A 2001 anime film set in a futuristic mega-city delivers a visually striking, jazzy, and strange conclusion featuring a dramatic explosion synchronized with Ray Charles’ “I Can’t Stop Loving You.” The story centers on a boy detective, a potentially world-ending conspiracy, and an anime robot girl. The film is loosely based on Osamu Tezuka’s 1949 manga, which was inspired by a single image of the Maschinenmensch rather than direct viewing of the 1927 film. The manga shares a futuristic city and a robot adopting a female form, but focuses on creating an artificial human and an outlandish plot to destroy the world. The anime streamlines and alters the manga while incorporating additional elements from the silent film, yet remains distinct in themes and narrative direction.
"When Tezuka published the manga in 1949, he claimed that he had never seen the film, only a single image of the iconic robot (the Maschinenmensch) in a magazine. The resulting comic has some similarities with the ostensible source material in that it's about a futuristic mega-city and features a robot who adopts a female form, but while the German Expressionist film is all about labor and class, the manga is about the creation of an artificial human and an outlandish, very sci-fi plot to destroy the world."
"It's not quite accurate to call the 2001 anime a remake of the 1927 movie. When Tezuka published the manga in 1949, he claimed that he had never seen the film, only a single image of the iconic robot (the Maschinenmensch) in a magazine. The resulting comic has some similarities with the ostensible source material in that it's about a futuristic mega-city and features a robot who adopts a female form, but while the German Expressionist film is all about labor and class, the manga is about the creation of an artificial human and an outlandish, very sci-fi plot to destroy the world."
"The movie, written by Akira writer-director Katsuhiro Otomo and helmed by mononymic director Rintaro, streamlines and alters a lot of the manga while incorporating more aspects of the silent film. Even so, they're quite different. Lang's Metropolis follows the privileged son of the dystopian city's elite as he undergoes a class awakening and attempts to uplift the workers. His"
"There's a stunning moment in Metropolis where the titular city explodes in the most glorious color you can imagine while "I Can't Stop Loving You" plays at full blast Ray Charles' performance of the crooner classic doesn't seem like a natural match with the action and yet it's an oddly perfect fit as the story of a boy detective, potentially world-ending conspiracy, and anime robot girl comes to its spectacular conclusion."
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