Metropolis. Gottfried Huppertz

Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen (Gustav Fröhlich). One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children quickly disappear. Trying to follow her, he is horrified to find an underground world of workers who apparently run the machinery that keeps the Utopian world above ground functioning. One of the few people above ground who knows about the world below is Freder's father, John Fredersen (Alofred Abel), who is the founder and master of Metropolis. Freder learns that the woman is called Maria (Brigitte Helm).

Huppertz was born of the Romantic school and so fashioned his soundscape utilizing traditional leitmotifs for characters, settings and dramatic scenes. An astounding sixteen themes were written to support the film. The Metropolis Theme serves as the identity of the magnificent city and by extension the elite whom inhabit it. It offers a gorgeous refulgent major modal statement, which resounds with proud horns regale that offer a testament to its architectural magnificence and grandeur. The Eternal Garden Theme is also kindred to the Metropolis Theme and emotes as a gentle valzer gentile. It speaks to the privilege and idyllic life of its inhabitants.We immediately segue into the film with “Machines”, where we see a montage of massive machines, spinning gears and churning mechanisms powering Metropolis.