In fiction and folklore, a doppelgänger or doppelga(e)nger (/ˈdɒpᵊlˌɡɛŋə/ or /-ˌɡæŋə/; German: [ˈdɔpəlˌɡɛŋɐ], literally "double-goer") is a look-alike or double of a living person, sometimes portrayed as a paranormal phenomenon, and in some traditions as a harbinger of bad luck. In other traditions and stories, they recognize your 'double-goer' as an evil twin.
The word doppelgänger is often used in a more general sense to describe any person who physically or behaviorally resembles another person.
The word doppelgänger is a loanword from German Doppelgänger, consisting of the two substantives Doppel (double) Gänger (walker or goer). The singular and plural form are the same in German, but English usually prefers the plural "doppelgängers." It was first used by Jean Paul in the novel Siebenkäs (1796), and his newly coined word is explained by a footnote.
As is true for all other common nouns in German, the word is written with an initial capital letter. In English, the word is conventionally uncapitalized (doppelgänger). It is also common to drop the diacritic umlaut, writing "doppelganger."
Doppelganger (also known as Doppelganger: The Evil Within) is a 1993 American supernatural thriller film starring Drew Barrymore.
The story follows Holly Gooding (Barrymore), who moves from New York City to Los Angeles after being implicated in a murder. She is followed by what is apparently her evil twin. While in Los Angeles, she finds a room for rent by a writer and the two begin a love affair. After some strange occurrences, it becomes less and less clear whether the woman is in fact Holly or her Doppelgänger. She finds a roommate to share an apartment, and befriends him.
Patrick (the writer) soon starts to realize something is odd about Holly. As he spends more and more time with her, things heat up and he falls for her. Not knowing that she is as crazy as her brother Fred, who is in a psychiatric hospital after killing his own father. And when Patrick finds out that Holly's mother was murdered and she was the prime suspect, he starts doubting her sanity. But by that time he is too attached to her and does not want her going to jail. So when her brother Fred is attacked and she once more is a suspect he decides he is going to get to the bottom of it no matter what.
Doppelgänger is a 1969 British science fiction film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Lynn Loring and Patrick Wymark. Outside Europe, it is known as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, which is now the more popular title. In the film, a joint European-NASA mission to investigate a planet in a position parallel to Earth, behind the Sun, ends in disaster with the death of one of the astronauts (Hendry). His colleague (Thinnes) discovers that the planet is a mirror image of Earth.
The first major live-action film of Century 21 writers-producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, noted for Thunderbirds and other 1960s "Supermarionation" puppet television series, shooting for Doppelgänger ran from July to October 1968. Using Pinewood Studios as the principal production base, Parrish also filmed on location in both England and Portugal. The professional relationship between the Andersons and their director became strained as the shooting progressed, while creative disagreements with cinematographer John Read resulted in his resignation from Century 21.
I was out / with a friend
Trying to put the past to bed
'Cross the room, I saw you
With a girl who's looking weirdly familiar, familiar
Strange seeing your twin in the bathroom, yeah, yeah
When you didn't even know you had one
She looks like me, she looks just like me
Why don't you see it
She dances like me, dances just like me
Why don't you see it
Introduced me to her
But I never really got her name
Guess it's all just a blur
When you're looking in a mirror at midnight, at midnight
Strange seeing your twin in the bathroom, yeah, yeah
When you didn't even know you had one
She looks like me, she looks just like me
Why don't you see it
She dances like me, dances just like me
Why don't you see it
She looks like me, she looks just like me
Why don't you see it
She dances like me, dances just like me
Why don't you see it
You see it
You see it
So I see your smile
I know it was no accident
There is no denial
I kinda wish I'd thought of it first
She looks like me, she looks just like me
Why don't you see it
She dances like me, dances just like me
Why don't you see it
You see it
Why don't you see it
Why don't you see it