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So many years ago I saw the anime version of metropolis. The one done by the creator of AKIRA and from the same company in Japan that made Neon Genesis Evangelion. It was quite amazing. Than, today after finishing the bojack horseman series which was pretty funny, I was browsing other show to watch and saw the Metropolis original silent picture on the screen and decided to see if they matched up in anyway.

I mean for being a German made silent picture, it was quite fascinating for a older scifi film set in the future with really really horrible acting ( by today's standards), hilarious chase scenes with sped up running that couldn't be natural no matter how much you try to convince anyone, and terrible special effects.(( again just saying by today's standards)).

if you haven't seen either stop here this is your chance to avoid spoilers!
So here's how the two films differ:

Anime:
1. The Villian Duke red has no son but rescued Rock to be part of the Mardukes his very own private police force to keep the statue quo.
2. Regards duke red as father and is soul bound to do everything his father wishes and that his father will always need him.
3. The upper class and political figures live is the Ziggarrat. A build with many secrets.
4. The heroes enter the city of metropolis visiting from Japan. Shinsaku is uncle to Kenichi and detective for the Japanese government. Kenichi is brought along to assist his uncle in search of a scientist who has been conducting experiments envolving human organs.
5. Duke red requests the mad scientist to bring back he belated daughter Tima (his only child) back to life but as the key component to completing the Ziggarrat. The mad scientist wants to complete Tima and take her away.
6. Rock thinks this robot will take his fathers love from him.
7. humans live in luxury while robot workers work to maintain and as a basic slave force.
8. Tima starts out acting like a new born learning to talk and watching the interactions of others, by the middle forms tight bounds and friendship with Kenichi, toward the build up of drama confesses to mistaking Kenichi as her father.
9. Rock makes several attempts on Tima's life.
10. Tima once on the throne of the Ziggarrat has realized the truth about herself and decided that humans need to pay the price for abusing robot kind. As a full revolt by all robots begins she declares that all the worlds weapons will be at her disposal and she plans the complete irradication of all man kind.
((That's where all stop))

Metropolis (1929)
1. Our hero is the son of Jon Freddersen appropriately named Fredder. (I know right?)
2. The opening scene takes place in the garden of son's. An Eden to entertain the childeren of the upper class. Fredder is playing with the girls choosen to entertain him when the doors to the garden open to a woman of humble means surrounded by a large number of kids the worker's city and she speaks saying " these are your brothers."
3. Chasing after the mysterious women after she leaves see something eye opening. Huge machines that keep the city running and every lower class worker has a part to play and as he watches a worker fail to keep up with his task and as a result witnesses a huge explosion. He hops in a car and goes to THE NEW TOWER OF BABEL.
4. The New Tower Of Babel houses the upper class and his Father Jon Freddersen. Who runs all of metropolis.
5. The main Plot revolves on the abuse of Worker's and the people that take for granted their continuing hardwork and sacrifices.
6. The strange women is revealed to be a motivator of the workers named Maria. Who believes and tells the long suffering workers that " the mediator of the head and hands must be the heart, and that one day a mediator will come forth to bring their message to the people above."
7. Jon Freddersen visit his old rival for his wife's love and finds the old man is stuck in the past wishing he and her had gotten together. In fact he is so lost to his missing love he shows Jon the robot he built to replace her and with time he will have the MACHINE MAN looking like his long lost love.
8. After finding Maria, Fredder vows to help bring the worker's strife to the surface and help them with the help of his 2 friends. But after Maria is captured and used as a template for the machine man Jon Freddersen orders the machine Maria to destroy the Real Maria's promises and lead the workers to their own down fall.
9. The mad man tricks Jon because he gave the machine orders to destroy everything that Jon created and his son.
10. The robot maria incite the worker's revolt into madness. Every worker man and woman head to the service to destroy the machine killing them. As they leave they forgot their kids. While robot Maria continues to corrupt the upper class into a sinful indulging cycle that will bring down the upper class.
(( this is where I stop))


So All in all Watch the 1929 metropolis first and than watch the Anime it makes so much more sense reference wise. I mean for an early concept of Science Fiction stories this is amazingly advanced and well thought by 1929 German filming.

Lend me your thoughts and recommend me some new anime or movies to watch.