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Question: suicide hotline

vronsky — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:11:35 -0800

Can anyone identify the films used in this clip and this clip?

By: potsmokinghippieoverlord

potsmokinghippieoverlord — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:21:56 -0800

the first one looks like a clip from "Metropolis."

By: mudpuppie

mudpuppie — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:22:39 -0800

Seconding Metropolis.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:25:04 -0800

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.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:31:32 -0800

I believe the second is Frogland, or Les Grenouilles Qui Demandent un Roi.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:36:51 -0800

Seconding iconomy.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:55:27 -0800

Wow, y'all are brilliant. For extra credit can anyone identify the voice on the phone? Now that would be amazing.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Fri, 04 May 2007 20:32:31 -0800

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.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Fri, 04 May 2007 21:36:39 -0800

Bows before iconomy. Thanks. Did anyone else notice the samo crown on the stork, when he was eating the frog?