[UA] B-movies

[Jade Hammons]

It's almost not worth replying since you're German, and we're talking about Fritz Lang ;)

But firstly, it's classic status aside, B-Movie didn't mean anything bad throughout most of movie history, and never meant "Bad". In fact, Metropolis, while an expensive "A" in it's native country, was recut and shown in Arthouses as a "B" in America. In fact, it is basically only that American cut that survives to this day. A-movie and B-movie refers, in it's classic meaning, only as it's role in Double Features. The 'B' movie being generally shorter, of lower budget, and of genre. By 1929 Sound was widespread in America, and Metropolis is Genre, Silent, and for the time it reached the American shores, not as high a budget as it was in its homeland. 

It may be a classic, but it was a B movie. It was an import, and all in cost it's distributors was a re-write and a re-cut.

B is a theme, not quality. It was a tidal shift in Hollywood (or an Ascension if you're feeling UA) that made such B-Movie fare as American Graffiti, Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, and The Exorcist into the Hollywood money makers and not the side peices to the the A-movie Epics such as 10 Commandments, Ben Hur, and the like. In fact by the time of the great sea change, the 'Children' of the Star-studded epic where such things as Airport, Towering Inferno, The Posiedon Adventure, etc.

B is not a bad thing, don't be so offended. Even today, the B genre continues to evolve. Only now, people call it 'indie'.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Felix von Wolfsstein 
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  Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 6:40 PM
  Subject: AW: [UA] B-movies


  "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang is definitely NOT a B-Movie.


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