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

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

Metropolis is one of the movies I want to get on DVD some time.

I'm not sure which version to get -- they've had a few re-releases.

[prog.livejournal.com]

My favorite was the ~2002 restoration, which I think is the most complete and narratively coherent version now available.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

The Kino version, right?

The title cards explaining the missing bits are nice, but what really makes that one excellent is that they included the original score, which turns out to be fantastic! Who knew?

[poetgeek.livejournal.com]

Which would not be the $1.99 version found at Marden's natch.