30/20
Same shot reversed and slightly tilted
Chronology
The city of New Rome faces a duel between Cesar Catilina, a brilliant artist who preaches a utopian future, and the greedy mayor Franklyn Cicero. Among them is Julia Cicero, whose loyalty is 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 financial debts. Pre-production finally began in 2001, after 30 hours of second unit footage was shot and a table read featuring Paul Newman, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Edie Falco and Kevin Spacey. the project was canceled after the 9/11 attacks because of a scene in the script (page 166) " the attacks. Coppola abandoned the project entirely in 2007 and only resumed development in 2019. The security video of Cicero entering Ceasars office is said to be from two different cameras, as indicated by the small text in the upper left corner.
You can see every cent on the screen
Hamilton Crassus III: What do you think of this bone I got? The "Ultimate IMAX Experience" In the film version, a live actor asks questions at the filmed press conference. Link on The John Campea Show: Adam Driver hosts Francis Ford Coppola’s new film Megalopolis (2022). My Pledge Written by Grace VanderWaal Performed by Grace VanderWaal courtesy of Columbia Records. By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment Produced and arranged by Kris Kukul. That’s good in Francis Ford Coppola’s latest and probably last film. From the cast, to the costumes, to the set that reimagines New York City as the New Rome, you can see everything.
until the 1980s
The only question this raises is why 42nd Street from Third Avenue to Times Square was left untouched, and what about the movie theaters on 7th and 8th avenues? Still, it’s natural to be skeptical about what is essentially an admirable biography of Robert Moses. . Especially when Ayn Rand apparently wrote it in response to METROPOLIS and then handed it over to Abel Gance after he convinced him to make a movie about Julius Caesar instead of Napoleon. And don’t forget the quotes from Marcus Aurelius. Overall, this is a very learned film. To understand the details, you need to read a lot of Roman history, see a lot of silent films, and know about the New York City of the second half of the 20th century, including the flight of the middle and upper classes from the 1950s .
What do I think?
I can say these things through the vagaries of my upbringing and the chaotic process of self-education. That way. The performances are fine. However, the question I hear about so many movies these days is who Coppola made this movie for. He reportedly spent about $140 million of his own money on the feature. The general rule of thumb is that a film needs to make about twice its production costs to break even. I don’t see a large enough audience for this to generate $300,000,000 in tickets and secondary rights.
I don’t think this movie will ruin him either
It’s just too long, a shaggy dog story about love and artistic vision above all else. Of course, this wouldn’t be the first time Coppola has let her artistic ambitions run wild; although they claim that APOCALYPSE NOW eventually got their money back, I doubt that when you add in the interest charges. It was certainly a disaster and spent a couple of decades making well commercial films from other sources to dig their way out and let the wineries and restaurants make money. There are certainly enough movie fans around to make the net loss bearable. All of this goes a long way toward answering the question of who Coppola’s target audience was.