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From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Metropolis (nothing *TO* spoil)
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Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 10:15:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 31 10:15:15 1984
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It's true that Moroder has done the film-going public a pretty great
favour by working so hard to restore a semi-full version of the 
original (it will be interesting to see what I *haven't* seen in the film),
but the attempt to make an "upbeat" score (you call Bonnie Tyler upbeat?
Jon Anderson? Pat Benatarrh?) is a pretty ridiculous move. The original
score-the first electronic score for a film, incidentally-since the director's
notion was to make as revolutionary (literally, I guess....) *sounding*
film as the one you see-is interesting in its own right. I would have
gone so far as to say that the original soundtrack was a "part" of the
film.

I can only hope that the hopped-up MTV version brings a few people into
the theatre to see it than might otherwise come. It is (given the filmic
conventions of the modern day) a bit heavy-handed to the modern eye, but
a pretty brilliant bit of work. 

See it.
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