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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
The form of the modern science-fiction motion picture traces its roots to Fritz Lang's Metropolis. ... To date, every "big budget" science fiction movie, and most of the small ones, owes its heritage to this movie.
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Not sure I agree with that. I can think of SF films that don't seem directly related to 'Metropolis' (except in a very broad sense) - 'Incredible Shrinking Man', 'Alien', 'Solaris', 'Andromeda Strain', 'Next', 'Fantastic Voyage', 'E.T.', 'Jurassic Park' etc.
It's possible to find loose connections between any films - perhaps it could be argued that Jurassic Park has a mad scientist (or at least a scientist who does a mad thing), and Metropolis has a mad scientist too - but then so did Frankenstein which predates Metropolis. And, in purely cinematic terms, Jurassic Park and Metropolis don't seem to have much in common.
So, I'd contend the SF tropes in Metropolis were not themselves original; and the cinematic influence of Metropolis is not apparent in "every" big-budget sf movie - all imho of course
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