The Living City: Change and the Urban Environment, Friday, Period 3

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"It's a movie day today," Bruce said. "We'll be watching Megalopolis, a futuristic look at cities and class divide from 1927. In some ways, it was prescient about the issues of life in cities. In other ways - the robots - it's a little over the top."

"We'll be back with a regular lecture next week."

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Listen to the Lecture / Watch the Movie

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Plot Summary: (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ql_6)

Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen. One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children who quickly disappear. Trying to follow her, he, oblivious to such, is horrified to find an underground world of workers, apparently who run the machinery which keeps the above ground Utopian world functioning. One of the few people above ground who knows about the world below is Freder's father, Joh Fredersen, who is the founder and master of Metropolis. Freder learns that the woman is Maria, who espouses the need to join the "hands" - the workers - to the "head" - those in power above - by a mediator or the "heart". Freder wants to help the plight of the workers in the want for a better life. But when Joh learns of what Maria is espousing and that Freder is joining their cause, Joh, with the assistance of an old colleague and now nemesis named Rotwang, an inventor, works toward quashing a supposed uprising, with Maria as the center of their plan. However, Joh is unaware that Rotwang has his own agenda. But if any of these plans includes the shut down of the machines, total anarchy could break loose both above ground and below.

Re: Listen to the Lecture / Watch the Movie

[stacyexperiment]

Gwen was all about movie days. Normally that'd mean maybe she could nap, but she was actually kind of curious about the movie, so it looked like she'd be watching it for once.

Re: Listen to the Lecture / Watch the Movie

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four might have dozed off once or twice, but he felt incredibly guilty about it.

Re: Listen to the Lecture / Watch the Movie

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy was still tired from the drill. She made a mental note to torrent the movie and watch it later on her laptop.

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[myownface]

Oh, shit. This was a classic. Tired after the fire drill last night or not, Sparkle was watching this one in rapt attention.

The robots weren't that over the top. But then, maybe Sparkle had just been spending too much time in Atton's galaxy lately and he was getting used to it.