At the root of it all is the likeness to the female robot, often called “Maria,” in Fritz Lang’s masterwork of futurism, Metropolis. Maria has inspired countless cultural references ...

(As a quick sidenote, Lang’s wife, novelist and Metropolis screenwriter Thea von ... Meanwhile an engineer with a beef builds a humanoid robot to exact a little revenge, and the workers begin ...

Movie poster for Fritz Lang’s 1926 film Metropolis. (Fine Art Images / Heritage ... and a wicked scientist builds a robot to steal the missionary’s identity and seduce the workers to ...

A complete version of Fritz Lang’s silent film classic Metropolis was discovered in ... scientist (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), who has created a robot with human qualities, to give it Maria’s ...

Metropolis has been a passion project for Mr. Robot creator Esmail ... via Anonymous Content. Directed by Lang and written by Thea Von Harbou based on the latter’s 1925 novel, the original ...

From the Maschinenmensch in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, to C3P0 ... Based on the Czech ‘robota’, meaning servitude, the word ‘robot’ was first used by Czech writer Karel Capek in his ...

From Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” and Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot” to “WALL-E” and the “Terminator” films, and in countless iterations in between, they have succeeded admirably in ...

Artificial Intelligence has fascinated filmmakers as far back as the 1920s with Fritz Lang's dazzling "Metropolis ... there's no mistaking she's a robot with her visible metal skeletal structure ...

complete with his non-humanoid robot love interest. In Fritz Lang’s crazy, visionary 1927 masterpiece, a mad scientist creates a female robot version of his late beloved. But later, he turns ...