Original Matrix - Steeper than Blade Runner.

Version of Giorgio Moroder.

In 1927, the director Fritz Lang, based on the novel by his wife and co-author of the Thea von Harbow script, scaled a sci-fi movie that became cultic and had a significant impact on the development of film art in general.

In 1984, the Italian composer Giorgio Moroder, who settled in Hollywood for a long time, assembled a new restored version of Metropolis. He wrote new music for the film and drew such famous performers as Freddie Mercury, John Anderson, Pat Banatar and Bonnie Tyler to work on the music.

Before getting acquainted with the film, you are asking yourself - what version of the film to watch? Although in fact I'm cunning, I had no choice between Gottfried Hooppertz and the Queen band, but immediately stopped at the last one, on the version of Giorgio Moroder. Do not think of a prude and a Puritan, but the clip-rock'n'roll music is closer to me than the orchestral music. Well, I'm 40 years old, do you listen to the orchestras - give me Bonnie Tyler, yes Pat Banatar!)

And, it is worth noting that the tracks are not chosen anyhow, but very cohesively and consistently with respect to the video sequence of the tape. Here we see in one of the first scenes of the film the meeting of the main character with the girl Maria, that is, forgive, with the MOST BEAUTIFUL girl Maria and a crowd of little kids around her. At this point, the song "Here's my heart" begins to play Pat Benatar. It's just an amazing combination, I tell you. This is by no means two scenes of such a successful merging of the soundtrack with the video series. Throughout the film, more precisely the film in the version of Giorgio Moroder, we see such a successful combination of one with another.

Retell storyline is superfluous - you'll see everything yourself, and you just have to see it. I will just say that Metropolis Fritz Lang is a thriller, and a love story, and a drama about the conflict of human morality and the desire to create, and a fascinating anti-utopia.

One of those films that strike the imagination. Definitely look more than once and not once listen to the soundtrack to this movie.

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