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This 3 page paper deals briefly with the similarities and differences, and the problems explored in the movies Blade Runner and Metropolis. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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striking as well. This paper deals briefly with the similarities and differences, and the problems explored in these movies. Discussion Both of these films give us bleak
pictures of the future, though Metropolis has a resolution that gives us hope that the situation will end well. There is no such hopeful finish to Blade Runner (the
directors cut); though the first release had a "tacked on" happy ending that didnt really fit the tone of the film. Lets start with Metropolis (1927), since most critics tell
us that it inspired the later film. In the Fritz Lang classic, the people of Metropolis are clearly divided into two groups: the "thinkers" and masters of the
city who live in Metropolis itself; and the workers, who live and work deep underground. Conditions in the workers city are horrible; they are slaves to the machines that
provide power for Metropolis far above. Maria, a beautiful young woman, takes the side of the workers but urges them not to revolt, but instead to wait for a "Mediator"
who will bring the two sides together. Freder, the son of Fredersen, Master of Metropolis, becomes infatuated with Maria and joins her in the attempt to help the workers
against his father. Meanwhile, Fredersen orders the scientist Rotwang to create a robot that looks like Maria; he plans to use the look-alike to stir up trouble with the
workers to give him a pretext to crush the incipient revolt (Metropolis, 2005). Rotwang imprisons the real Maria while the robot sparks a revolt; the workers destroy the "Heart Machine"
that powers the city, but in doing so they create a flood that apparently drowns their children (Metropolis, 2005). In fury, they burn "Maria" at the stake, only to
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