Metropolis (feat. soundtrack by King Toad)
So, I always liked the bits I saw from this old silent (now public domain) film. But, my attention span being what it is, I never had the discipline to watch the over-90-minutes of silence all in a row. The solution? I made a big long King Toad “best-of” compilation to serve as the Metropolis soundtrack &: voila! an artsy old film I can sit through. Sounds self-satisfied I know, but there it is. King Toad makes everything better! Anyway, I like this movie it turns out; it’s perty kewl.! I just don’t like the silence.
(P.S. I guess there are prints of this film that are 2 hours or more, and I bet some bits would make more sense with the added scenes, but for now I’ll have to be content with my 93 minute version.)
Aprille said,
November 11th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
One time I saw this live performance thing of Buster Keaton silent films with live accompaniment by a jazz-ish trio (I think it was keyboards, saxophone, and guitar maybe). Anyway, it was really good and kind of reminded me of this.
Also, hearing King Toad songs recontextualized (such as “What’s Best”) makes me miss The Stabbiest Mexican.
LD said,
November 14th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Cool idea. I could never got through the whole movie either for the same reason. Thanks for sharing :)
Um said,
November 19th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Um. We saw your Public TV hack, and it’s going on Youtube. Congrats.
kingtoad said,
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 am
I don’t know what that means, but thank you.