Trying to kill time, he started reading the cheap novels. Instead, he found a stack of penny dreadfuls, including The Phantom Robber. When Lang was a teenager, he snuck into his maid’s bedroom to catch a glimpse of her disrobing. Lang might not have been interested in sci-fi, but he was certainly interested in watching his house servant undress. The genre was simply unavailable, even if Lang wanted to read it. Justifiably or not, science fiction in the early 1900s was considered literary garbage. Born into relatively wealthy status, he was discouraged from reading pulp fiction. Lang may have directed one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time, but he was not a lifelong fan of the genre. Many forces went into shaping the imagery of Metropolis, but most of the great shots come from director Fritz Lang’s monocled eye for details. Madonna and Lady Gaga have similarly copied Maria for their wardrobes. Maria the Maschinenmensch’s robotic frame was a direct visual inspiration for Star Wars’s C-3PO. Even the movies that rip off Metropolis are iconic. Blade Runner and Tim Burton’s Batman borrow Fritz Lang’s steely skyline of an Art Deco city. Its continued influence is felt in all of the films that steal iconography from Metropolis. Its status as the first science fiction movie of note and its unprecedented production methods are apparently not enough of a legacy. More than 90 years after its release, art of all forms is still shaped by 1927’s Metropolis.
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