Metropolis (1927 film): Difference between revisions

Consequently, many find that [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|Metropolis Is Unoriginal]]: This movie's tropes, characters, visual style, and special effects have been mimicked to the point of exhaustion. Ironically, on its release people criticized the plot for borrowing heavily from Victorian melodramas and other sci-fi stories; [[H. G. Wells]] in particular [https://web.archive.org/web/20080322055130/http://erkelzaar.tsudao.com/reviews/H.G.Wells_on_Metropolis%201927.htm felt he'd been plagiarized]. So some of it may be ''even older'' than people think.