In order to deepen your analysis of the films Metropolis and Modern Times and to improve your essay, we are going to start doing research on the films.
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Skim the information about the movies. Cut and paste some interesting quotes into a blog. Make sure you record the web address where you found the information above the information. Find at least 10 quotes.
-"The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization."
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film)
-"A lot of movies are said to be timeless, but somehow in their immortality they fail to draw audiences. They lead a sort of half-life in film society revivals, and turn up every now and then on the late show."
-"They're classics, everyone agrees, but that word "classic" has become terribly cheap in relation to movies. It's applied so promiscuously that by now the only thing you can be sure of about a "film classic" is that it isn't actually in current release."
-"The millions of followers and fans who cheered him in his Little Tramp days are now mostly a memory; if 85 per cent of the American movie audience is under 35, as industry statistics claim, then 85 per cent of Charlie's original audience must probably be over 35."
-"So his decision to release a series of his best films must have sometimes seemed like a risk. His name is enshrined among the greatest geniuses of film; the French have a movie magazine titled simply Charlie, and Vachel Lindsay said a long time ago, "The cinema IS Chaplin." He had proven his greatness in every possible way; but then, at 81, he decided to put some of his films on the market again and see how they fared."
-http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19720125/REVIEWS/201250301/1023
-"Metropolis is a 1927 silent German expressionism science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and Thea von Harbou. Lang and von Harbou, who were married, wrote the screenplay in 1924, and published a novelization in 1926, before the film was released."
-"Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolisdystopia and examines a common science fiction theme of the day: the social crisis between workers and owners in capitalism."
-"Metropolis was produced in the Babelsberg Studios by Universum Film A.G.1927. The most expensive film of its time, it cost approximately 7 million Reichsmark to make."
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)
-"Generally considered the first great science-fiction film, ``Metropolis'' (1926) fixed for the rest of the century the image of a futuristic city as a hell of scientific progress and human despair."
-"From this film, in various ways, descended not only ``Dark City'' but ``Blade Runner,'' ``The Fifth Element,'' ``Alphaville,'' ``Escape From L.A.,'' ``Gattaca,'' and Batman's Gotham City. The laboratory of its evil genius, Rotwang, created the visual look of mad scientists for decades to come, especially after it was mirrored in ``Bride of Frankenstein'' (1935). And the device of the ``false Maria,'' the robot who looks like a human being, inspired the ``Replicants'' of ``Blade Runner.''"
-"``Metropolis'' employed vast sets, 25,000 extras and astonishing special effects to create two worlds: the great city of Metropolis, with its stadiums, skyscrapers and expressways in the sky, and the subterranean workers' city, where the clock face shows 10 hours to cram another day into the workweek."
-http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980328/REVIEWS08/401010341/1023
is set in a futuristic urban (UFA) and released in
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