‘’Metropolis’’ Poster Sells For Whopping L390,000!
By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright November 17, 2005
An original, limited edition poster from Director Fritz Lang’s iconic, science fiction silent film classic, ‘’Metropolis’’, one of only 4 original prints left, known to be in existence, sold for a hefty L390,000. The poster, from 1926 set a world record price for a vintage poster.
The print, a Sepia, depicts the film’s iconic, equal parts daunting, steely ice cold, yet sensually surreal, female robot, posed in front of the utopian city of the future, in which the film takes place.
The poster was sold by London’s Reel Poster Gallery to an anonymous American collector. (It was us! Just joking, but we sure would love to have that piece of legendary film memorabilia).
The 2nd of the 4 ‘’Metropolis’’ posters sold for $357,000 in New York back in 2000. The 3rd and 4th posters are respectively in the acquisitions of the Berlin Film Museum and The Museum Of Modern Art in New York.
Amazing that after nearly an entire century, the lure that this film, and anything involved with it still holds. Made long before CGI and blue screens were invented and made special effects as easy as the click of a mouse and a computer keystroke, the film remains timeless in its still mind boggling special effects and most of all, its unprecedented, character driven, outstanding 1984 look into an ‘’idealistic’’ future that turned out to be more of a nightmare, in which the ultra rich, lose all sense of humanity and compassion for mankind as a whole, placing their own personal pleasure and wealth over the common good, safety, value, and very lives of anyone lacking upper society echelon privilege.
The film, way ahead of its time, couldn’t be more of an actual sign of our own times here in 2005, when every day, thousands die each and every day of starvation and poverty around the world, as the privileged few, obliviously live large in the digital age, high atop their ivory towers.
George Lucas’s cardboard, stilted dialogue and narratives and CGI overload of the ‘’Star Wars’’ prequels could take a lesson from the brilliantly intelligent, emotional storytelling and YES dialogue…even if it was written subtitles to a silent film, and lesson for the ages…of Fritz Lang’s masterpiece of cinema.
Source:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14929-1873856,00.html
Muse News And Micro Muse November 17, 2005
By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright November 17, 2005
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