Things to Come (1936)
Directed by William Cameron Menzies
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
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The movie's production never touched down in Africa itself (it was largely shot in Atlanta and in South Korea), but the simulation presented here has an exotic fantasy glow, with the skyscrapers and elevated trains of the cleverly obscured Wakanda recalling the studio-born wonders of the 1936 futurist classic Things to Come .
(It recalls the futuristic metropolis of the 1936 Things to Come .)
The last two narrative strands, in some ways the most conventional, are science-fiction tales set in different dystopian futures that recall HG Wells's The Time Machine and the 1936 film of his Things to Come.
Depicting the future stumped Fritz Lang with Metropolis and H.G. Wells with Things to Come.
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But cinematic and political clichés are regurgitated in La La Land and Things to Come.