Fritz Lang - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Lang appears as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film Le Mepris. During the film, his reputation is discussed, and he somewhat lampoons his own reputation for being a temperamental director.
• An old German director with the demeanor of Lang appears during the filming of a bank robbery in Woody Allen's 1969 comedy Take the Money and Run.
• In David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, Lang is mentioned in tandem with James Cameron on page 48.
• A fictional Lang appears as a main character in the Fullmetal Alchemist movie Conqueror of Shambala.
• In Episode 11 of Season 1 of City Hunter, the antagonist's name is Fritz Lang.
• The film director "Fritz Wong" in Ray Bradbury's novels A Graveyard for Lunatics and Let's All Kill Constance is a composite of Fritz Lang and James Wong Howe
• Madonna portrayed Lang for a sequence in her 1989 music video for "Express Yourself", complete with Lang's signature suit and monocle. The video itself is a tribute to Metropolis (film).