Whippet Angel wrote:I suppose it's just the novelty of it.
I'd like to think of it as just another "alternate cut", albeit one with color tints and 80's rock music.
Yup, I decided not to buy the restored Kino DVD when I heard about the new print that was discovered. I doubt I'll want to own more than one version of the film aside from Moroder's (just because it's so radically different). If I own a copy of the film, it might as well be the "Ultimate" restored version.
Moroder's version is also arguably
better--
We have this romanticized image of Metropolis as a "cool sci-fi" piece; we sit down and watch the pristine version, and get a sledgehammer-straightforward pre-Nazi pro-union PSA that looks like it was written by the Teamsters.
By giving it what basically amounts to a Broadway score (and I mean that as a compliment
), Moroder turned the story back into the "future Romeo & Juliet" love-conquers-all fable with cool buildings and robots that we remember. (For ex:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pRZBxceEBQ )
The last time TCM showed the restored version, I put my own tape on and switched back and forth, to experiment: The original was dry as dishwater, but the Moroder captured the "fairytale" mood of the story.
Watch the ending handshake-fadeout in the original Kino version and tell me whether there's any emotion there whatsoever, and then watch what Moroder could do with it by adding a slo-mo and having the love theme kick in on the end credits.
