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Metropolis " Gabriele d'Annunzio's revelations ofThis city of the future encompasses two worlds: that of the hedonistic ruling class and that of a segregated subculture, toilers in a mechanized underworld who labor to provide the rich with their pleasures. When a charismatic leader arises, she seeks a savior to unite the disparate social orders. "Between the brain that plans and the hands that build," she declares, "there must be a mediatorthe heart." Thea von Harbou, creator of the screenplay for