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Culture Night 2024 @ Enfield Community Hall

Fri, 20 Sept

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Cloona

EDG Arts- Presents... Drive In Cinema Echo Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1927)

Culture Night 2024 @ Enfield Community Hall
Culture Night 2024 @ Enfield Community Hall

Time & Location

20 Sept 2024, 19:00 – 22:00

Cloona, Main St, Cloona, Co. Meath, Ireland

About the Event

EDG Arts- Presents

Drive In Cinema Echo

Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1927)

Curation by Frank Hughes, Marcus Moore, Sean Gromail.

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) has had a profound influence on both literature and cinema. In film, its portrayal of dystopian futuristic cities and class struggles inspired movies like Blade Runner (1982), which echoed its depiction of a futuristic, stratified society and advanced technology. The robotic character Maria directly influenced the design of iconic cinematic robots, such as C-3PO in Star Wars (1977), while dystopian films like The Fifth Element (1997) and Elysium (2013) reflect Metropolis' vision of societal divides.

In literature, Metropolis' influence is evident in George Orwell’s 1984 (1949), where themes of class oppression and totalitarian control mirror those in Lang’s film. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) similarly explores a future society dominated by technology. Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), later adapted into…

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