Sci FI fans rejoice, the HOLY GRAIL has been discovered! :o HOLY MOLY, Indiana Jones step aside! for Sci Fi film buffs this is likely the biggest story of the year! Metropolis Found! Metropolis Found 2 One of the greatest find in films has been made in Argentina, an original 16mm negative of Fritz Langs silent 1927 masterpiece METROPOLIS, has been discovered sitting in a museum library.
This is one of the most important films of the 20th century! This version contains the long lost and long thought gone forever MISSING 20 minutes of the original premier version and unseen for 80 YEARS! This movie has a long and sad history. The film when first released was ahead of its time, and the versions released in America were re-edited (butchered is the most common term) and almost cut in half, and for most of its history these shortened bastardized version was the only version available to film buffs. Even as it was, this movie was a giant influence on just about every sci fi movie made afterwords (think Blade Runner, Star Wars, Matrix) The original German negatives and were lost in WW2 when the UFA studios were struck by stray bombs. The first attempt to “restore” the film came in 1984 when Giorgio Moroder attempted to reconstruct the film using what was known to exist to that date, including a few minutes new footage found in Europe, still images that survived, and story boards that fill in the missing footage, he then used the original screenplay to reconstruct the film, added color tinting and an outstanding rock-based soundtrack, the movie as premiered was for film buffs as important a revelation as the Directors cut of Blade Runner, or the original 1954 Gojirra, we finally got a glimps of Langs original vision, and many liked what they saw! this is still a favorite version for me. More recently what many considered the definitive version of the film was released by Kino FIlms, which included newly discovered footage found in former Soviet Easern Europe, and also included for the first time the MAGNIFICENT 1927 full orchestral musical score used at the films premier. This brought the film time up to 110 minutes, up 20 minutes from Moroders 90 minute version, but still short of the 2+ hour version Lang premiered in 1927, this lost footage will finally bring a long thought lost masterpiece back to its original form. Can you tell I’m stoked by this news :lol:
But it does have C3PO’s mom in it
