History Trivia / Metropolis

* ReferencedBy: The music video for Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s [[Music/TheWorks "Radio Ga Ga"]] is set in the world of the film and features clips from it. The video was made to promote the 1984 restoration, which featured Queen frontman Music/FreddieMercury as one of the new soundtrack's performers, and the film gets a special thanks during the video's FreezeFrameEnding.

* DigitalDestruction: Thankfully averted in the 2010 remaster. A special feature on the restoration included on the Kino DVD release shows how the usual computerized 'clean-up' process for old films (which compares each frame to the one before and after to eliminate blemishes on the record) could make fast-moving objects (like a running man's legs) disappear. Therefore, the automated process was carefully supervised, and manual operations and techniques used to ensure that detail was not lost.

!!Trivia for Creator/FritzLang's ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Every version was different for ''decades''. And the only full version surviving was apparently acquired by an Argentinian film distributor before the first cuts were made. It had originally been printed on nitrate film stock, which was both flammable and prone to deterioration. Later it was transferred onto a more stable type of stock as a safeguard; this copy passed through various hands and wound up at a film museum in Buenos Aires. However, the transfer ​process was done on such a low budget (something that has plagued much of the Argentinian film heritage) that the image quality was reduced to the level of an amateur production. The copy was found in 2008, and footage from both it and a second one archived in New Zealand was used to restore as many damaged/missing scenes as possible after extensive cleanup. The end result comes up about five minutes short of the original running time and is the most complete version to date.

* ''Metropolis'' is in the city known as the RogerEbertGreatMoviesList.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Every version was different for ''decades''. And the only full version surviving was apparently acquired by an Argentinian film distributor before the first cuts were made. It had originally been printed on nitrate film stock, which was both flammable and prone to deterioration. Later it was transferred onto a more stable type of stock as a safeguard; this copy passed through various hands and wound up at a film museum in Buenos Aires. However, the transfer ​process was done on such a low budget (something that has plagued much of the Argentinian film heritage) that the image quality was reduced to the level of an amateur production. The copy was found in 2008, and footage from both it and a second one archived in New Zealand were used to restore as many damaged/missing scenes as possible after extensive cleanup. The end result comes up about five minutes short of the original running time and is the most complete version to date.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Every version was different for ''decades''. And the only full version surviving was apparently acquired by an Argentinian film distributor before the first cuts were made. It had originally been printed on nitrate film stock, which was both flammable and prone to deterioration. Later it was transferred onto a more stable type of stock as a safeguard; this copy passed through various hands and wound up at a film museum in Buenos Aires. However, the transfer ​process was done on such a low budget (something that has plagued much of the Argentinian film heritage) that the image quality was reduced to the level of an amateur production. The copy was found in 2008, and footage from both it and a second one archived in New Zealand were used to restore as much of the damaged footage as possible after extensive cleanup. The end result comes up about five minutes short of the original running time and is the most complete version to date.

* ActingForTwo: Brigette Helm plays both Maria and her robotic duplicate.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Every version was different for ''decades''. And the only full version surviving was apparently acquired by an Argentinian film distributor before the first cuts were made. It had originally been printed on nitrate film stock, which was both flammable and prone to deterioration. Later it was transferred onto a more stable type of stock as a safeguard; this copy passed through various hands and wound up at a film museum in Buenos Aires. However, the transfer ​process was done on such a low budget (something that has plagued much of the Argentinian film heritage) that the image quality was reduced to the level of an amateur production. The copy was found in 2008, and footage from both it and a second one archived in New Zealand were used to restore as much of the damaged footage as possible after extensive cleanup. The end result runs about five minutes short of the original running time and is the most complete version to date.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Every version was different for ''decades''. And the only full version surviving was apparently acquired by a collector before the first cuts were made, then wound up in an Argentinian archive in the 1950s. Being a dangerous nitrate print, it was later required by Argentinian law to be copied and the original be destroyed. This was done on such a low budget (something that has plagued much of the Argentinian film heritage) that the image quality was reduced to the level of an amateur production. This copy was found in 2010, and nearly all of the damaged sections were restored (as much as was virtually possible) to give the most complete version to date.
* MissingEpisode: Missing ''a third of the entire movie'' for many years. Even with the rediscovered version, there are still two missing scenes[[labelnote:†]] ("missing" in a technical sense; they ''were'' found with the rest of the excised shots, but were deemed too degraded to restore)[[/labelnote]], one of which is heavily plot-relevant. To make matters even worse, there have been rumors that there are even ''more'' missing scenes that were cut from the film before its German premiere to help shorten the time of the film. It's possible that Lang didn't destroy these scenes and there may be even more unseen footage for this film.

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* ''Metropolis'' is in the city known as the RogerEbertGreatMoviesList.

!!Trivia for Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Anime/{{Metropolis}}''
* OldShame: The reason a film adaptation was never attempted in Tezuka's lifetime was that he came to dislike the original manga as being too crude and amateurish.

* TheCameo: Several famous actors of the era appeared in brief walk-on roles. These include [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Storm Olaf Storm]] as Jan, (who [[MaleGaze enthusiastically]] watches the ''Whore of Babylon''-dance, before getting stabbed to death during a duel in the Eternal Gardens,) and Creator/MaryAstor (as the nurse tending to Freder.)

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/FritzLang in later interviews repeatedly stated that he did not consider this film to be one of his best works (he consider ''Film/{{M}}'' his best film). His reasons stem from his dissatisfaction with the story, its weak ending, his bad memories from his failed marriage to Thea von Harbou (who was the main visionary of the film) and the fact that [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame the Nazis liked it:]]

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/FritzLang in later interviews repeatedly stated that he did not consider this film to be one of his best works (he consider ''Film/{{M}}'' his best film). His reasons stem from his dissatisfaction with the story, its weak ending, his bad memories from his failed marriage to Thea von Harbou (who was the main visionary of the film) and the fact that the Nazis liked it: