Fritz Lang

because Peter is very fucking honest with his station in life.

This is a guy who comes to this country really hoping to extend beyond the boundaries of Fritz Lang's M and his work with Hitchcock and make a name for himself.

And also you're getting away from the fact that the Nazis are doing horse shit all across Europe.

And you're being asked to do something that you may not be very comfortable with, which is that Mr. Moto role.

Elliott's first words were, I personally thought the use of Dutch angles was derivative in the 400 blows.

And Nathan's favorite historical figure is Fritz Lang.

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So the capital planet of the, of the federation, th- this, in, of, of the empire, th- this huge planet, this city that covers up an entire, this incredible planet that was later unash- un- unashamedly copied by George Lucas [laughs] with Coruscant in Star Wars, okay? That one.

And when while reading Foundation, I think that I was constantly thinking about Metropolis by Fritz Lang.

Mm-hmm.

And yeah, for me, they're kind of the same thing in many ways.

Look at the light, the way they did that.

Metropolis and Fritz Lang.

So you couldn't say any one particular picture was an influence on my performance or anything, but through osmosis of all of these different influences, It actually kind of changed my viewing chemistry.

Inspiring.

Yeah.

Fritz Lang movie, Josh, right? Uh, he had to escape from Nazi Germany.

And, um, really, what a career he made for himself over here.

So, um, this was L- Lorre's last film with Warner Brothers, and Warner Brothers' only attempt to make a horror movie in the 1940s.

So, so good.

furthermore there's just the general trope of a mad scientist this trope dates back in fiction to dr frankenstein debuting in 1818 and he's considered more of a bridge between alchemists and modern scientists as the spawn of the archetype of a scientist on the forefront and cutting edge of technological advancement so that's dr frankenstein in terms of cinematic depictions there's also the character rotwang from or Rotwang, I'm pretty sure it's probably pronounced Rotwang, from Fritz Lang's film Metropolis, the evil genius whose machines brought the eponymous city of Metropolis to life.

There's even a small bit of visual similarity with Dr. Gero here with long white hair.

There is one more visual comparison worth mentioning, even if not overly likely, because any attempt to trace it to really anything Toriyama ever interacted with is difficult.