{"id":224624,"date":"2026-03-13T08:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/?p=224624"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:20:29","slug":"why-metropolis-fritz-langs-silent-movie-still-defines-sci-fi-100-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/why-metropolis-fritz-langs-silent-movie-still-defines-sci-fi-100-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8222;Metropolis&#8220;, Fritz Lang&#8217;s Silent Movie, Still Defines Sci\u2011Fi 100 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ich habe mich fr\u00fcher h\u00e4ufig gefragt, ob die Welt heute so w\u00e4re, wie sie ist, wenn es keine Sci\u2011Fi Filme gegeben h\u00e4tte, oder ob vieles, was wir heute um uns haben, genau deshalb da ist, weil die Menschheit sich eben von jenen Filmen hat inspirieren lassen. DW geht genau jener Frage mal nach. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before &#8218;Star Wars&#8216;. Before &#8218;Blade Runner&#8216;. Before every futuristic city, rogue android, or AI uprising you\u2019ve ever seen, there was &#8218;Metropolis&#8216; (1927). This video dives deep into how Fritz Lang\u2019s silent-era masterpiece built the visual language of modern sci-fi, shaped pop culture for a century, and predicted the world we live in today: AI, surveillance, mega-cities, class conflict, and the fear of machines taking over. We explore: The story of &#8218;Metropolis&#8216; and its groundbreaking themes, how Robot Maria became the blueprint for C-3PO, Ava in &#8218;Ex Machina&#8216;, and every seductive android since and why &#8218;Metropolis&#8216; still shapes the future, nearly 100 years later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lFdvbf9bomM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=de-DE&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\n<small>(<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lFdvbf9bomM?si=2DbtCmqakU-jndRU\">Direktlink<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2026\/03\/10\/Did-iMetropolisi-Predict-the-Future-or-Influence-It\/\">Neatorama<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ich habe mich fr\u00fcher h\u00e4ufig gefragt, ob die Welt heute so w\u00e4re, wie sie ist, wenn es keine Sci\u2011Fi Filme gegeben h\u00e4tte, oder ob vieles,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/why-metropolis-fritz-langs-silent-movie-still-defines-sci-fi-100-years-later\/\">Mehr lesen -&gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why &#8222;Metropolis&#8220;, Fritz Lang&#8217;s Silent Movie, Still Defines Sci\u2011Fi 100 Years Later<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2918,9252,490,889],"class_list":["post-224624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nur-mal-so","tag-cinema","tag-metropolis","tag-movies","tag-sci-fi","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads2\/2026\/03\/maxresdefault-3.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXEnA-WqY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224627,"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224624\/revisions\/224627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}