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A comparison between Lang's Metropolis and Capra's It Happened One Night, with particular reference to the importance of socio-economic factors in the two narratives. Bibliography lists 3 sources
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Although Langs Metropolis is generally regarded as an allegorical view of the industrialised and mechanised society of his time, with its robotic workers and capitalist/ paternalistic
overseer in the form of Joh Fredersen, there are actually a number of far more complex overtones and underlying themes relating to myth, religion and the dynamic interaction between men
and women, gods and goddesses. It is notable, for example, that the Eternal Gardens, which might be regarded as analogous to heaven, are created by the Fathers for the Sons:
no mention of the Mothers or the Daughters. The proletariat are depicted as sexless, undifferentiated and colourless, in contrast to the individual figures who represent identifiable mythological characters.
Romance, for the most part, is
exemplified by Robot Maria, who personifies at various points in the narrative the whore, the witch, and the dead woman in the Orpheus myth. She is adored as an object
of sexual desire by the masses, but when she threatens to eat men in the same way that industrialisation "eats" the working classes, they see her femaleness as a threat,
and she is burned as witch (evoking images of Joan of Arc, and martyrdom). Lang portrays, therefore, a society in which not only is there a strict hierarchical divide between
the workers and the bosses, but also a social and psychological gulf between male and female: Maria is not even human, but she displays all the varied characteristics of human
female sexuality as structured by a male-dominated society, and is in the end destroyed when she threatens that dominance.
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