Francis Ford Coppola, one of the greatest living directors, spent $120 million of his own money to make the film he had dreamed of for 50 years, but he has already gone under the knife to ruin his chances of securing a distribution deal. It’s jumping out.
Coppola is an artist who refuses to be controlled, so he must fail.
megalopolis is all about Coppola’s epic sci-fi drama.the man who brought us godfather (1972), Godfather II (1974), conversation (1974), apocalypse of hell (1979), Outsider (1983), Peggy Sue gets married (1986), and Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), he wrote, financed, produced, and directed the biggest gamble of his life.
Even better, he cast Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, and Dustin Hoffman in defiance of fascist Hollywood’s cancel bin.
Isn’t this what art is supposed to be about – dreamers dreaming big, taking risks, stepping out of their comfort zones and pushing everything to the middle of the table to achieve their vision? Defying reality (fucking cape). life?
It’s not Hollywood.
Use left-field trading like hollywood reporter, MacArthur’s Strangling Crusade megalopolis Activity in the crib started early and has not slowed down yet.
Two headlines from January 2023, when the movie was still in production…
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ in jeopardy due to ballooning budget and crew loss
Francis Ford Coppola’s latest movie has a sci-fi flavor megalopolisSources say it is in turmoil. The film, currently in the middle of filming in Atlanta, lost key creative talent over the last week, including its production designer and art director. On top of this, we lost our entire visual effects team in the first half of December.
For many insiders, production is giving a tough situation apocalypse of hell And this is a film in which the iconoclastic 83-year-old director attempts to break Hollywood’s golden rule of never spending your own money.
Yeah, never spend your own money Because the fascist studios that can’t control your sight will involve sycophants in the deal and send you warnings about the price you’ll pay to walk away from the plantation.
The media that claims to side with independent films has also been a good dog.
Some of the production costs for Megalopolis have exploded due to staff resignations.
However, none of these worries are all that surprising.Coppola fired his visual effects supervisor Bram Stoker’s Dracula, hollywood reporter Note. Still, the effect is Dracula is one of the most striking and striking elements of the film. Coppola is also famous for sending cast members into the heart of darkness on film sets. apocalypse of hell. The filming, which took place in the Philippines, had a number of problems, including bad weather, grave robbers bringing a real corpse onto set, and Martin Sheen suffering a near-fatal heart attack.Coppola’s wife Elanor [sic]A documentary captures the whole story Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s ApocalypseThis tells you everything you need to know about the three-year struggle to bring it to the screen.
Coppola and his star Adam Driver, pushed back hard I oppose these reports. And just one year later, megalopolis It appears that the project was completed on schedule and within budget. So the current movement is aimed at preventing Coppola from getting a decent distribution deal…
The self-financed blockbuster is considered too “experimental” and “bad” for the legendary director’s $100 million marketing budget.
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“Everyone is rooting for Francisco and feeling nostalgic,” added another attendee. “But there’s also a business side to things.”
A third participant noted the “conspicuous silence at the end of the film,” but stopped short of dismissing the film as a failure. “Does it wobble and wander and go all over the place? Yes. But it’s really imaginative and says something about our times. I think it’s going to be a small, specialized label. [that picks it up]”
Wasn’t there such a strange adult movie? oppenheimer Who recently came out of nowhere, made almost a billion dollars, and nabbed a bunch of Oscars?
We saw this with Mel Gibson. the passion of christ (2004), co-starring Kevin Costner dances with wolves (1990)…John Cassavetes was never allowed to leave the ghetto and John Sayles and John Waters could no longer finance films…
And it’s not so often that these geniuses work outside the system. It is not their status as “independents” that dooms them to a hate campaign that they claim has already failed.No, their sin is refusing to obey Politically. If Coppola had talked about the brutality of white police officers on “black bodies” and how it is liberating and beautiful to castrate little boys and little girls, we would have seen these headlines. I wouldn’t have done it. But Coppola doesn’t act like that. he is his own man. That can’t happen.
Coppola went through this exact same smear campaign in 1979. Apocalypse of Hell. At that time, he came out on top with one of the best films ever made.attack on megalopolis It feels like the media is looking for an opportunity to start over and clean up. Apocalypse Drop the egg off their smug faces.
One of my most favorite movies (see #63) is a Coppola movie Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988).I also think this may be his most personal film – the story of an outsider and visionary who is destroyed by a fascist government at the behest of fascist big business.
perhaps megalopolis odor. who knows? But before We the People has a say, how many of his $300 million Disney movies (answer: everything) stink without garnering headlines, branding them failures?
If you don’t support me megalopolis, I can no longer call myself a movie buff. Rather, you are broken, compromised, and corrupt.
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