Fritz Lang Inspired a Great Anime?

I came here to ask if this movie was influenced by the 1927 version. Anyone find any
elucidation to this courtesy of the director?

'the horror... the horror...'

Fritz Lang inspired great manga.

This film is a weird retelling of a classic manga. Some parts are great some parts are dumb. Oh well.

The manga is pretty much it's own story but the creator of the comic apparently was inspired by just a poster of the German film. He had never actually seen it.

It goes both ways; apparently when Stanley Kubrick was creating 2001 Space Odyssey he asked Osamu Tezuka to work on the imagery with him but Tezuka was too busy.

Astro boy?, you have got to be kidding, i used to watch that feeble cartoon when i was a kid, and even then i hated that freaking cartoon. You people do not know the word great anime when it hits you in the face. This was not just an anime film this was possibly the greatest anime film ever conceived. And yes it is a rendition of Fritz Lang's film from 1921. I think it was beautiful in ever way. Let me explain, from what i have seen on anime these days. It is all blood and guts along with some cocky story of vampires or demons or sword wielding idiots who think they can make a difference in this world. Well guess what? that is life in all forms and measures. Good and evil live everywhere and in this film, it lived in the heart of an old man who had a mad scientist create a special android who WAS supposed to save mankind. But as in all cases and unusual happenstances, the girl tima was damaged from a bullet. Of course now her initiative was to destroy the world and everything on it. The grand scale of buildings and wonderful displays of machine gears gave this movie scope, in all ways. You only look for techno buildings with bleeps here and there with great motor cycles or high speed pursuit cars with a sword wielding knuckle dragger who just slice and dice for the fun of it. You really do not get this story at all do you? Not one of you get it. It is no wonder why this film was not given any oscars for possibly the greatest imaginative film ever. And remember not all of this film used CGI, all characters were hand drawn and not one scene used repeated sequences except the hair on tima when the sun shone on her standing on the tin roof. Everything else such as people did their own thing, including walking talking laughing or what ever else the human race does. None of you mentioned that did you?... no of course not. I am so sad none of you liked it, it gave us the vision that old and new CAN collide with such ferocity that the reverberations can be felt across the globe. The use of old music such as jazz or upbeat 30's pop was sheer genius. Especially when we hear Ray charles singing an old classic song called ' I can't stop loving you'' at the near end when everything comes tumbling down. That in itself was a brilliant juxtaposition to what can happen when high technology just gets a kick in the ass for being so cocky. As for you all i suggest you all watch it again with an open mind next time. Don't be so hard to judge a film because of sheer minute details which doesn't even exist in this film. Astro boy - what a joke.

If so I wish I had seen that one instead of the anime Metropolis.



No, seriously, I guess this was ok. Like somebody else said this is supposed to have been inspired just by the poster, it's been too long since I saw Lang's film for me to really compare the two.



Dear Mom, I put a couple of people in Hell today...

Apart from vague thematic similarities in the idea of an oppressed underclass (robots in the anime) and a futuristic setting, I didn't see notice much in common between the two.

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"It was night. I could tell because it was getting dark."

It specifically states in the back of the Metropolis comic (which I'm looking at right now) that Osamu Tezuka was inspired by the image of a female robot, and that's what led to the original comic. But no, he didn't see the movie before writing the comic.

It's the same with his Lost World comic. He liked the name Lost World and the ideas of dinosaurs, so he did his own thing.

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