Comments on: Metropolis posters http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/07/metropolis-posters/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:18:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/07/metropolis-posters/comment-page-1/#comment-48641 John Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:04:53 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1234#comment-48641 Hi Harry. The originals costs a fortune, as noted above, but a few places such as <a href="http://www.allposters.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Allposters</a> do reproductions if you search there. Hi Harry. The originals costs a fortune, as noted above, but a few places such as Allposters do reproductions if you search there.

]]> By: Harry Oulton http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/07/metropolis-posters/comment-page-1/#comment-48632 Harry Oulton Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:36:15 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1234#comment-48632 Can one buy these posters anywhere? Harry Can one buy these posters anywhere?

Harry

]]> By: Richard Sica http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/07/metropolis-posters/comment-page-1/#comment-33013 Richard Sica Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:35:44 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1234#comment-33013 Is it possible that not anyone seriously interested in film has seen this movie? It is one of the masterpieces of German Expressionism tilted left. A great allegory of the privileged rich living in luxury and sunshine at the expense of the working poor. The contrast between the life of splendor on the surface and the misery of the workers underground tending infernal machines is visually stunning. The posters always seem, to me, misleading as robot makes the movie seem to be an early work of science fiction rather then a political allegory. The wealthy will stop at nothing, even providing an android messiah to keep the working class dossal and distracted. Is this 2007?. I will say that the happy conclusion: heart-hand-brain looks like a failure of nerve. I would rather have seen the rich cut to pieces by the proletariat. Is it possible that not anyone seriously interested in film has seen this movie? It is one of the masterpieces of German Expressionism tilted left. A great allegory of the privileged rich living in luxury and sunshine at the expense of the working poor. The contrast between the life of splendor on the surface and the misery of the workers underground tending infernal machines is visually stunning. The posters always seem, to me, misleading as robot makes the movie seem to be an early work of science fiction rather then a political allegory. The wealthy will stop at nothing, even providing an android messiah to keep the working class dossal and distracted. Is this 2007?.
I will say that the happy conclusion: heart-hand-brain looks like a failure of nerve. I would rather have seen the rich cut to pieces by the proletariat.

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