36/17
Coppola abandoned the project altogether in 2007
Tale
The city of New Rome faces a duel between Cesar Catilina, a brilliant artist who advocates for a utopian future, and the greedy mayor Franklin Cicero. Among them is Julia Cicero, whose loyalties are divided between her father and her lover. Francis Ford Coppola wrote the screenplay in the early 1980s, but the film was shelved in part due to his financial debts. Pre-production finally began in 2001, with 30 hours of second unit footage shot and a table read with Paul Newman, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Edie Falco and Kevin Spacey. the project was shelved after the 9/11 attacks because a scene in the script (page 166) "predicted" attacks. and started developing it only in 2019.
Performed by Grace VanderWaal
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, nothing else in this movie is worth praising
Courtesy of Columbia Records Produced and orchestrated by Kris Kukul under arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment. "Megalopolis" is a film I wanted to like, primarily because it’s an incredibly expensive independent project written, produced, financed and directed by the legendary Francis Ford Coppola, an auteur who’s been planning this work for 40 years and loves it. so much so that he personally rated it 10/10 on the movie platform Letterboxd. And the experience of sitting in an almost empty IMAX theater with just a few others added to the atmosphere… But aside from Adam Driver’s Oscar-worthy performance and the amazing visuals that looked beautiful on the big screen. The plot follows the genius scientist Caesar, the revolutionary material "Megalon" with which he plans to build a utopian city of the future – "Megalopolis." This is one of the main themes of the film – the obsession with perfection in a world and society far from it.
When I reflect on the movie’s themes, it can seem like a good movie
Jealousy, jealousy, greed and the desire for power are other themes that form the core of this work. Coppola does not shy away from diving into political commentary and reflections on human existence. On the contrary, all these themes are undermined by the chaos of the narrative, which in my opinion stems from the director’s pretentious desire to present an unprecedented 'megalomaniac' a work of art. Editing and narration are disjointed, the film jumps from one scene to another without coherence, which became boring after fifteen minutes. By the middle I completely lost interest in the story and was just waiting for it to end. While most of the cast is well-known, it’s hard to connect with any of the characters – most of them are shallow and some are completely unnecessary.
The only character I related to was Caesar thanks to Adam Driver’s excellent performance
His ability to convey Caesar’s obsession, dialogue and emotions is probably the reason I was engaged in the first place, rather than the depth of the character itself. The dialogue is a mixed bag – sometimes great, sometimes dull – which made the experience quite uneven. The cinematography is excellent, and if Coppola had focused on this element, it could have been an extraordinary film. In conclusion, I can say that due to its impressive cinematography, I cannot consider "Megalopolis" bad movie, but its terrible narrative structure also makes me unable to recommend it to anyone.