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Published: 2010-01-21 09:10:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 2713; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 84
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More "Metropolis" sketches:Joh Frederson, ruler of Metropolis and Rotwang's old rival (Alfred Abel's eyeliner is more sinister than Gotham's mayor's). More of Rotwang, 'coz I like him.
Also the virginal Maria, spiritual leader of the lower classes, and False Maria, her evil mechanical double.
I haven't bothered drawing the hero yet, on account of he's a bit of a twit.
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You've nailed all of the expressions! False Maria is just perfect.
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I love this movie and your draws is amazing! Good work <3
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i love this movie so much...i love your style of drawing too 
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your style is so good. I love this picture. For me machine Maria is the best, she so crazy
Metropolis is one of the best german movies for me. I'm a german girl and I don't like the new german movies...
The old movies like Metropolis are better.
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Good gravy, I love you I love you I love you for these. Just- I'm so happy there are fans as ardent as you are about this movie and its characters. You drew them SO WELL. URGHHHH
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Aw. Thank you so much!
Ardent, hell yes! I feel your pain - it totally ROCKS, but no one knows about it! Maybe one day silent film will be cool again - but in the meantime, you only ever find other fans on the internet. (Pleased to meet you, by the way.)
How excited are we for the new restoration? SOOOOO EXCITED.
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It just isn't fair. But hey, at least there are others! Like you! 
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Yo!! did you know know that the people recently founds some lost footage of metropolis!!
they said it has the famous scenes that was once in the film before it was cut!!
they are going to restore!!
YAY!!
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Yeah, I heard about that - all those missing bits with Josaphat and the Thin Man, and the monk in the cathedral. I can't wait to see the film like it was originally.
Thanks for faving, by the way!
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Amazing, these sketches of yours, they really capture the souls of the characters - especially love the two Marias next to each other at the bottom, and Rotwang doing that awesome eyebrow thing 
I’d been looking for this movie for ages and only just managed to get hold of it a few days ago. Unfortunately the quality was abysmal, but hey, you take what you can get.
And, I dunno… I suppose you could say he was a twit, but I think his acting was just utterly over-the-top, even by silent film standards - heck, if the guy who acted his father could give such a brilliant performance that means it was possible back then.
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Thank you so much!
Eehee. Yes. I do love the eyebrow thing.
Oh dear. I hope you managed to get ahold of the 2002 Kino restoration - it's by far the most coherent and complete version out there.
(If not, the Kino version is on Youtube in fairly high quality, and with a new musical score that I think is rather neat -[link] )
Haha, I'm inclined to agree - Alfred Abel = restrained brilliance. By comparison Gustav Frolich just sort of...er...flailed.
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Flail fail *gigglesnort* I’m so sorry - lame, but I couldn’t resist.
Thanks for the link, I shall watch it when I can. Unfortunately that is not now, since our University res policy is to block YouTube because it eats so much bandwidth. I really hate them. A plan will have to be made
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Oh, the pun was most definitely intended.
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oh god, you know I love these.
on a related note, have you seen Dr. Mabuse?
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eehee such taste you have.
Speak of the devil - I've been searching for a copy of Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler for days on end now and NO ONE has it!
I've concluded that Edmonton fails, fails, FAILS at German film and literature. I mean, there is not a single translation of E.T.A. Hoffman in the CITY.
And now there is no Klein-Rogge. ARGH.
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<3 HOFFMAN OMFG I just ordered a ballet version of the Offenbach opera Tales of Hoffman on dvd. Hopefully it comes soon so that I may wallow in costumed delight. and speaking of which, you probably should see this: [link] Unless you have trouble sleeping at night, in which case, maybe not. *twitch* I'd kill to get my hands on a copy of the book. ;__;
garglefrastering fooplepops! If I'd known you needed a copy of mabuse I'd have sent you a copy with your present. Woe! I think we got ours off of netflix, if that's of any help.
Oh Fritz Lang how we love thee.
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Hmm. Perhaps I *shall* trawl through the online video community for some Mabuse. In the meantime I'm getting Spione and "M" out of the library...
Heehee, I sent that animation to Alice a couple days ago! GOD that thing is creepy!
So whaddaya bet that Gaiman's Corinthian was based in part on Hoffman's Sandman?
SPEAKING OF MY PRESENT: I got it! I got it! It came in ze mails! And it is now on my bookshelf next to the 1001 Nights, oozing delicious antique-y-ness! (Hoo man that is not a flattering portrait of Savonarola though) So, like...it is a history of the Renaissance...but in dialogue form?
Even if I can't read a word of it I shall cherish it! Thank you!
Also words cannot express my excitement at recieving a letter with a SEAL on it. I was incredibly reluctant to break the thing.
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I think for sure he was! It's too creepy and relevant not to be. Mr. Gaiman, never stop being so cool. <3
YAY PRESENTS!
p.s. I love making wax seals more than anything. Some days, I just sit around at my desk pouring wax and stamping it for no reason. It's a condition.
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Speaking of Gaiman knowing everything worth knowing, in Latin reading group we were reading a poem by Propertius, and it was talking about "those with the trick of drawing down the moon". And the prof was like, "Does anyone know what this refers to?" And then I remembered Thessaly in "A Game of You", and was all, "hey it's THESSALIAN WITCHES, innit?" And lo, so it was.
So yes. Everything worth knowing.
And hast thou slain the Reeky Many-headed Customs Beast? Forsooth, but th'art entitled to stamp waxy bits to thy heart's content, I wot.
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Your linguistics put me in a joyous froth. Also, I agree entirely. Also yes. Snicker snack.
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These are so well done. Did you use references from certain scenes? You are so good with realism and gestures.
The hero is always a bit of a twit, it seems XD
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Heh, yes, I used references - I'm not THAT good. I drew these while watching the movie, actually, pausing the screen every so often.
Ah, perhaps I am being unfair - perhaps it wasn't so much his wild swoony histrionics as his knickerbockers.
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The pants made him a lot less easy to take serious. I really love the sketches of Joh, and that last one of Rotwang really made me smile. The different Maria's are very easy to tell apart, yet still look like the same person. Blah Blah Blah, nothing you don't know already.
-Seethe
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No way, you're still pretty good. Even with references, I have a hard time capturing that "naturalness" of people. Realism is difficult for me.
I love the word "knickerbocker".
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ooh ooh ooh! favourite word of the day:
SYLLABUB.
Also: BROBDINGNAGIAN.
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you must be joking.
...
*consults dictionary*
*cracks up*
SESQUIPEDALIAN!
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Oh god. I don't even...fuck that.
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