Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re: METROPOLIS Message-ID: <879@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 03:20:30 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.879 Posted: Tue Mar 5 03:20:30 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 05:36:42 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 25 > From: ttidcc!hollombe (Jerry Hollombe) > ...how many people are aware that _Metropolis_ wasn't > written by Fritz Lang? One of my pet peeves is everyone referring to it as > "Fritz Lang's _Metropolis_" when the original novel was actually written by > Thea von Harbou. It's called "Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS" to distinguish it from Thea von Harbou's METROPOLIS. Von Harbou's is the novel, Lang's is the film. The same is done with "Alfred Hitchcock's PYSCHO" (film) vs. "Robert Bloch's PSYCHO" (novel), "Stanley Kubrick's 2001" (film) vs. "Arthur C. Clarke's 2001" (novel), "Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING" (film) vs. Stephen King's THE SHINING" (novel), etc. Von Harbou may have written the novel upon which it's based, but Lang brought it to the screen. Besides, Lang *did* co-write the screenplay for METROPOLIS with von Harbou. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA <"Bibliography is my business">