Thursday, October 31, 2013

Metropolis Influence  

Metropolis has been very influential from film to music video. There are two videos that actual directly derive from Metropolis. The most blatant examples are Madonna's Express Yourself video and Queen's Radio Ga Ga. Madonna's video was directed by David Fincher who was clearly influenced by Fritz Lang's vision:

 

Queen's Radio Ga Ga has portions of the video taken directly from Metropolis. The music producer Gorgio Moroder restored it in 1984 with modern music. Freddy Mercury was asked to participate. In exchange, Queen were granted the rights to use the movie in the video:


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  1. UnknownNovember 3, 2013 at 5:02 AM

    Very cool and good find. No denying that Madonna video. One of the scenes in Metropolis also reminded me of the Like A Virgin Madonna video where she is dancing and ravished by men. The steps are also in that one.

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