FILM 1244: METROPOLIS
TRIVIA: Much to Fritz Lang's dismay,
Adolph Hitler and Joseph Goebbels were big fans of the film. Goebbels met with
Lang and told him that he could be made an honorary Aryan despite his Jewish background.
Goebbels told him "Mr Lang, we decide who is Jewish and who is not".
Lang left for Paris that very night.
Was so influential on Superman
creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster that they
named their character's city after it.
Adjusting for inflation, the budget
for Metropolis (5m Reichsmarks) ran around $200 million (June, 2007).
Unemployment and inflation were so
bad in Germany at the time that the producers had no trouble finding 500
malnourished children to film the flooding sequences.
The robot of this film inspired the
look for C-3PO in Star Wars:
Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
The multiple-exposed sequences were
not created in a lab but right during the filming on the set. The film was
rewound in the camera and then exposed again right away. This was done up to 30
times.
The film takes place in 2026.
The mechanical right hand of one of
the characters was later imitated in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
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