Modernism came with the new era of technologies and new age machines to our world. At the time humanity split into two groups, the ones who approved of the new technologies and the other who didn’t support and were afraid of it. As an example, here is the classical Metropolis movie trailer which came out in 1927. Based on movie technologies it was made at the very beginning of movie making and there was still no sound or voice effects introduced, but the movie is flowing to beautiful musical pieces that interpret the events and actions, it also black and white as there was no colour introduced either. On the other hand based on movie effects this film was a real innovation at the time, it was even short in funds to be released as the production took a lot of capitals.
The film is based on a future prediction and the beginning of modern times, the machinery, skyscrapers and the future architecture. Looking deeper into the idea of the film it appears that at the time the feminists started to rise slowly which is portrayed as a female robot in the film. The fear of the machinery is also shown in the film which means that not everyone was ready for the new era and some were afraid of it, it is shown as an end of the Metropolis when everything is getting destroyed and the perfect world falls apart. There where arguments about this movie if it also touches some of the futurism, but the idea was denied because of the people broken down to middle and lower classes in the film.
Graphic Design A New History, Stephen F. Eskilson, pg. 227 German Expressionism, Laurence King
Film History, an introduction, Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell, pg. 110-113, McGraw Hill.
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