Marco Polo Perez HON 255

           Metropolis  is an avant-garde movie that addresses several themes such as slavery, revolution, hierarchy, ethics surrounding machinery and robotics and marginalization. After doing some research on Fritz Lang, who was a pioneer of German Expressionism, he was inspired in the city of New York when he had visited it in 1924, describing it as a city of the future (which was mainly due to the presence of the skyscrapers). Fritz Lang was an architect, which gave him an advantage when designing his mesmerizing sets, such as the ones we see when watching Metropolis .       During the period the movie was shot, both Mexico and Russia were marked by their respective revolutions: The Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) and the Russian Revolution (1917). In 1917, specifically during the Mexican Revolution, a new constitution was brought where they addressed land reforms, labor rights and the separation of the church and state, which...

       Hi there! I´m Marco Polo Perez, I´m a Spanish Undergraduate student currently enrolled in the Honors Program while pursuing a double degree in Writing and Fild and Media Arts at UT. I was raised in Canary Islands, Ghana and Cabo Verde while studying in French schools for most of the time in West Africa. During my last years in high school in Ghana, I pursued graduation by specializing in both Chemistry and Biology with a minor in Mathematics. It was only during the ending months of this stressful period of my life (when COVID occurred), that I discovered my passion in Writing, since I wrote every fictional story that came from my creative mind during each break (most of the stories' plots back when I started were military, but now I like to experiment with nonfiction, fantasy, western, etc.).       Thanks to my experience in living in other countries than my beloved Spain, I have the privilege to currently speak five different languages (Sp...