A little bragging...

Just for fun:
Does anyone know the character in my avatar picture?
I'm pretty proud of it :-D

No idea.

Ein Hammer, from Burning Man 2010???

Nope very wrong :-)
Think more like 1927 :-)

Its Rotwang from Metropolis of course.

Yay he's got it :-) The archetype of all crazy scientists and the first one with a robot hand :-)

Google image search failed me.

try youtube :-)

I feel a bit bit guilty that I've never had the patience to sit through the whole 3 hours and 30 minutes of the full version

There's a full version? I thought that the complete version burnt up in a fire or something.

According to wikipedia :

"In 2008 a damaged print of Lang's original cut of the film was found in a museum in Argentina. After a long restoration process, the film was 95% restored and shown on large screens in Berlin and Frankfurt simultaneously on 12 February 2010.

I've seen a 90 minute version many years ago.

Gotcha

This was news to me also. I assume Wikipedia is accurate on this point, but I must admit, I didn't know that the original version had been cut-up, lost, re-found and restored.

Yeah I'd known about that, the refinding and remastering wasn't something I'd heard of.

It is well worth watching. I love the acting of the Maria character. She has the whole Jackyll and Hyde thing down with just adding a little eyeliner :-D And Rotwang of course is great, too. I thing there are some wonderful creepy scenes that still work although the movie is that old.
I was really sad to read that the american version was heavily cut to the point some important story aspects got lost.
For example the reason Rotwang went crazy in the first place... And because of the communist scare back then other scenes got lost.

I remember watching this. A real classic! :-)

Even a quick look at metropolis gives you an idea of just how influential a film it was. Many of the film cliches for science fiction started in this film and still exist today, even if they have been filtered and altered through more modern film.

So many good films came out of this period in Germany: "M", Nosferatu, All Quiet on the Western Front too name a few of my favorites.

By the way, if you've never seen the 1930 version of All Quiet on the Western Front, you can watch it and see almost every modern technique for war films used for the first time. An amazing film.

The amazing battle scene