ROTWANG GIP

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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.

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[ianmcin.livejournal.com]

I had a professor in college who showed us Metropolis. He went on to claim that Rotwang - with his single glove and twisted hand - was the inspiration for dozens of mad scientist archetypes in movies thereafter. In particular, he cited Peter Seller's character in Kubrick's classic, "Doctor Strange-Glove".

I didn't have the heart to correct him.