M_a_r_c wrote:

> 4b85931c$1@news.povray.org...
>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>
>>> Well *obviously* that's Superman.
>> Dmanit, if you squint close enough, you can see it says "Telephone 
>> Metropolis" - as in, the fictional city that only exists in the Superman 
>> universe.
>>
> Eerr don't you know German expressionism films? : Fritz Lang 1927
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)

That is indeed a pretty sweet movie, although I haven't seen the new 
restored version with most of the lost scenes which I hear was recently 
released.

There was also a decent anime of the same name released (based on the 
Fritz Lang film):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(anime)

Of course, given that the photo is live-action and in color I can't 
think of any possibility for the city of Metropolis other than Superman.

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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Oh well, never mind. I'm used to failure. (See subject line.)
> 
>   Failure is not the only option.
> 

  That phrase always reminds me of this: 
http://www.angryflower.com/crisis.html

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> Of course, given that the photo is live-action and in color I can't think 
> of any possibility for the city of Metropolis other than Superman.

Indeed :)
I was just making the point that Metropolis does *not* exist only in 
Superman's universe.

Marc

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> Indeed :)
> I was just making the point that Metropolis does *not* exist only in 
> Superman's universe.

This reminds me of when I saw that countdown of the all-time best movie 
robots.

Some of them were good, like Robbie the Robot. Some of them were evil, 
like HAL. All of them were absurdly famous.

But the number one spot, the pinacle of robothood, the jewel in the 
crown, was... was... some robot nobody's ever heard of, from a film 
nobody's ever seen.

And then I looked again at the pannel of judges, and concluded that this 
is probably because they were probably in their teens when Metropolis 
came out in 1874 or whenever it was. :-P

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> And then I looked again at the pannel of judges, and concluded that this 
> is probably because they were probably in their teens when Metropolis 
> came out in 1874 or whenever it was. :-P

  Given that the first commercial exhibition of film took place on 1894,
that's quite unlikely.

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                                                          - Warp

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Invisible wrote:
> Some of them were good, like Robbie the Robot. Some of them were evil, 
> like HAL. All of them were absurdly famous.

HAL wasn't evil.  Just overenthusiastic.

> But the number one spot, the pinacle of robothood, the jewel in the 
> crown, was... was... some robot nobody's ever heard of, from a film 
> nobody's ever seen.

Actually, I would expect that title should go to the star of RUR, the movie 
which invented to word "robot."  :-)

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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>> And then I looked again at the pannel of judges, and concluded that this 
>> is probably because they were probably in their teens when Metropolis 
>> came out in 1874 or whenever it was. :-P
> 
>   Given that the first commercial exhibition of film took place on 1894,
> that's quite unlikely.

 From the look of the short clips they shows, it wouldn't surprise me if 
this film predates commercial filming. :-P

But sure. I just meant that the film is so astonishingly old that almost 
nobody will have ever heard of it. I very much doubt that the date I 
randomly picked out of the air happens to be anywhere near the real 
release date.

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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Some of them were good, like Robbie the Robot. Some of them were evil, 
>> like HAL. All of them were absurdly famous.
> 
> HAL wasn't evil.  Just overenthusiastic.
> 

Thus spake Zaraprogrammer :-)


>> But the number one spot, the pinacle of robothood, the jewel in the 
>> crown, was... was... some robot nobody's ever heard of, from a film 
>> nobody's ever seen.
> 
> Actually, I would expect that title should go to the star of RUR, the 
> movie which invented to word "robot."  :-)
> 

I always liked Tobor the Great.
BTW robot is Tobor spelt backwards ;)


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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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Invisible wrote:
> 
> But sure. I just meant that the film is so astonishingly old that almost 
> nobody will have ever heard of it.

This is absolutely not true.  Fritz Lang's Metropolis is *far* from 
obscure, and is probably one of the better known "classic" movies out 
there.  Sure, if you only watch movies that you've had a chance to see 
in the theater you won't have seen it, but in that case you wouldn't 
have watched Casablanca, Citizen Cane, Modern Times, etc. either.

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Stephen wrote:
>> HAL wasn't evil.  Just overenthusiastic.
> Thus spake Zaraprogrammer :-)

It's explained quite well in the book, really. :)  No more evil than a 
general sending soldiers on a mission where he knows they'll die. Not *good* 
mind you...

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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