QueenZone discussion #508518

dantango wrote: does anyone know where i can get the version of metropolis with love kill in the soundtrack?

John S Stuart wrote: "...I hate to admit that I like the Original version...just a TEENY bit more..bot only a Teeny bit." Arlene, you surprise me - of course the colour version is streets better and here's why: The colour version is the most complete version there is. Moroder has not collected all the known original existing versions, but re-created missing scenes through animation, photography and on-screen commentary. It is purposefully the closest version ever to Fritz Lang's original script, and by far the longest version by a mile. (Now I know that the B&W version "lasts" longer - but the colour version was speed corrected to match a rock score so runs at more frames per second than the original). Therefore, no matter what the purists may say, they can never add this restoritive material to their version. Also: All colourised versions come with th B&W version free. TRUE STORY time: A "purist" friend of mine slated the move without seeing it, so I invited him over one evening to view it. Before the movie, I turned down/off the colour so the film was in B&W. I also turned down the volume - so the film was also silent. (I told him I recorded it from FilmFour - a dedicted UK Cinema station. After he raved about this version, I then let him into my secret, and having no place to back down to, had to agree that the Moroder version was indeed the best available. So much for cinematic snobbery!

<b><font color = "crimson">ThomasQuinn wrote:

Arlene R. Weiss wrote: Actually, I don't know if the MOVIE version from the 1980's with the color tint and rock soundtrack (which I saw here in Maryland at our art cinema house when it premiered), is still in print. Reason being, it caught alot of flack from die hard film fans and die hard science fiction film fans of the original silent, black & white version with a full orchestra score from the 1920's, and also flack from film historians, critics, who said that it all but blasphemed the original version...which you CAN still get on DVD, I saw THAT yesterday in the Movie DVD section of Tower Records. By the way...I have seen BOTH versions...and while I LOVE both versions...I hate to admit that I like the Original version...just a TEENY bit more..bot only a Teeny bit. But the 80's version, I don''t know if it is still is print/available..at least here in the USA.

The main reason for the Moroder version being so hated is the fact that it's even more chopped down than the 'original'. Still, not all reels of the film have been recovered, so the (roughly) 130 minute version we have nowadays is still incomplete. Moroder's version was 81 minutes, while over 90 minutes were available at the time. And JSS: Moroder's version was not even CLOSE to Fritz Lang's script; he ommitted valuable scenes, and the complete thing looks chaotic.

Rien wrote: on my site there's still the video fragment of Love Kills, taken from the Metropolis movie. See Download, Video and scroll down.

<b><font color = "crimson">ThomasQuinn wrote:

Arlene R. Weiss wrote: I have not seen it yet, BUT there is NOW... ...a NEW Complete Restored DVD Director's cut of the black & white Metropolis with ALL edited scenes and outtakes FULLY RESTORED with the original symphony score, as Director Fritz Lang had ORIGINALLY intended, before the film was edited down even in the 1920's by the film studio's Producers who thought it too long and conceptual. (but then they were money counting IDIOTS!)

That's the version I have. It's still not 100% complete, as about 15-20 minutes of film hasn't been found yet.