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* SoundtrackDissonance / CrowningMusicOfAwesome / DethroningMusicOfSuck: Giorgio Moroder's version is a [[LoveItOrHateIt love it]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks or hate it]], [[CultClassic cult adaptation]]. Featuring [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuUqdkO47w Jon Anderson]] (of {{Yes}}), PatBenatar, Adam Ant, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNEjSi9SVAU "Destruction"]] by Loverboy, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLUo2UQxSts Bonnie Tyler]], [[{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7CLLBZpT_Q Cycle V and Moroder himself]]. Yes. [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Hard to find]].[[hottip:**: even on Youtube -- apparently FW Murnau Foundation is against it, [[SarcasmMode though they aren't against any other version appearing on Youtube]]...]]

* BurnTheWitch: [[RecycledInSpace On a pyre]] [[MadeOfExplodium made of]] [[IncendiaryExponent burning automobiles]]. Too bad [[spoiler:[[TheReveal she's a robot]]]].

* [[strike: Seinfeld Is Unfunny]] [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny 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; HGWells in particular [[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.

* SoundtrackDissonance / CrowningMusicOfAwesome / DethroningMusicOfSuck: Giorgio Moroder's version is a [[LoveItOrHateIt love it]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks or hate it]], [[CultClassic cult adaptation]]. Featuring PatBenatar, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuUqdkO47w Jon Anderson]] (of {{Yes}}), Adam Ant, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGmF0t2rZcU Loverboy]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLUo2UQxSts Bonnie Tyler]], and [[{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]]. Yes. [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Hard to find]].[[hottip:**: even on Youtube -- apparently FW Murnau Foundation is against it, [[SarcasmMode though they aren't against any other version appearing on Youtube]]...]]

** In DCComics' AllStarSquadron series, the robot villainess Mekanique was not just based on the Maria robot- IT WAS THE SAME ROBOT, given time travel powers and sent into the past to make sure Rotwang's future would come to exist. And apparently she ''succeeded''. (Note this is PreCrisis stuff and may no longer be canonical.)

* SoundtrackDissonance / CrowningMusicOfAwesome / DethroningMusicOfSuck: Giorgio Moroder's version is a [[YourMileageMayVary love it]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks or hate it]], [[CultClassic cult adaptation]]. Featuring PatBenatar, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuUqdkO47w Jon Anderson]] (of {{Yes}}), Adam Ant, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGmF0t2rZcU Loverboy]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLUo2UQxSts Bonnie Tyler]], and [[{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]]. Yes. [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Hard to find]].[[hottip:**: even on Youtube -- apparently FW Murnau Foundation is against it, [[SarcasmMode though they aren't against any other version appearing on Youtube]]...]]

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It tells the story of a society divided in two, the workers on the underground and the wealthy on the exterior, and how Freder, the son of Fredersen, the supreme ruler of the city, falls in love with a worker called Maria and the class confrontation between them fueled by Rotwang, a MadScientist rival of Fredersen.

It tells the story of a society divided in two, the workers on the underground and the wealthy on the exterior, and how Freder, the son of the supreme ruler of the city, falls in love with a worker called Maria and the class confrontation between them fueled by Rotwang, a MadScientist rival of Fredersen.

It tells the story of a society divided in two, the workers on the underground and the wealthy on the exterior, and how Freder, the son of the supreme ruler of the city, falls in love with a worker called Maria and the class confrontation between them fueled by Rotwang, a MadScientist rival of Fredersen, the supreme ruler and Freder's father.

* LifeImitatesArt: In the film, Rotwang's lover Hel left him for Joh Fredersen; in real life, Rudolf Klein Rogge's wife was the film's writer Thea von Harbau, who had an affair with and ultimately left him for Lang.

* LifeImitatingArt: In the film, Rotwang's lover Hel left him for Joh Fredersen; in real life, Rudolf Klein Rogge's wife was the film's writer Thea von Harbau, who had an affair with and ultimately left him for Lang.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Moroder made the rock opera version after outbidding DavidBowie for the rights. God know what he...scratch, probably even ''God'' doesn't know what Bowie would have done with ''Metropolis''.

Up to 25% of the original footage was considered lost before turning up in a museum in Argentina in 2007. An upcoming release on BluRay disc is said to restore the movie back to about 90-95 percent. This new version runs only about eight minutes short of the original German cut, as opposed to as much as an entire hour shorter in some versions. However, two scenes remained too badly damaged to restore and were replaced by title cards.

* BadExportForYou: Up until 2003, nearly every version of this movie released in America was based on the original Channing Pollock version. And then there was the version made in TheEighties... an... interesting experiment.

* BetterOnDVD: Way better, especially now that this movie has been found ''complete'' and will be released on DVD in November 2010.

Up to 25% of the original footage was considered lost before turning up in a museum in Argentina in 2007. An upcoming release on BluRay disc is said to restore the movie back to about 90-95 percent.

Loosely inspired the anime film and manga, ''[[OsamuTezukasMetropolis Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis]]''.

Also notable is the 1984 color-tinted restoration by composer Georgio Moroder, which is [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes only available on VHS]] due to its [[BrokenBase controversial]] [[TheEighties 80's]] [[NotableOriginalMusic pop soundtrack]].

*** As does [[StarWars Darth Vader]]...

* SpiritualSequel: This film was to the 20's what BladeRunner was to the 80's.