To say H.G. Wells didn’t like Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” would be criminal understatement! Alan and Paul discuss Wells’s cinematic response to Lang: “Things to Come” (1936).
The genesis of “Things to Come” starts with HG Wells’s less-than-charitable review of Metropolis:
Originality there is none. Independent thought, none….
The word Metropolis, says the advertisement in English, “is in itself symbolic of greatness”‘- which only shows us how wise it is to consult a dictionary before making assertions about the meaning of words.1
Harsh words! Listen in for more as Alan and Paul discuss Wells and his alternate vision of the future.
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