18/48
Coppola abandoned the project entirely in 2007 and didn’t start developing it again until 2019
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The city of New Rome is pitted against the duel between Cesar Catilina, a brilliant artist who espouses a utopian future, and the greedy mayor Franklyn Cicero. Between them is Julia Cicero, whose loyalties are divided between her father and her beloved. Francis Ford Coppola wrote the screenplay in the early 1980s, but the film was shelved in part due to his financial debts. Preproduction finally began in 2001 after filming 30 hours of second-unit footage and holding a roundtable reading with Paul Newman, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Edie Falco, and Kevin Spacey, but the project was abandoned after the September 11 attacks because a scene in the script (page 166) “predicted” the attacks. The security footage of Cicero entering Caesars’ office is supposed to be two different cameras as indicated by the small text in the upper left corner.
It’s just the same footage reversed and tilted slightly
Hamilton Crassus III: What Do You Think About This Erection I Have? The “Ultimate IMAX Experience” version of the film features a live actor asking questions during the filmed press conference. Referenced on The John Campea Show: Adam Driver will direct Francis Ford Coppola’s new film Megalopolis (2022). My CommitmentWritten by Grace VanderWaalPerformed by Grace VanderWaalCourtesy of Columbia RecordsBy arrangement with Sony Music EntertainmentProduced and orchestrated by Kris Kukul. “Megalopolis” is a film that I wanted to love, mainly because it is an incredibly expensive independent project, written, produced, financed and directed by the legendary Francis Ford Coppola – an auteur who has been planning this work for 40 years and loves it so much so that he personally rated it 10/10 on the Letterboxd film platform.
Coppola does not hesitate to mix in political commentary and reflections on human existence
Plus, the experience of sitting in a nearly empty IMAX theater with only a few other people added to the atmosphere… However, aside from Adam Driver’s Oscar-worthy performance and the stunning visual frames that looked gorgeous on the giant screen, nothing else in this film is worthy of praise. The plot follows the genius scientist Caesar, inventor of the revolutionary material “Megalon”, with which he plans to build a utopian city of the future – “Megalopolis”. This is one of the central themes of the film – the obsession with perfection in a world and society that is far from it. Envy, jealousy, greed and the lust for power are other themes that shape the essence of this work.
The only character I identified with was Caesar, thanks to Adam Driver’s brilliant performance
When I think about the themes of the film, one might think that it is a good film. On the contrary, all these themes are destroyed by the narrative chaos, which in my opinion stems from the director’s pretentious ambition to present an unprecedented “megalomaniac” work of art. The editing and narration are disjointed – the film jumps from one scene to another without coherence, which became tiresome after only fifteen minutes. By the middle of the film, I had completely lost interest in the story and was simply waiting for it to end. Even though most of the actors are well-known, it is difficult to identify with any of the characters – most are superficial and some are completely useless.
The dialogue is mixed, sometimes brilliant, sometimes boring, which makes for a rather uneven experience
It was probably his ability to convey Caesar’s mania, dialogue and emotions that kept me captivated, rather than the depth of the character himself. The cinematography is excellent, and if Coppola had focused primarily on that element, this could have been an extraordinary film.
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