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Fritz Lang visited… New York City. New York exploded in the 1920s thanks to innovations in steel and reinforced concrete, which allowed them to build much taller. This led to a population boom, and because Manhattan is an island, it grew even taller. He saw the skyscrapers and the factories and the energy. And he tried to capture all of this, but at a mega scale. Using set design and special effects that were insane for that time. He created the image of a mega city which actually inspired movies like Blade Runner and Star Wars, And of course, Akira and Neo Tokyo.
✏️ NYC is having a boom in production due to innovations in steel/reinforced concrete, they build tall, they get pop boom.. it’s an island, so it builds up and up and congested. Lang visits and is inspired, makes Metropolis, with it’s iconic megacity of elite on top, and workers on bottom layer. This is inspiration for all things cyberpunk honestly.. akira, bladerunner, and any creation of a city with stratified layers of social class. Just a thought experiment about the the causality of things.. how so much would be different if he hadn’t visited NYC.. if he went to a city developing differently, etc. 👓 worldbuilding history science fiction narrative 🔗 View Highlight
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Metropolis is a mega city with a very clear vertical separation, with the upper class at the top and the working class at the bottom operating this machine that keeps everyone afloat.