{"id":159420,"date":"2023-03-03T07:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/rotwangs-creation-a-tribute-to-metropolis"},"modified":"2023-03-03T07:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:23:25","slug":"rotwangs-creation-a-tribute-to-metropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/rotwangs-creation-a-tribute-to-metropolis","title":{"rendered":"Rotwang\u2019s Creation: a tribute to Metropolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rotwang&#039;s Creation: a tribute to Metropolis\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qPdwZXrjKDI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My music score for Rotwang\u2019s robot in the silent German expressionist film METROPOLIS by Fritz Lang. 1927.<\/p>\n<p>This film had a major influence on me, but that would come later. When I saw it for the first time I was 9 years old. Little did I know, this scene in particular would haunt me to this day.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to convey the feelings I had as a child, with this composition I call \u201cPhantasmaglorious\u201d; meaning frightening and darkly beautiful. A fitting tribute to Fritz Lang\u2019s masterwork, Alfred Abel as Joh Fredersen, the Master of Metropolis and Rudolf Klein-Rogge as C. A. Rotwang the mad scientist who creates the spectre of my childhood nightmeres.<\/p>\n<p>This movie is the definition of sublime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My music score for Rotwang\u2019s robot in the silent German expressionist film METROPOLIS by Fritz Lang. 1927. This film had a major influence on me, but that would come later. When I saw it for the first time I was 9 years old. Little did I know, this scene in particular would haunt me to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}