... good) mediates between the brains or the head (the immoral Joh, and the other "Masters of Metropolis") and the hands (the workers, living below ground in the workers city). Metropolis also seems to borrow from other sources, some biblical, and others literary. As in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, artificial life is created by a "mad" scientist (Rotwang) experimenting with electricity in a gothic setting. Although the ... city is modern, the scientist lives in an old house in the city, and his laboratory is deep beneath the modern city, down among the catacombs of the ancient city. In the ...

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