Pat Benatar - Here's My Heart - Metropolis (Giorgio Moroder 1984) - Film Version

In the Italian site dedicated to Pat Benatar I couldnt leave out a space about Heres My Heart, the song from the motion picture soundtrack Metropolis(1984), fruit of the Italian Giorgio Moroder inspiration and the incomparabile Pat vocal beauty.
The Moroder virtuousness develops at an early stage inside a family of artists in the North of Italy, at Ortisei, in the mountainous Gardena Valley. His creativity ranges from the planning of neon works to the elaboration of sports car, but with his musical experimantations Moroder will reach the world-wide renown.
Precursor in the use of synthesizers Giorgio tenaciously undertook in the seventies to explore new rhythms and sounds, research that will culminate with the creation of the Donna Summer phenomenon. In 1984 Moroder worked on the restoration of Metropolis, a famous silent film released in 1927.
The new version of Metropolis was coloured, worked out again with 24 pictures in a second and above all was enriched with a modern rock soundtrack. The innovations produced an harsh dibate that bore in the same measure adverse and favourable criticism. The Moroder version of Metropolis had anyway the merit to take again to public life a masterpiece of the German expressionism, regarded as the best creation of the director Fritz Lang.
The German expressionist cinema was born in the twenties with the use of a stylized set and a recitation made by jerkily and unnatural movements. Metropolis is the most famous kolossal of the silent cinema, with the use of more than 35000 figurants, and that needed a 19 months filming in the Staakan Studio of the UFA, the most prestigious motion-picture industry at that time, in Neubalbelsberg, near Berlin.
In the first night in New York City more than 10000 tickets were sold. The original film of a 3 hours and 20 minutes length got lost to a great extent. Besides the Moroder version (80 minutes) there is an other restored by Enno Patalas (147 minutes) and a last one revised by Kevin Saunders Hayes in 1997.
Technically the movie made use of filming systems astonishing for that time: for example the stop-motion animation for the realization of special effects, technique that was in use until the birth of the computer graphics. The Memory of the World Register, arisen under the aegis of the UNESCO in 1992 to safeguard the most remarkable works of Humanity, numbers Metropolis as first between the movies included for the technical and cultural value.
Heres My Heart appears several times in the Moroder movie. The short video presented in this page represents one of the most touching scene, that shows the fatal meeting between Joh, son of the multi-millionaire Freder, dominator of the superindustrialized Metropolis city, and Maria who lives in the underground city with thousands of people held in thraldom.
The Pat Benatar voice is the perfect finishing touch of this scene, a perfect junction between ancients and modernity.

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[Bpothik]

I FELL IN LOVE with this version from the movie and was absolutely crestfallen to buy the CD and find something that was, albeit lovely Pat Benatar, but some lumpy dance version. Maybe we can hope and pray for THAT version to be released one day, in addition to the DVD??!

[broadway11000]

I love Pat Benatar - kocham !!!

[priscillanobre74]

Now that's what I call a super really romantic moment right there when two couples are deeply in love

[loodwig]

@Bpothik I so agree! One of the first films I ever saw in my life, and still one of my favorites.

[Starglance]

@mrscry

I know what you mean!

Let me assure you, if you search a bit in the internet there is a 2CD-version of the REAL soundtrack wich you can not buy but download. AND: This one features the original versions we know from the movie, not this unfamous CD-version wich was released ;-)

[mrscry]

@Tamantha221 You are right that this version found in the actual film blows away that on CD, but are you sure you initially heard it on "Innamorata"? That was an unplugged acoustic album I think.

[mrscry]

@Starglance I am so glad I found this YouTube page, because I thought I was literally the only one in the world who was disgusted by the official soundtrack that was released.

[mrscry]

@FlavioSousa35 I think this song is the most beautiful piece of romantic art ever. I want to fall in love so bad every time I hear it.

[mrscry]

@DMC12guy The official soundtrack is a joke... all bad rerecordings of great songs. And there is a lot of soundscape that is fantastic that the official soundtrack and B-sides all left out.

[mrscry]

@heythanksbutnothanks I just read that it's only being released on Region 1... what does that mean? Is that a European thing that I can't get?

[mrscry]

@heythanksbutnothanks I love all three versions in the movie... but, man, the version on the soundtrack is really lame... I don't know why they rerecorded all the songs for the soundtrack.

[mrscry]

@heythanksbutnothanks I don't see Rotwangs party on your channel... can you guide me?