Metropolis/The Monster Walks

Here's some catching up. I watched Metropolis last night and it was pretty awesome of course. With the workers toiling below the Earth's surface and the rich thinkers living high in the sky it's a plot that's been done many times since. You can definitely see all that this film has influenced. The model art deco city was beautiful, I loved the iconic imagery, and the special effects were fantastic.

I watched The Monster Walks tonight. It was not as classic. It was a cute really short (at one hour) early talkie. Its a plot we all know. A rich scientist has just died. His daughter and her fiance come over for the reading of the will. Her handicapped uncle is there with their servants. All the fortune gets left to the daughter... and then the deaths start. At first it is believed to be the scientist's ape. But then of course people have secret intentions, blah, blah, blah you can figure it out. Of course it did feature the strong man fiance who is a doctor playing detective most of time. Don't worry dear I'll save you, here's something for your nerves because you are frail, because you are a woman. I'm probably just inferring all that. Another stereotype: the couple's African American driver. Everything he said was just terribly racist. And seriously, I don't think it was a coincidence that they cut between him and the ape as often as they did.

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