The World to Come - The World to Come

Japanese: 《来るべき世界》 - きたるべきせかい
The World to Come - The World to Come

...Furthermore, Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926) was the first full-scale sci-fi spectacle, rather than an expressionist film. It was a grandiose work that depicted episodes in a laboratory where robots are made and the fantasy of building the Tower of Babel, making full use of special effects using the Schuftan Process, but its commercial failure brought the production company Ufa to the brink of bankruptcy. Welles, who saw it at the time and criticized it as the height of stupidity, adapted his own novel Things to Come (1933) himself and directed it by WC Menzies (1896-1957) ten years later, in order to set an example of a true futuristic film that would dispel the image of junk such as robot workers and skyscrapers, which became a work that will go down in sci-fi film history, but it also failed commercially. Meanwhile, in Hollywood, the first sci-fi musical, The World 50 Years Later (directed by David Butler), failed in 1930, creating a jinx that futuristic stories would not be a hit, and major studios shied away from sci-fi movies.

*Some of the terminology referenced in "The World to Come" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…さらに,フリッツ・ラング監督の《メトロポリス》(1926)は,表現派というよりも初の本格的SFスペクタクルであり,ロボットを作る実験室のエピソードや,バベルの塔建設の幻想などを,〈シュフタン・プロセス〉による特殊効果を駆使して描いた壮大な作品だが,興行的な失敗から製作会社のウーファを破産寸前に追い込んだ。当時これを見て愚の骨頂とこきおろしたウェルズは,それから10年後,〈ロボット労働者や超高層建築といったがらくたのイメージを払拭(ふつしよく)した真の未来映画〉の範を示すべく,自作の小説《来るべき世界Things to Come》(1933)をみずから脚色し,W.C.メンジース(1896‐1957)が監督して,SF映画史に残る作品となったが,これまた興行的には敗退した。一方,ハリウッドでも,30年に初のSFミュージカル《50年後の世界》(デビッド・バトラー監督)が失敗するという例もあり,未来ものは当たらないというジンクスができて,SF映画はメジャー各社からは敬遠された。…

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