Elevators - few other parts of buildings exert a similar pull on movie directors and audiences, as illustrated by feature films like "North by Northwest" (1959), "The Towering Inferno" (1974), "Abwarts" (Going Down) (1984) and "You've Got Mail" (1998). Moviegoers anxiously watched scenes where people happened to find themselves in elevators, traveling up or down, standing next to each other in cramped, closed spaces. What they do, how they talk, what they hope and what they fear - this is where the sought-after thrill of elevators lies, at least in the movies. Again and again, movie directors have focused on the supposed threat emanating from elevators. One disaster after the other could be watched, one drama after the other inside cabins and shafts - quite unlike reality. And yet the elevator principle goes back to antiquity. Once upon a time, the elevator represented the ultimate solution, as illustrated by the "Deus ex machina," the god who was lowered onto the stage to solve major problems in Greek tragedies in 400 BC. The Greeks used manually operated elevator systems allowing people to appear as gods, moved by invisible hands.
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机译：电梯-建筑物的其他部分几乎对电影导演和观众产生类似的拉动作用，例如长片《 North by Northwest》（1959年），《 The Towering Inferno》（1974年），《 Abwarts》（Going Down）（1984年） ）和“您收到邮件”（1998年）。看电影的人焦急地观看着人们偶然发现自己在电梯中上下移动，在狭窄的封闭空间中并排站立的场景。他们的工作，说话方式，希望和恐惧-至少在电影中，这就是电梯令人兴奋的地方。电影导演一次又一次地将注意力集中在电梯发出的所谓威胁上。一场灾难接disaster而至，一场戏接连发生在小屋和竖井里，与现实截然不同。然而，电梯原理可以追溯到古代。曾几何时，电梯代表了最终的解决方案，如“ Deus ex machina”所示，这位神被降下到舞台上以解决公元前400年希腊悲剧中的重大问题。希腊人使用手动操作的电梯系统，使人们可以通过看不见的手移动成神。
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