Lighting and rendering 2: Sub surface scattering
Film review - Metropolis (1927)
Fig 1 - Original Metropolis Poster Released in 1927 and directed by Fritz Lang, 'Metropolis' is one of the most influential films for modern Science-Fiction today, having used the biggest budget in German film making at the time. From the character and set design to the plot, many elements from this film can be spotted throughout a variety of modern films such as 'The Matrix' and 'Blade Runner'. 'Metropolis' is a film based on a divided city set in the distant future where both the working and upper class live separate lives in different parts of the city. For the upper class, they are provided with high skyscrapers, Eternal gardens, a district dedicated to entertainment, various methods of transport and many more, while the lower class are subjected to working continuously, enslaved below the city in machine halls and living in small, mundane buildings. Fig 2 - Machine halls Fig 3 - Metropolis Throughout the film, Lang...
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