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I've seen the movie with Mills' soundtrack at De Melkweg, Amsterdam. He cut the movie to fit his soundtrack, which reduced the lenght to a little over an hour. I've seen the original 2+ hour version as well.
Must say the original is too long for me, but Mills reduced it to an hour long video-clip. Too short to really impress. I really like his soundtrack, it does fit to the images real nice.
After the movie was shown, Mills did a Q&A with the audience, in which he explained why he made music for Metropolis. He and a group of (unnamed) Detroit techno-producers came together one day and discussed why non of them ever was asked to do a soundtrack for a movie. At the end, he was chosen to produce one for an existing movie. He choose Metropolis because it was the first science fiction movie and because he felt his music was "black and white, with different shades of grey" as well... On my question if he wanted to produce music for big Hollywood motion pictures in the future (like a new Terminator movie) he just smiled and explained he was working on smaller, more experimental things...
Mills also told that the family of Fritz Lang were not amused by his soundtrack, and didn't gave him permission to release a VHS/DVD version with his music. He was allowed to show it in small theaters only on special occasions, and he wasn't allowed to charge money for viewings.
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Must say the original is too long for me, but Mills reduced it to an hour long video-clip. Too short to really impress. I really like his soundtrack, it does fit to the images real nice.
After the movie was shown, Mills did a Q&A with the audience, in which he explained why he made music for Metropolis. He and a group of (unnamed) Detroit techno-producers came together one day and discussed why non of them ever was asked to do a soundtrack for a movie. At the end, he was chosen to produce one for an existing movie. He choose Metropolis because it was the first science fiction movie and because he felt his music was "black and white, with different shades of grey" as well... On my question if he wanted to produce music for big Hollywood motion pictures in the future (like a new Terminator movie) he just smiled and explained he was working on smaller, more experimental things...
Mills also told that the family of Fritz Lang were not amused by his soundtrack, and didn't gave him permission to release a VHS/DVD version with his music. He was allowed to show it in small theaters only on special occasions, and he wasn't allowed to charge money for viewings.