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Metropolis influenced Blade Runner
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The evidence
Blade Runner's Los Angeles takes its vertical city from Metropolis: the powerful in a pyramid above the streets, the crowds and machinery below. The debt is cited by the film's designers and in most histories of both films.
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