Comments on: Pains-taking Plus Metropolis

By: ajay

ajay — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:07:12 +0000

Giving a nice link between “Metropolis” and “The Magic Roundabout”.

By: Kip Manley

Kip Manley — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:36:01 +0000

According to this, he only saw a still, so I might be misremembering. I haven't seen the manga, just the anime, and that (in the bustling mise en scène) sure feels much more directly inspired by Lang than would be suggested merely by having seen a still. —Then, it would be, wouldn't it.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:08:37 +0000

I’ve never seen that Metropolis, or the Tezuka. He really saw an untranslated print and invented a story to go with?

By: Kip Manley

Kip Manley — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:03:45 +0000

Based on a manga by Tezuka, which he did after seeing an untranslated print of Lang’s Metropolis and wondering to himself what, exactly, had been going on in that film.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:23:22 +0000

Whoops. That should be the anime Metropolis. Otomo also wrote and directed Akira.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:21:50 +0000

Have you seen the anime Akira, written by Katsuhiro Otomo? It takes Lang's premise and to some extent his aesthetic and runs with it in a more Asimovian direction about how we should treat intelligent, feeling robots.

By: Metropolis — Fritz Lang 2006 Promotion : NuT

Metropolis — Fritz Lang 2006 Promotion : NuT — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:08:57 +0000

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