tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36605353.post6067430241876223336..comments2023-12-29T06:45:07.851-08:00Comments on John Glenn Taylor's Easily Mused: The Most Silent MovieJohn Glenn Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262311564714604201noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36605353.post-73113091385994235122010-10-07T08:06:24.244-07:002010-10-07T08:06:24.244-07:00What's always caused me to disconnect from Met...What's always caused me to disconnect from Metroplis is that, y'know, it doesn't...actually...make...any...sense.Pippynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36605353.post-69454889261228792802010-08-10T23:53:13.339-07:002010-08-10T23:53:13.339-07:00Although Lang himself was horrified by Nazism, Met...Although Lang himself was horrified by Nazism, <i>Metropolis</i> and Lang's previous two films, <i>Die Nibelungen</i> and <i>Kriemhilds Rache</i>, helped prepare the ground for the Nazism.<br /><br />The earlier films had helped further revive the Aryan myth (though they are also admired by people with no sympathy for that myth).<br /><br /><i>Metropolis</i> presented a vision of a technocratic world in which (contrary to the technocratic vision of the such as the Marxists) distinct social classes (metaphorically, the head and the hand) remained but (in the resolution) would be bound together by one spirit (the heart). That's a large part of the fantasy that Fascists were selling, and that Nazis would likewise offer.Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.com