Although some people thought that the film was inspired by the 1992 murder of Stuart Tay, an Asian-American youth who was killed by four of his peers on New Year's Eve in Orange County, California, filmmaker Justin Lin has stated that "at the very beginning of the writing process, [he] made a conscious decision not to base it on that, or any other, real event."
Metropolis - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Fritz Lang ordered extras to throw themselves towards powerful jets of water when filming the flooding of the worker's city
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This was the first film ever to be registered in the "Memory of the World-Register" of the UNESCO in 2001.
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For the chase across the rooftops, Brigitte Helm and Rudolf Klein-Rogge actually had to climb across the tops of the exterior sets and race on planks 25 feet above the ground. At the end of that sequence, Helm, without benefit of stunt woman, had to leap for the rope attached to the cathedral's bells. Although mattresses were placed in the event of a fall, the height would still make the stunt dangerous. She caught the rope first try, and then slowly slid down it as the ringing bell sent her careening into the set's walls. Bruised and battered, she fled the set in tears.
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Fritz Lang would frequently demand numerous re-takes, and took two days to shoot a simple scene where Freder collapses at Maria's feet; by the time Lang was satisfied with the footage he had shot, actor Gustav Fröhlich found he could barely stand.
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Footage of this film was used in the British Rock Band, Queen's Music Video for "Radio Ga Ga".
Metropolis - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Metropolis - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Metropolis - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Metropolis - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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