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Between them is Julia Cicero, with her loyalty divided between her father and her beloved
Narrative
The city of New Rome faces the duel between Cesar Catilina, a brilliant artist in favor of a Utopian future, and the greedy mayor Franklyn Cicero. Francis Ford Coppola wrote the script in the early 1980s, but the film was kept on the back-burner partially due to his financial debts. Pre-production finally began in 2001 after filming 30 hours of second unit footage and holding table read 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 scrapped after the September 11 attacks, because a scene from the script (page 166) "predicted" the attacks.
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Coppola fully abandoned the project in 2007, and didn't begin developing it again until 2019.. Throughout the movie there are many moments where the hand movements jump between cuts.. The "Ultimate IMAX Experience" version of the film features a live actor asking questions during the filmed press conference..
I so desperately wanted to be part of the minority who enjoyed Megalopolis
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The problem is the execution of those ideas and the dialogue that connects them together
There's no doubt that the actual bundle of ideas that make up Francis Ford Coppola's "masterpiece" are incredibly unique and interesting. I am obsessed with the idea of New Rome and all these quasi Roman characters plotting against each other like a Shakespearean Game of Thrones. But listening to Adam Driver give a quote from Hamlet and then immediately saying "in the clurrrrb" and Jon Voight saying "boner" are just unforgivable.
I roughly understand the plot of Megalopolis, but I cannot even begin to fathom why any character does anything they say or do
The amount of talent that was wasted on what has to be one of the most beautiful, visually stunning backdrops, is disrespectfully confusing. With all of that being said, I will probably cause myself to suffer an additional viewing of Megalopolis, just to be sure I'm sure the experience was so exhausting.. Check out our list of exciting new movies from this year' ;s film festivals, including Venice, TIFF, the New York Film Festival, and more.