... set design, this film seems to be almost decades ahead of its time. While other movies from around the same time were using painted-on sets to illustrate normal, everyday locales, Metropolis" sets seemed limited only by the imagination of Fritz Lang and others who were involved in ... traffic, and oddly shaped buildings manage to show us the bustling city as Lang envisioned it. It is obvious how influential Metropolis has been on later science fiction films when one looks at a movie such as Blade Runner. The cityscapes created for Blade Runner seem to be an ... workers, living below gro...

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