Critique Of Metropolis

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Misha Turner Film Appreciation I 23 September 2011 Critique of Metropolis 1. Name the Director and 2 leading actors and the name of their characters. Fritz Lang- Director Alfred Abel- Joh Fredersen Gustav Frohlich- Freder 2. Give a plot synopsis. In the futuristic city of Metropolis, the wealthy citizens live a care-free life, while the workers who run the machines that run the city live below ground in squalor. One day while Freder, one of the wealthy, is frolicking in the garden, a woman (Maria) brings the workers children with her to show them their “brothers and sisters”. Freder is enamored with Maria, and follows her to the underground city. Upon finding the underground city, he sympathizes with the workers and finds out that Maria is like a prophet, and preaches a message of hope to the workers, that one day a mediator, or heart, will come to join the head (above ground) and hands (below ground workers). Freder’s father, Joh Fredersen is the city’s master, and finds out that the workers are planning something and goes to spy on them along with the crazy scientist Rotwang, who has recently invented a robot. Fredersen hears Maria preach to the workers and asks Rotwang to give the robot Maria’s face so that the workers will not follow her anymore. Meanwhile, Freder and Maria are falling in love. Then, Maria is kidnapped and Rotwang makes the robot look like Maria. The Maria-bot then incites the workers to revolt and the upper class into lasciviousness. When the workers revolt against the machines, it causes the underground city to flood. The real Maria and Freder save the children from the flood, but after the mob of angry workers burn the Maria-bot, Rotwang kidnaps the real Maria once again. Freder fights with Rotwang and ends ups saving Maria. The foreman of the workers and Joh Fredersen shake hands, with Freder’s help, signaling an understanding
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