Friday 29 March 2013

Robot Maria by Simon Davis.

Fritz Lang's Metropolis is a masterpiece.
Considering the time it was made, 1927, its vision and design still stand out today. A bleak and doomed future in much the same way that Bladerunner was, and obviously a big influence on Ridley Scott's classic.
 And it had Maria, a robot who is transformed into a replica of a woman in order to bring chaos to a world on the edge of meltdown. It's a long film, certainly for the time, and quite a complex story considering the limitations of the film industry of the day.
The standout for me is the classic design of the robot.
Fabulous.
I first came across Simon Davis' work on the Sinister Dexter stories in the 2000AD and was intrigued to see how his water colour style would work on the Robot Maria ?
I was suitably impressed and happy with the end result.

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