Film· 1927· Science Fiction
by Fritz Lang
Metropolis: 2 recorded works trace back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
Works that record this one as a source, with the evidence a contributor gave.
C-3PO's design comes from the robot Maria. Ralph McQuarrie's concept art for the droid was drawn after the Metropolis robot, and the finished costume keeps its gold, art-deco figure. The claim is about C-3PO, and the rest of the film owes Metropolis nothing in particular.
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.
Events, places, movements and ideas outside fiction that this work is recorded as drawing on.
Real world
Fritz Lang's city divides its rich thinkers above ground from the workers who toil at the machines beneath, until they rise up.