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Right. Must collapse, now, and wait for the burns to stop aching. Heh. Night, all.

Meme thing, before I go, though I won't catch it until tomorrow. A simple invitation:

Tell me what you think of me, whatever that may be. Heh.

Sanctuary and Fritz Lang's Metropolis

Running around the place at the minute, vaguely panicking. Never mind. Have some really random fly-by thoughts:

I've been watching snippets of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (which I adore, by the by - silent movies have a particular ... something ... and this proto-type of sci-fi film was always going to find a soft spot in my heart). And ...

There's a section in the Irish Leaving Cert Exam for English, where you're tasked to compare and contrast three texts on certain themes, genre conventions, etc. And thinking about that, and thinking about Metropolis, and idly browsing Sanctuary on TV Tropes ... got me to thinking. Because apparently, aside from drawing huge inspiration from the Bible and the story of the Tower of Babel (which is interesting in a Sanctuary context anyway), apparently the film drew enough on Victorian melodramas and proto-sci-fi that HG Wells apparently complained that he was being plagarised. Which ... made me look at them, and that led to ...

The Five watching Metropolis. Or perhaps the remaining four of them, in 1927, watching Metropolis. Or later, so much later, because there are so many periods of their lives that echo with that film ...

( The Five and Metropolis )