Movies as Art

In my post "What is Art" I explored the subject of art. One anthropologist whom I knew spent years researching food as art. When you have seen presentations of food at your favorite cooks house or restaurant, you have no doubt that its preparation and presentation is an art and is art itself.

I suppose that's where still-life art got its start. I can just picture someone sitting around the table and as the food is brought out and placed before them, the sight was just so wonderful that they grabbed their canvas and brush and recaptured the beauty of it all. I have done the same thing with my camera on some special occasions, haven't you?

Which brings me to another subject. Movies as art. I mean it's not just a matter of pointing and shooting your video camera to create a masterpiece. Just as with food, preparation and forethought are involved.

Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Steven Spielberg all could be considered to be true visual artists with their moving canvas.

Watch this 2001 Japanese animated version of Metropolis (My all time favorite 1927 movie by Fritz Lang) It has 11 episodes. Episode 10 has the sound track disabled due to a copyright dispute but you can look at it for continuity of the story:http://www.youtube,com/watch?v=kOeCghkVfqk

Then after watching that version, please, please see the original Metropolis with the updated music posted by mrbenjaminspeed, a soundtrack specialist:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YihinU2tdhA

This one has 25 episodes and after episode 3 it becomes a little difficult to find the following episodes. I finally resorted to putting "Metropolis part 4 of 25" in the search box, part 5 of 25 and so forth until I completed the whole movie.