From Fritz Lang's silent epic Metropolis (1927) to Ridley 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 cities are distinguished by their landscapes, geography and social structure. These two films sought to imagine a future where technology would be the basis of how society functions. Technology was culture and cities would collapse without it (Will Brooker). Metropolis and Blade Runner use the theme of relationships between female sexuality, male vision and technology. However, gender roles and technology seem to be the most important elements 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 outer space (which doesn't feature beyond references in a few lines of dialogue) than with a vision of Earth and humanity in the near future." (Roberts and Wallis, pages 157-8). Both films have a timeless quality, as they are representative of the future of our planet Earth. I find it very 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 that connects the two films, but there are of course many other similar aspects that these films share, such as gender roles and the idea of ​​masculinity versus femininity, which we bring up in a class discussion when we talk about the movie Blade Runner. ...... middle of paper ......dir, by Fritz Lang (Universum Film AG. 1927)BibliographyWill Brooker. “Reel Toads and Imaginary Cites: 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 December 18, 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. “The 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: Éditions BFI, 1984)