I Actually Stayed Up Very Late This Morning To Rewatch Temple Of Doom.
https://www.tmz.com/2025/03/31/harrison-ford-pda-wife-calista-flockhart-subway-new-york-city/ Specifically for a Metropolis analysis. I'd forgotten how deep the influences run. The mine where the children are mining the Sankara Stones is blatantly Mother Mary's catacombs Temple. In Metropolis Rotwang claims to have lost his hand creating Machine Man. Something illustrated by him wearing a black glove over the supposedly lost hand. An early attempt at special effects. To convey his madness he does this weird, almost, mime where he draws attention to the gloved hand, paralysed as a claw. When Indiana Jones is forced to drink the blood potion, turning him into a Thugee automaton he does the same weird claw mime. Metropolis is a tale of two cities. However those two cities can really be divided into for modules; the catacombs, the worker's dormatories, the machine module and the Surface city. Obviously Metropolis is a vertical city. A metaphor for a class-divided hierarchical ...