suicide hotline

May 4, 2007 6:11 PM

Can anyone identify the films used in this clip and this clip?
posted by vronsky to media & arts (8 comments total)

the first one looks like a clip from "Metropolis."
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 6:21 PM on May 4, 2007

Seconding Metropolis.
posted by mudpuppie at 6:22 PM on May 4, 2007

The first clip is from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", I believe. There's a Tower of Babel sequence in the movie and that's what that is from.

I've seen the second clip before, but can't tell you the exact movie. Definitely European, though. I think it's a telling of some Grimm's fairy tales or something.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:25 PM on May 4, 2007

I believe the second is Frogland, or Les Grenouilles Qui Demandent un Roi.
posted by iconomy at 6:31 PM on May 4, 2007

Seconding iconomy.
posted by Abiezer at 6:36 PM on May 4, 2007

Wow, y'all are brilliant. For extra credit can anyone identify the voice on the phone? Now that would be amazing.
posted by vronsky at 7:55 PM on May 4, 2007

According to this, it's William Burroughs. And this says "The movie's soundtrack pairs Taylor's instrumentals with dialogue by Jeffrey Wright and William Burroughs, who played Basquiat and the hotline operator." There are a few Burroughs videos at YouTube and it does sound very much like him.
posted by iconomy at 8:32 PM on May 4, 2007

Bows before iconomy. Thanks. Did anyone else notice the samo crown on the stork, when he was eating the frog?
posted by vronsky at 9:36 PM on May 4, 2007