From Fritz Lang's silent epic Metropolis (1927) to Ridley and Scott's spectacular Blade Runner (1982), the link between architecture and cinema has always been intimate. The most obvious concepts that connect these two films are the overall visuals of both films and their vision of the city of the future. Scott and Lang's futuristic city is diverse in landscapes, geography and social structure. These two films attempted to imagine a future in which technology was the basis on which society functioned. Technology was culture and without it cities would collapse (Will Brooker). Metropolis and Blade Runner use the themes of relationships between female sexuality, male vision and technology. However, gender roles and technology seem to be the most important part in both films. Blade Runner has become a cult classic. “The film may have survived long enough to benefit from a renewed taste for darker, more violent science fiction. Its appeal has less to do with a fascination with space (which does not appear out of reference in a few lines of dialogue) than with a vision of the earth and humanity in the near future” (Roberts and Wallis Pg 157-8) . Both films have a timeless quality, as they represent the future of our planet Earth. I find it so interesting that even though these films were made in different eras, their ideas about the futuristic city and society are almost identical. The futuristic aspect of these films seems to be the main theme connecting the two films, but obviously there are many other similar aspects shared by these films, such as gender roles and the idea of ​​masculinity versus femininity, which we touch on during the discussion in class when we talk about the movie Blade Runner. ...... half of the sheet ...... dir, by Fritz Lang (Universum Film AG. 1927) Bibliography Will Brooker. “Reel Toads and Imaginary Cities: Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner and the Contemporary Science Fiction Film. (London: Wallflower Press. 2005) Ruppert, Peter. "Technology and gender constructions in Fritz Lang's metropolis." (2000) [Accessed 18 December 2012]Andreas Huyssen. "The Vampire and the Machine: Technology and Sexuality in Fritz Lang's Metropolis." New German Criticism: and Interdisciplinary Journal of German Studies. (1982) Janet Lungstrum. “Metropolis and the technosexual woman of German modernity”. Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) Bordwell Thomson, David. "Sex in Science Fiction Films: Romance or Engineering?". (New York: BFI Publishing, 1984)