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METROPOLIS was a cult sci-fi from 1929 by Fritz Lang. Metropolis, as word forms a kind of origin of "metro", as a public transport. Metropolis also means a capital or very important city. Metropolis is the name of an Alstom metro car that Budapest Public Transport utilizes for line 4 (and 2).This is a detail of Kálvin tér station of sparkling new Budapest Metro Line 4. The architecture is rather futuristic and even distopic. The Clock was a key feature of Fritz Lang's film...
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Comments: 6
I need to watch that movie again!
It's odd seeing how creative visions of the future become the present... I think you captured that well here!
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Oh, really, this is very strange, amazing and unnerving to see as the future of the past turns into something completely different. Some remarkable works like 1984 and 2001: A Space Odyssey show unexpected mirrors to us... In the 80s we were almost sure that we will use personal flying transport systems (aircrafts, flying cars, maglev people movers etc) in the 2000s but knew nothing about mobile phones. In the early 90s nobody considered the internet but some works prefaced a central organizing and controlling system (like the Big Brother, but not only that). Some theorists imagined world peace, others sketched robot warriors like Terminator films. But noone saw drones and co-operative weapon systems. I could continue this line for a pretty long time... 
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I like this shot a lot. I don't like rating photos on a star scale, so I try to avoid the Critique feature. The picture does have a bleak feeling to it. I haven't seen the movie, but I like the shot. The clock is a perfect element!
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Well, unfortunately I didn't see the the film but short parts of it; and met a good amount of stills here and there. (Perhaps you remember the Radio Ga Ga clip of The Queen—as Freddie Mercury "wrestling" with a clock, that is a reprise to Metropolis, too.) Most of these images were used the exceptional visual world and strong mechanized, "bleak" impact. The clock motif is a ercurring feature, one of most memorable items. What I saw from the film, was beautifully toned, remarkably futuristic/constructivist imagery and when I spotted this detail (it was easy, it was front of the other escalator) I instantly knew what I want to make out of it, and it must be in Lang's atmosphere...
As far as I know, the Metropolis is already available on Youtube and its copyright already expired so I try to watch it in the near future...
Thanks for your comment!
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er... I was wrong. Though the original copyright expired, it was restored in U.S. in 1998. It sounds a bit silly for me, but legal issues often do.
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Thanks for the info! Yes, it's still under copyright in the US.
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