{"id":162,"date":"2002-02-04T14:53:46","date_gmt":"2002-02-04T19:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/02\/04\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-23T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T23:00:26","slug":"metropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/02\/04\/metropolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>This weekend I saw Metropolis (the anime) (subtitled).  It was.. mm.. interesting.  But I don&#8217;t think it was more than that.  It was based on a manga by Osamu Tezuka, who was apparently inspired by the silent movie from the 20s.  The movie itself was helmed by Rintarou of X fame, and the death and destruction was quite as pretty in Metropolis as it was in that movie.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the basic premise is that some time in the future mankind is living in a world where robots do much of the dirty work and everyone, robots and people alike, are restricted to particular zones where they&#8217;re allowed to go.  There is tension between the humans and the robots, the humans feeling the robots are taking over their jobs and the robots apparently becoming sentient.  Into all of this throw an arrogant plotting businessman, an obsessive stalker-type, an innocent young boy, a smarter-than-he-looks detective, a robot who doesn&#8217;t know she&#8217;s a robot, and a large quantity of downtrodden masses.  Mix well and then explode things.  The plot was predictable in the extreme.  The saving graces were the animation &#8212; lovely &#8212; and the soundtrack, which was priceless.  The music was good, but the choices of when to play the music and what mood to set were better.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have typically done nothing this weekend.  It seems like I constantly complain that I&#8217;ve done nothing, so one might wonder when it is that I do anything at all.  I often wonder that myself.  Things usually do get done eventually, though. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I saw Metropolis (the anime) (subtitled). It was.. mm.. interesting. But I don&#8217;t think it was more than that. It was based on a manga by Osamu Tezuka, who was apparently inspired by the silent movie from the 20s. The movie itself was helmed by Rintarou of X fame, and the death and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}