Aloysius prepares to enter his machine
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Although Aloysius’s machine is much smaller, in its potential man-eating dangerousness it somehow makes me think of the giant machines of the Lower City in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, that locus classicus of mad science.
Image found here, in a cool essay about Brigitte Helm and Metropolis. Check out some of its amazing animated gifs.
In the meantime, take care, Aloysius!
I certainly hope you were able to see the newest restoration of Metropolis that was released last year. It was magnificent! I also got to see it in a real theater, the way it was meant to be seen. They only seem to lack about 5 minutes of the original and cover the plot with intertitles.