Metropolis is the classic silent-movie industrial dystopia from 1927. It portrays a futuristic city comprising a two-tier society of haves and have-nots who are kept unaware of each other's existence.
Gustav Frohlich as Freder in Metropolis: "I wanted to look into the faces of the people whose little children are my brothers, my sisters... Your magnificent city, Father - and you the brain of this city - and all of us in the city's light... And where are the people, father, whose hands built your city ---?"
Brigitte Helm as Maria in Metropolis: "HEAD and HANDS need a mediator! The mediator between HEAD and HANDS must be the HEART!!"
Alfred Abel as Joh Fredersen in Metropolis: "Beginning today, I wish to be kept informed of every step taken by my son."
- Movie
- Metropolis
- Year
- 1927
- Character
- Maria
- Actor
- Brigitte Helm
Maria is a Christian missionary who brings a message of peace and hope to the downtrodden underclass of Metropolis.
Metropolis – Maria Quotes
Maria takes the children of the workers from the city, and shows them the Eternal Gardens and their mysterious inhabitants:
Maria: Look! These are your brothers!…Look- – ! These are your brothers!
Maria preaches to the workers:
Maria: Today I will tell you the legend of THE TOWER OF BABEL…(Flashback) Come let us build us a tower whose top may reach unto the stars! And on top of the tower, we will write the words: Great is the world and its Creator! And great is Man! …but the minds that had conceived the Tower of Babel could not build it. The task was too great. So they hired hands for wages.
(Streams and columns of naked, bald and chained slaves surge toward the tower from five directions)
Maria: But the hands that built the Tower of Babel knew nothing of the dream of the brain that had conceived it. BABEL.
(Thousands of slaves labor to move large slabs of rock – the words BABEL begin dripping blood)
Maria: One man’s hymns of praise became other men’s curses. People spoke the same language, but could not understand each other.
(Maria clutching her left breast)
Maria: HEAD and HANDS need a mediator! THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN HEAD AND HANDS MUST BE THE HEART!
Maria spots Freder in the background:
Maria: Oh mediator, have you finally come?
Freder: You called me — here I am!
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Cast and Characters
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Gustav Frohlich as Freder in Metropolis: "I wanted to look into the faces of the people whose little children are my brothers, my sisters... Your magnificent city, Father - and you the brain of this city - and all of us in the city's light... And where are the people, father, whose hands built your city ---?"
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Heinrich George as Grot in Metropolis: "Where are your children??! The city lies underwater, the shafts are completely flooded -!! Who told you to attack the machines, you idiots? Without them you'll all die!!"
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Alfred Abel as Joh Fredersen in Metropolis: "Beginning today, I wish to be kept informed of every step taken by my son."
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Theodore Loos as Josaphat in Metropolis: "I put on this disguise to escape from the Thin Man. But for ten days, your father's spy has been making even the workers' city risky..."
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Brigitte Helm as Machine-Man Maria in Metropolis: "You know that I have always spoken of peace...but your mediator has not come... You have waited long enough! Your time has come -! Who is the living food for the machines in Metropolis!? Who lubricates the machine joints with their own blood?! Who feeds the machines with their own flesh?! Let the machines starve, you fools! Let them die! Kill them - the machines!!"
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Brigitte Helm as Maria in Metropolis: "HEAD and HANDS need a mediator! The mediator between HEAD and HANDS must be the HEART!!"
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Rotwang in Metropolis: "Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the man of the future, the Machine-Man? ! Give me another 24 hours - and no one, Joh Fredersen, no one will be able to tell a Machine-Man from a mortal! The woman is mine, Joh Fredersen! The son of Hel was yours!"
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Richard Burton as O'Brien in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."
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Lee Evans as Fog in The Fifth Element: "We're sending somebody in to negotiate!"
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Paul Goddard as Agent Brown in The Matrix: "Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions."
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Alfred Abel as Joh Fredersen in Metropolis: "Beginning today, I wish to be kept informed of every step taken by my son."
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Gary Oldman as Commissioner Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight Rises: "I see a beautiful city and brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
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Gary Oldman as Emanuel Zorg in The Fifth Element: "You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life."
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Alan Arkin as Detective Hugo in Gattaca: "Hello everyone, nice to see you, I am your detective for the evening. Please don't leave the premises. I said please don't leave the premises. Am I speaking in some kind of strange foreign language?"
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