Jul 4
From Metropolis to Midgar
"Lang created one of the unforgettable original places in the cinema. 'Metropolis' (1927) fixed for countless later films the image of a futuristic city as a hell of material progress and human despair. From this film, in various ways, descended not only 'Dark City' but 'Blade Runner', 'The Fifth Element', 'Alphaville', 'Escape From L.A.', 'Gattaca' and Batman's Gotham City… 'Metropolis' does what many great films do, creating a time, place and characters so striking that they become part of our arsenal of images for imagining the world."
—Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" retrospective on Fritz Lang's Metropolis
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