Freder's line "Father! Father! Will ten hours never end??!!" seems to just be him finding the work unbearable. The book establishes that Freder's father actually is responsible for calling the work off, and he is late due to having visited Rotwang. This is not the case in the film, where the shift ends even without him present.
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Metropolis / int_7a562500	type	German Expressionism
Metropolis / int_7a562500	comment	German Expressionism: One of the most famous examples.
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Metropolis / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Metropolis / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Grot (Heinrich George) finally manages to get the workers to realize they've made a terrible mistake in destroying the machines and flooding the worker city by asking them where their children are. As they've left their kids in the worker's city, the workers don't take this well, though thankfully Freder and the real Maria are able to rescue all of the children before they drown.
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Metropolis / int_7f2c7fae	type	Explosive Instrumentation
Metropolis / int_7f2c7fae	comment	Explosive Instrumentation: Apparently, if the machines(especially the heart machine) are left unwatched for just a few minutes, they blow themselves up with lots of sparks and arc lightning thrown out. The workers don't really have to do anything to completely knock out all power to the city.
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Metropolis / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
Metropolis / int_816a4e80	comment	The original Ralph McQuarrie concept art of C-3PO looked nearly identical to a male version of robot-Maria, who also inspired the design of RoboCop and The Terminator with the idea of a robot wearing a human disguise.
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Metropolis / int_862ea4c1	type	Easily-Overheard Conversation
Metropolis / int_862ea4c1	comment	Easily-Overheard Conversation: Rotwang boasts to the imprisoned Maria about how he's taken revenge on Joh Fredersen by sabotaging his plans. Fredersen, standing outside Rotwang's house, hears everything. Cue fight scene, and Maria's chance to escape.
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Metropolis / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Metropolis / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Georgy (11811), the worker Freder takes the place of at the dial machine. His story was expanded on in the footage that was later cut. He is supposed to have Freder's chauffeur drive him to Josaphat's apartment, but after finding a lot of money in the pockets of his borrowed clothes, he spends the night at Yoshiwara instead. The next morning, the Thin Man catches Georgy and sends him back to his station; later, when the workers start rioting, Georgy protects Freder and is stabbed to death. Much of the lost footage also pertains to the Thin Man, who follows Freder, Georgy, and Josaphat at Joh Fredersen's behest. Most of this footage was found in Argentina in 2008 and restored then spliced into the then current version. There are still two scenes missing but the new version with the extra found footage is considered to be as complete as it'll ever be to the 1927 premier.
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Metropolis / int_86e12b9a	type	City Noir
Metropolis / int_86e12b9a	comment	City Noir (with giant tower with heliports on top overshadowing everything)
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Metropolis / int_86ee8070	type	World of Ham
Metropolis / int_86ee8070	comment	World of Ham: The actors, the extras, the soundtrack, the set design, the special effects and even the title cards all ham it up. Counts as Tropes Are Not Bad for many viewers, as this is precisely what makes the movie epic.
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Metropolis / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Metropolis / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: The Rumpler Tropfen-Auto. Probably a greater percentage of the total production run of them were destroyed for Metropolis than Dodge Chargers were for The Dukes of Hazzard.
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Metropolis / int_8a524789	type	Industrial Ghetto
Metropolis / int_8a524789	comment	Industrial Ghetto: The workers live in an underground city of featureless concrete buildings. During their work shift, they move to an upper underground level to operate the machinery and generate power for Metropolis.
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Metropolis / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Metropolis / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: The workers don't bring their children along during their uprising and after they destroy the Heart Machine, the worker city floods. Cue Grott finally managing to get their attention and asking them...where are your children? If it weren't for Freder and the real Maria, none of the kids would have survived the flooding.
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Metropolis / int_8e5c28c	type	Crystal Spires and Togas
Metropolis / int_8e5c28c	comment	Crystal Spires and Togas: The upper class' city.
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Metropolis / int_906ed7b4	type	Apocalypse Maiden
Metropolis / int_906ed7b4	comment	Apocalypse Maiden: Robot Maria.
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Metropolis / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Metropolis / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: The Machine Man.
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Metropolis / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Metropolis / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma
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Metropolis / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Metropolis / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Being an expressionist silent film, this gets very overt and heavy-handed at times. Crosses surround the heroes, and pentagrams surround the villains. Metropolis is likened to Babel throughout the film. Characters even hallucinate allegorical scenes out of the Old Testament. For example, Freder hallucinates the factories' machinery as Moloch, a god known for requiring child sacrifices, after the machinery injures the workers operating them. The real Maria is named after, and appears as, a saint much like the Virgin Mary; while the false (robot) Maria appears symbolically as Satan and as the Whore of Babylon. The underclass are living underground, literally below the upperclass, who live in skyskrapers. The sheer size of the Hel statueâ€”which dwarfs both Rotwang and Fredersenâ€”is obivously meant to show Rotwang's devotion to her, but it also shows the power she still holds over both men, even in death.
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Metropolis / int_941896b	type	Shaming the Mob
Metropolis / int_941896b	comment	Shaming the Mob: Foreman Grot finally manages to calm down the rioting workers and make them realize what they've done in flooding their own city by saying "Where are your children?!"
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Metropolis / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Metropolis / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Rotwang, after Joh Fredersen ambushes and beats the crap out of him.
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Metropolis / int_9979c2eb	type	Rings of Activation
Metropolis / int_9979c2eb	comment	Rings of Activation: When Rotwang activates his Robot Woman and has her take on the appearance of Maria, the transformation is accompanied by glowing rings that surround her, and travel up and down her body.
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Metropolis / int_99a7aa94	type	Seven Deadly Sins
Metropolis / int_99a7aa94	comment	Seven Deadly Sins: Fake Maria is seen as the epitome of this. Statues of the seven deadly sins are shown and even animated during a dream sequence, while she sits on top of a statue of a seven-headed dragon.
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Metropolis / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
Metropolis / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Robot-Maria's jerking her shoulders, whiplashing her neck and squinting her left eye a bit. Rotwang has a habit of raising his left eyebrow whilst thinking, Freder grabs hold of anybody who happens to be nearby when he rants, and Joh grabs his hair with his hands on the rare occasions that he gets scared.
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Metropolis / int_9c495599	type	Hide Your Children
Metropolis / int_9c495599	comment	Hide Your Children: Played with. Children appear early in the movie when Maria shows them the Eternal Gardens, but they seemingly disappear afterwards, not even appearing during the revolution which supposedly includes everyone in the workers' city. Turns out that the workers DID forget about them and that they are now trapped in the rapidly flooding city with no way of getting out. It's up to the heroes of the film to rescue them.
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Metropolis / int_9c4a7090	type	Springtime for Hitler
Metropolis / int_9c4a7090	comment	Springtime for Hitler: Director Fritz Lang later claimed he intended this film to be anti-Nazi propaganda (the party was still rising to power during the time this film was released). Ironically, the Nazi Party loved the film because it considered itself to be the heart that would mediate between the head and the hand, causing Lang to despise his own work. Lang's wife Thea von Harbou, who co-wrote the Metropolis script and had written the original novel, joined the Nazi Party in the early 1930s. The couple divorced not long after that. While Lang emigrated to America soon after the Nazi takeover, von Harbou remained in Germany and made movies for the Nazis until the end of World War II also brought an end to her career.
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Metropolis / int_9c6da41b	type	Spot the Imposter
Metropolis / int_9c6da41b	comment	Spot the Imposter: Happens at one point in the novel, where both the real and false Maria call out to Freder. Though this is before the robot's transformation, so Freder only hears the Marias and doesn't actually see them.
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Metropolis / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Metropolis / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Pretty much each character and event. Gottfried Huppertz's original score, as reconstructed and recorded in 2003 (and again in 2009), features these significantly. Freder, his father, Rotwang, Maria, Robot Maria, the machines of Metropolis, the nightclub-goers in Yoshiwara, and the uprising workers all have their own recurring themes.
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Metropolis / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
Metropolis / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Well, the workers don't really want to kill their masters, just blow up the machines. But they don't think it through very well...
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Metropolis / int_a2f1b41d	type	Robot Me
Metropolis / int_a2f1b41d	comment	Robot Me
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Metropolis / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
Metropolis / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: The "Dies Irae" theme figures heavily in the original soundtrack by Gottfried Huppertz, as does a tweaked version of the Marseillaise, which plays during the workers' revolution.
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Metropolis / int_a53a9319	type	Eye Tropes
Metropolis / int_a53a9319	comment	Eye Tropes: In Yoshiwara, during Robot Maria's dance, there's a montage of eyes watching her.
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Metropolis / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
Metropolis / int_a55ab01e	comment	Jerkass Realization: See Shaming the Mob below.
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Metropolis / int_a6254a7a	type	Loudness War
Metropolis / int_a6254a7a	comment	Loudness War: Giorgio Moroder's version, which served as the test run for the HPS-4000 cinema sound system, comparable to IMAX in terms of its acoustic power. Moroder, known as the founding father of disco, wanted to bring the sonic energy of dance clubs into the movie theater. The songs as heard in the film are mixed far louder and with more dynamic range than they are on the original soundtrack album.
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Metropolis / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Metropolis / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Joh's spy is called "The Thin Man" or "Slim" in English, and "der Schmale" (the thin one) in the original German titles.
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Metropolis / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Metropolis / int_a8f905e3	comment	While Rome Burns: The happy crowd from the Yoshiwara club while the city is being blacked out by the workers' revolution.
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Metropolis / int_aa8db5e2	type	Mega City
Metropolis / int_aa8db5e2	comment	Mega City: Metropolis seems to be pretty big. The book describes it as having fifty million inhabitants.
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Metropolis / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Metropolis / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Giorgio Moroder's version is a love it or hate it, cult adaptation. Featuring Jon Anderson (of Yes), Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, "Destruction" by Loverboy, Bonnie Tyler, Freddie Mercury, Cycle V and Moroder himself. Yes. Hard to find.note Even on YouTube — apparently the FW Murnau Foundation is against it, though they aren't against any other version appearing on YouTube...
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Metropolis / int_ad5283e1	type	Robot Girl
Metropolis / int_ad5283e1	comment	Robot Girl
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Metropolis / int_aed29b5c	type	Die Laughing
Metropolis / int_aed29b5c	comment	Die Laughing: A rather dark example. The False Maria starts laughing maniacally when she is taken to be burned alive and doesn't stop until she is killed by the fire.
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Metropolis / int_b0218885	type	Mickey Mousing
Metropolis / int_b0218885	comment	Mickey Mousing: Frequently in the original soundtrack. Unlike most examples, it's Played for Drama rather than comedy. Since the music is the only sound the movie has, it sometimes doubles as sound effects.
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Metropolis / int_b02f21f	type	Digital Destruction
Metropolis / int_b02f21f	comment	Digital Destruction: Thankfully averted in The Complete Metropolis. A special feature on the restoration included on the Kino DVD release shows how the usual computerized 'clean-up' process for old films (which compares each frame to the one before and after to eliminate blemishes on the record) could make fast-moving objects (like a running man's legs) disappear. Therefore, the automated process was carefully supervised, and manual operations and techniques used to ensure that detail was not lost.
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Metropolis / int_b0485a20	type	Ditzy Genius
Metropolis / int_b0485a20	comment	Ditzy Genius: Maria again. She is an amazing orator with the political will and ambition to push for equality among the upper and lower classes... and when sufficiently frightened she has a tendency to run with arms flailing away from safety, bouncing into walls along the way.
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Metropolis / int_b097493c	type	Madonna-Whore Complex
Metropolis / int_b097493c	comment	Madonna-Whore Complex: The film contains one of the most explicit and extreme examples in fiction. The real Maria is passive, saintly, and demure, whilst Robot-Maria is an evil, hyperactive seductress. The former is (obviously) named after the original Madonna, the Virgin Mary, whilst the latter is repeatedly compared to the Whore of Babylon from the Book of Revelations. Less overtly, compare Maria's modest dress and job caring for children with the more revealing outfits of the upper-class women who flirt with Freder.
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Metropolis / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
Metropolis / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: Rotwang wants to kill the Fredersens and destroy the city
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Metropolis / int_b2595417	type	Nightmarish Factory
Metropolis / int_b2595417	comment	Nightmarish Factory: The machine city is a bad place. Steam, heat, noise, people working to (and past) the point of exhaustion, and equipment that can fail in spectacularly hazardous ways if not kept running just so.
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Metropolis / int_b39def3c	type	Deathly Dies Irae
Metropolis / int_b39def3c	comment	Deathly Dies Irae: The score for this Silent Movie included a daunting rendition of Dies Irae to accompany the master of Metropolis's order to have his son followed and reported on.
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Metropolis / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Metropolis / int_b434558	comment	Video Phone: How Fredersen communicates with Grot.
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Metropolis / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Metropolis / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Something of a plot point: The "M-Machine" that Freder stumbles upon during his trek through the underground city overheats and explodes, injuring or killing everyone stationed at it. The dead and wounded are casually hauled off and a new set comes in to take their place. Witnessing this scene is what makes Freder sympathetic to the workers' plight. Case of Truth in Television and Justified Trope: Safety-oriented machine design, safe operation rules and reimbursements for incidents are relatively modern concepts. Work conditions depicted in the movie were not so different from the work in early 20th-century factories.
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Metropolis / int_b4c1cd3f	type	Elseworlds
Metropolis / int_b4c1cd3f	comment	An Elseworlds one-shot that combined this Metropolis with Superman's.
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Metropolis / int_b7d773ab	type	Smash Cut
Metropolis / int_b7d773ab	comment	Smash Cut: As the workers' revolt begins, Fredersen sits in his high-rise office, gazing over the neon-lit splendor of Metropolis. Cut to the Heart Machine, the city's main power station, that the workers have just destroyed — on fire, buried in debris, shorting out everywhere — and then back to the skyline as the power grid completely fails.
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Metropolis / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Metropolis / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Von Harbou's novel was written in coordination with the film.
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Metropolis / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Metropolis / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: The names of the characters are a mixture of everyday names, phonetic spellings, nonstandard names and surnames: Gyorgy (or Georgy) is a Hungarian version of George. Fredersen is a Scandinavian or Low German surname. Names like 'Joh', 'Hel' and maybe even Josaphat (an outdated Hebraic name, shorted version of Jehosaphat) are completely out of circulation. Joh is short for Johann and Hel might be short for Helene.
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Metropolis / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
Metropolis / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: In the novel, Hel for both Joh Frederson and Rotwang. She not only kept both men from killing each other (though you could hardly blame them, what with their love triangle and all), she also made sure both men didn't let power go to their heads.
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Metropolis / int_bbc8a85d	type	Reluctant Mad Scientist
Metropolis / int_bbc8a85d	comment	Reluctant Mad Scientist: In some versions of the edit, Rotwang really just wants his lover back. Subverted in The Complete Metropolis, where it's clear that he doesn't mind his robot being used for unethical means. He just doesn't want Joh Fredersen to take her away from him.
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Metropolis / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Metropolis / int_bce16d24	comment	Most participants get a chance to do really stupid things to further the plot, however, Joh Fredersen is worst. He is supposedly some sort of genius who created and runs Metropolis but he consistently makes idiotic decisions. Fredersen fires his right-hand man sending him into the workers' hellish abode. Needless to say, if a man knows a lot about you, it is a very bad idea to make him your enemy, let him live and send him to a place where you suspect a revolution is brewing. Then he trusts in Rotwang's loyalty and sanity despite the fact that evidence for doing the opposite is staring him in the face. Fredersen came alone to Rotwang. If Rotwang wanted revenge he could have just killed him then and there. Fortunately for Fredersen Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? doesn't seem to occur to Rotwang. Fredersen deliberately provokes a rebellion and lets the workers run amok among absolutely vital machinery for the purpose of having an excuse to strike them down, but doesn't seem to have a clue how to do the latter.
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Metropolis / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Metropolis / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Freder (Gustav FrÃ¶hlich). It could be the fact that he seems to have the strangest affinity for hugging and caressing every human being he comes across, gender be damned.
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Metropolis / int_be192f18	type	Yes-Man
Metropolis / int_be192f18	comment	Yes-Man: Josaphat. Until he fails Fredersen for the last time.
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Metropolis / int_bf8ae149	type	Layered Metropolis
Metropolis / int_bf8ae149	comment	Layered Metropolis
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Metropolis / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
Metropolis / int_bfad4265	comment	I Have You Now, My Pretty: Every scene between Rotwang and Maria. Especially the one before the transformation sequence. It doesn't help that the next time we see them, Maria is naked, unconscious and strapped to a table. The scene where he chases Maria up to the top of the cathedral is arguably even worse. It may have looked bad before, but you could easily argue that it was not what it looked like. Here, he actually seems to be trying to rape her.
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Metropolis / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
Metropolis / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: After he's fired, Josaphat staggers out of Fredersen's office, pulls a gun out of his pocket, and lifts it to his head. Freder gets to him just in time.
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Metropolis / int_c1fffb62	type	Industrialized Evil
Metropolis / int_c1fffb62	comment	Industrialized Evil: Every day is the same bleak routine for the workers. Report to the machine rooms, perform unrelenting physical labor for ten hours, go home filthy and exhausted, lather, rinse, repeat. And if they're lucky, they won't collapse from overwork or be injured/killed when a machine blows its top.
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Metropolis / int_c253090a	type	Big Blackout
Metropolis / int_c253090a	comment	Big Blackout: The entire city of Metropolis experiences a blackout after the workers destroy the Heart Machine, which subsequently causes the other machinery to malfunction and collapse.
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Metropolis / int_c3cc5fa0	type	Mad Scientist Laboratory
Metropolis / int_c3cc5fa0	comment	Mad Scientist Laboratory: Rotwang's house.
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Metropolis / int_c5a0b4d3	type	Brain Fever
Metropolis / int_c5a0b4d3	comment	Brain Fever: Freder appears to fall victim to this after seeing Robot Maria embrace his father. It puts him out of action for ten days.
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Metropolis / int_c6339c44	type	Famous, Famous, Fictional
Metropolis / int_c6339c44	comment	Famous, Famous, Fictional: A variation. The story is of course set in the fictional city of Metropolis, but the book then goes on to establish that Joh Fredersen is recieving the evening exchange reports from New York and London when Freder interrupts him in his office.
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Metropolis / int_c66f2bb5	type	Witch Hunt
Metropolis / int_c66f2bb5	comment	Witch Hunt: Literally.
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Metropolis / int_c6c86cd	type	Collapsing Lair
Metropolis / int_c6c86cd	comment	Collapsing Lair: The Workers' city gets destroyed by a flood after the workers destroy the Heart Machine.
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Metropolis / int_c7575bab	type	ElvesVsDwarves
Metropolis / int_c7575bab	comment	Elves vs. Dwarves: Rich, hedonistic millionaires against poor, dirty underground workers. It's basically this trope. Even if both classes are human this time. The novel outright says that the worker's children has dwarf-like faces.
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Metropolis / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Metropolis / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Georgy catches a Yoshiwara flyer that has loose German translations of quotes from two famous literary figures: The author Oscar Wilde ("The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it"). The Persian poet Omar Khayyam ("In Paradise, they tell us, Houris dwell, / And fountains run with wine and oxymel: / If these be lawful in the world to come, / Surely 'tis right to love them here as well.").
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Metropolis / int_c81e6bf8	type	Necromantic
Metropolis / int_c81e6bf8	comment	Necromantic
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Metropolis / int_ca3ef034	type	Evil Knockoff
Metropolis / int_ca3ef034	comment	Evil Knockoff: Evil Robot Maria is a copy of Maria the angelic social worker.
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Metropolis / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Metropolis / int_ca87e3ec	comment	"Der Schmale", meaning "the thin one."
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Metropolis / int_cdb754f9	type	Futuristic Superhighway
Metropolis / int_cdb754f9	comment	Futuristic Superhighway: Establishing shots of the city show some eleven lanes of traffic on the ground (separated by a train track) criss-crossed by some absurdly high elevated roadways and railways.
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Metropolis / int_cf7bd78d	type	Steampunk
Metropolis / int_cf7bd78d	comment	Steampunk: Kind of. While there is plenty of retrofuturistic technology, only the factories' machinery actually count as steampunk. Unlike modern steampunk stories, the movie is very cynical about steampunk technology and portrays the factories' machinery as an evil god that consumes the bodies of the factory workers.
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Metropolis / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
Metropolis / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Freder's mother died giving birth to him, which is another reason Rotwang eventually decides on revenge against the Fredersens.
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Metropolis / int_d3aad64a	type	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
Metropolis / int_d3aad64a	comment	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Rotwang is a bad guy.
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Metropolis / int_d3c72b6f	type	Tower of Babel
Metropolis / int_d3c72b6f	comment	Tower of Babel: Referenced, with significant alterations. Maria's retelling alters the facts and changes the moral. The hubris is inverted ("And on the pedestal these words appear: 'Great is the world and its Maker, and great is Man!'") and retribution comes from paying too much attention to the idea and ignoring the workers. There is no confusion of tongues, but another clever inversion ("The praises of one became the curses of another. Although they spoke the same language, they could not understand one another's words"). The New Tower of Babel at the heart of the city is absolutely untouched by the destruction, and the divided classes are reunited.
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Metropolis / int_d485cb13	type	Psychotic Smirk
Metropolis / int_d485cb13	comment	Psychotic Smirk: Robot-Maria.
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Metropolis / int_dc2f86b9	type	Argentina Is Nazi-Land
Metropolis / int_dc2f86b9	comment	Argentina Is Nazi Land, on a meta level: This is where one of the last known copies of of the uncut film was discovered; it's a German movie that was popular with Hitler; you do the math.
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Metropolis / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
Metropolis / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: Most of the upper class seem to be this. Freder starts out this way, but he gets better rather quickly.
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Metropolis / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Metropolis / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Dramatically demonstrated with the montage of eyes watching Robot Maria during her striptease.
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Metropolis / int_e04ed269	type	Urban Segregation
Metropolis / int_e04ed269	comment	Urban Segregation: Again, almost a Trope Codifier, with the rich living in an opulent city filled with skyscrapers while the workers live in a mass of featureless concrete buildings deep underground.
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Metropolis / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Metropolis / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Josaphat's BSOD after being fired by Fredersen. He's so shocked and unable to focus that he can't find the doorknob on his way out.
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Metropolis / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Metropolis / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Josaphat (Theodor Loos), who returns Freder's affection to him and, unlike Freder, never shows any interest in women.
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Metropolis / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
Metropolis / int_e4900915	comment	Though it is said (how explicitly depends on the version) that Joh Fredersen is planning to replace the workers with robots. That is, sentient Ridiculously Human Robots capable of passing off as actual people. Basically artificial, more efficient manual labour.
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Metropolis / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
Metropolis / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: Or rather wrenches and lanterns. For the workers and upper classes respectively (although the latter did not initially intend anything destructive. But once they collide with the workers...).
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Metropolis / int_e542d80a	type	Gonk
Metropolis / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: In a film where everyone looks uniform, Rotwang — the Mad Scientist with fuzzy hair, bulging eyes, and a hunchback figure — really stands out. The same is true for his house, which appears to be hundreds of years old.
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Metropolis / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
Metropolis / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: Textbook male example, nearly four decades before Kirk.
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Metropolis / int_e8bb3043	type	Kill It with Water
Metropolis / int_e8bb3043	comment	Kill It with Water: The workers inflict this on their own city by destroying the machines, which causes the city's water reservoirs to burst and flood the place. If not for Maria, Freder, and Josaphat, the workers' kids would have drowned as well.
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Metropolis / int_e9234d2	type	Thunderbolts and Lightning
Metropolis / int_e9234d2	comment	Thunderbolts and Lightning: The destruction of the machines.
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Metropolis / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Metropolis / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: As the workers are rushing up from their city to destroy the machines, one woman triumphantly shouts, "Not one man or woman remain behind!" She's right, but all the kids get left back and nearly drown when the city floods.
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Metropolis / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
Metropolis / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: Workers are assigned ID numbers, shown on their caps and the placards at the entrances of their apartment buildings. The only one to get a specific name is Georgy (#11811).
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Metropolis / int_eb716c8c	type	Big Electric Switch
Metropolis / int_eb716c8c	comment	Big Electric Switch: Rotwang's lab has several of them, and the robot Maria overloads the Heart Machine by throwing one on its control panel.
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Metropolis / int_eddfe7e5	type	Underground City
Metropolis / int_eddfe7e5	comment	Underground City: The Workers' city is located in the depths below the actual city of Metropolis.
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Metropolis / int_ee1c6326	type	Mobile Maze
Metropolis / int_ee1c6326	comment	Mobile Maze: Rotwang's house. The doors can be completely sealed on a whim, which he uses against Freder and Maria at different points.
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Metropolis / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Metropolis / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: Initially shown to be Joh Fredersen, though it turns out that Rotwang was the real Chessmaster behind the near-destruction of Metropolis. In the book however, the plan was Fredersen's. Though it was arguably less evil, as his goal was to improve his city, not simply getting revenge.
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Metropolis / int_f6db5b1e	type	RidiculouslyHumanRobot
Metropolis / int_f6db5b1e	comment	Ridiculously Human Robot / Robot Girl / Robot Me: Futura/Robotrix/Fake Hel/Fake Maria/Machine Man/etc.
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Metropolis / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
Metropolis / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: Rotwang wants to destroy the city because Freder's mother chose the city's ruler over him. And then died giving birth to said ruler's son.
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Metropolis / int_f96f8980	type	Love Makes You Crazy
Metropolis / int_f96f8980	comment	Love Makes You Crazy: The Club of the Sons members start killing themselves and each other over the Maria Machine.
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Metropolis / int_faf36236	type	Cyberpunk
Metropolis / int_faf36236	comment	Cyberpunk
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Metropolis / int_fb01ee16	comment	Cyberpunk: The Ur-Example since it existed in 1927 before Blade Runner, AKIRA, Bruce Bethke's short story Cyberpunk, and Neuromancer created, named, and codified the genre in the 1980s. In hindsight, Metropolis anticipated most of the cyberpunk tropes. Like modern cyberpunk works, the setting is a Japanese-influenced, neon-lit city where the low-class workers spark a rebellion against the upper-class elite. The protagonists fit the cyberpunk rebel archetype as Freder is the ruler's son who dissents against his father while Maria is a visionary who leads the workers' revolution. If that is not enough, there is also a Mad Scientist with an Artificial Limb who unleashes a Killer Robot on Metropolis to incite more chaos. The only computer featured in the movie is Joh's ticker tape printer, but in true retrofuture fashion, it is treated as advanced technology that gives Joh Fredersen updates on the state of his factories and even provides him with a Video Phone to communicate with the foreman Grot.
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Metropolis / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Maria is this for all the children in the workers' city, and arguably for the adults too.
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Metropolis	hasFeature	Bizarrchitecture / int_b0ec45b8
Metropolis	hasFeature	Brain Fever / int_b0ec45b8
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Metropolis	hasFeature	Evil Knockoff / int_b0ec45b8
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Metropolis	hasFeature	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future / int_b0ec45b8
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Metropolis	hasFeature	You Are Number 6 / int_b0ec45b8
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