ROTWANG GIP

[prog]

I swear to god I just happened to find this image on my hard drive a minute ago. It's Rotwang, the batshit insane cyberneticist from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", and a template for the mad-scientist visual stereotype that would develop over the 20th century. It's pronounced ROHT-VAHNG but believe me he's heard it all.

I am fixing problems with exploding filehandles. It causes me to find things like this.

Comments

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Metropolis rocks. I saw a showing at Brandeis in the mid-90s with live music by the Alloy Orchestra, and it was among the coolest things ever. One of the few things that came close to spoiling the experience for me was, in fact, the representatives of Brandeis' fratboy community sitting immediately behind us and making Rotwang jokes. :P

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

i find it amusing when the alloys play to the moroder print -- at the end you see all these 1980s bands in the sound credits, and the alloys are rocking out. "hey, this doesn't sound like loverboy..."