Metropolis

Dystopian texts are often depicted by representations of real life problems such as dehumanisation as a result of technological advancement and governmental control. Although composed 20 years apart, both Fritz Lang’s futuristic dystopian silent film Metropolis and George Orwell’s prose fiction novel 1984 present simular prophetic warnings about the dystopian future of humanity. Both texts are a response to their own contextual concerns, as they respond to the vindictiveness and brutality that…

Both movies feature a futuristic city where the architecture is composed of mainly skyscrapers. Both movies have similar openings when the camera shows the tower of babel which is basically the main power in Metropolis putting it at the center before showing the rest of the city, a very similar shot is used in Blade Runner showing the tower which is the office of the company which creates the replicants and centers it also giving the building a sense of the power…

The movie Metropolis incorporates aspects of various political and social values in order to correctly convey its multiple underlying messages. The Authoritarian themes in this film are robust with the workers and higher class society operating their economy in parallel with that of a Fascist governmental system. The worker class who help the machines function are clearly designed to be viewed as short-sighted and easy suaded. Whether their leader be an seemingly normal pretty girl or a firm…

The film Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang, is a science fiction film, consisting of a futuristic city dystopia, follows the journey of Joh Fredersen, his son Freder, and a poor worker named Maria through their efforts to overcome the vast differences separating the working class and the elites of the city. Whilst the novel 1984 by George Orwell is also about a dystopian society that is controlled by ‘The Party’ follows the character, Winston Smith who decides to rebel against the Party and fall…

and attitudes may be conveyed through a range of readings through social, cultural and historical context which influence aspects of texts. Within Orwell’s novel ‘1984’ and Lang’s film ‘Metropolis’ (1927) context influences the composers’ choice of language forms and attitudes conveyed through the texts. Metropolis educates audiences of the industrialisation and consequent dystopia of post WWI society. Lang celebrates and critiques post WWI European “Machine Age” as a futuristic dystopian…

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, is a futuristic dystopian film that depicts a stark contrast between social classes within a society. The scene takes place underground and shows the shift change of the workers within the working class, a perfect example of the societal differences. In this film sequence using staging, cinematography and editing, Fritz Lang is able to express a hyperbolic representation of dominant ideologies revolving the working class. The setting and space in the sequence emphasizes…

Both Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and George Orwell’s 1984 are influenced by their contexts to a great extent. Lang and Orwell use their context to reinforce values and attitudes represented in their texts as to express a dystopian concern for the threat of a primary power within an accelerated industrial world. These concerns are explored through a direct threat individualism. Metropolis provides an optimistic view that not all hope is lost and change can be made, 1984 provides a pessimistic view…

In addition, the dehumanisation of society is a consequence consistent with totalitarian government and its extensive control and is explicitly portrayed throughout both 1984 and Metropolis. Exploring the repercussions of authoritarian government, Orwell’s novel was largely motivated by the politics and rhetoric present at the conclusion of the Second World War and the onset of the overwrought Cold War. Orwell’s construction of a condensed form of the English language, Newspeak, facilitates the…

successfully present the imminent dangers of the contemporary and social and political world to which they are surrounded in. Metropolis and 1984 both ominously represent the mechanisms of power in institutions that practice socio-political supremacy and tyranny. Metropolis and 1984 are vital examples of texts influenced by the context in which they were created. Both Metropolis and 1984, depict the ramifications of war and conflict from political, social and personal perspectives providing…

situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society. Through the comparative study of George Orwell’s prose fiction Novel “1984” and Fritz Lang’s German expressionist film “Metropolis” it is demonstrated that the reign of Totalitarian governments and technology has the power to over-run and remove civil liberties. These two composers similarly share the ethics for which society has the freedoms of individuality and…