Japon Cinema

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Lots of elements of science fiction with a city dominated by machines. No critics of capitalism or a mean boss but rather machines like Hannah Arendt will write latter that machines in replacing worker could annihilate mankind.

This goes even further with the man machine that will replace Maria, and of course be evil.

One of these elements was videophone that we can see during the revolution against machines when the boss and father is calling the chief operator with what appears to be a Skype 80 years before his invention. This is well-done or well thought as we can observe the same scene in 2001 space odyssey also considered as science fiction but in 1968…

4) Why fascist propaganda

Expressionism was extremely popular at the time especially in Germany and berlin and Fritz lang will use it a lot.

It after the first half of them movie, and even if you love science fiction you will start to be annoyed by this expressionism

It is absurd to say that the heart is the intermediary between the hands and the brain

-some critics write that Metropolis was a fascist movie, pré-nazi

mile Siegfried Kracauer, in his famous book « From Caligari to Hitler” published in 1947, according to him, when Maria calls for the “ the heart is the intermediary between the hands and the brain” could have been said by Goebbels »

- Who feeds the machine with their own flesh

- Let the machines starve, let them die said the machine man / maria

To prevent the rebellion the boss of the city asks a scientist to invent a robot in the image of the girl in question. So the revolution of people is evil like a criticism of communism or Left Socialist Revolutionaries

I can’t accept today the leitmotif of the message of the film.

Not only it is absurd to say that the heart is the intermediary between the hands and the brain, that is, of course, between the employee and the employer. The problem is social and not moral.

- You remember the clocks and the man who works in harmony with them? He became, so to speak, a part of the machine. Well, that seemed to be too symbolic, too simplistic in its evocation of what is called “the evils of mechanization.” Like fascism the negation of individualism

- Typical of fascism ideology of looking for a scapegoat to every problem : here evil maria looking for destruction of the city and people not responsible but manipulated

- Hitler favorite might be because of the image of mass easily led/ and typical passion and romantic german movement even if cheesy today really extremely Wagnerian

Conclusion:

even if movie innovative and historically interesting absurdity of the leitmotif final scene with the boss extremely mean who organise the destruction of his own people is still someone you can empathuze with thanks to his son. Science fi and clearly serve a purpose even fritz lang alays denied it.

- With reference to The Kid and Sherlock Jnr, identify the key differences in comedic technique between Chaplin and Keaton. Chaplin was more popular than Keaton in his day. Do you think this hierarchy is critically justified?

- both chaplin and Keaton were born in vaudevillian family and so they made lots of movies based on this type of comedy.

They used a lot of absurd repetitive humour, jokes that did not really age.

- Characteristic of Chaplin

- As a teenager, Chaplin is really into burlesque comedy, and he is of commedia dell'arte

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- Chaplin might be more popular also because of McCarthyism when he was suspected of being communist so an enemy of the us government at the time and under investigation by the FBI which revoke his visa… It certainly adds to the legend

- One of the main characteristic of Chaplin that we can also see in the KID it that Chaplin play almost always the “Trump” or a loser that will make us laugh and relax in a way about disappointment that we surely experienced once in our lives. Chaplin has a sad life

- Truly cartoony and target adults as well as kids. Trump is helpless to his environment as a goofy hero with baggy trousers and too big shoes.

- Very slapstick comedy when the policeman fight with them.

- Might be vulgar and laughing to people misfortune

- In the kid, we can observe many stati frame and medium close-up. This one of the main critic of Chaplin in using static frame because it is highly similar of theatre and sometimes it is not necessary to use a camera as everything could have been done in a theatre.

- A lot of social comment in the inequality between rich and tramps show with the social services taking the kid without any proof and gave him to the rich lady. Capitalism are being criticised and especially machines but not so much in the KID.

- Women are typically shown romantized and naïve like the rick mother of the KID

- His trump’s persona is vulnerable, outcast, and a sublime mime. Characters are resilient but never adapt or truly learn something this type of humour is still trendy today in the Simpson or American Dad.

- Difference in Keaton’s approach

- Keaton even if similar differs in numerous ways has a better narrative integration, as the story is more complicated and profound. Like in Sherlock junior when the story of Sherlock junior in integrated as a movie within the movie

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- Keaton is more modern with focus on characters and their reactions ot a series of events when in Chaplin characters are helpless, Keaton will try to make characters to progress

- Keaton has a more deadpan humour deliberately emotionless and otherwise impassive, expresses a calm, sincere, or grave demeanour, dry humour and seemed not intentional and so more effective as less forced

- Buster Keaton was never particularly considered to be a producer of films that were socially or politically engaged.

- Extreme physical

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