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One science fiction film bankrupted its entire studio

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Long before CGI could save budgets, making a dystopian sci-fi epic required actually building a dystopia. The 1927 silent masterpiece 'Metropolis' was so absurdly expensive and completely misunderstood by contemporary audiences that it immediately tanked the German studio UFA, proving that being ahead of your time is a fantastic way to go broke.

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