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Subject: re: METROPOLIS
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Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 03:20:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  5 03:20:30 1985
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> 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)

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