50/29
It’s the same shot turned and slightly tilted
Tale
The city of New Rome faces a duel between Cesare Catilina, a brilliant artist who advocates for a utopian future, and the greedy mayor Franklin Cicero. Between them is Julia Cicero, whose loyalty is 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. Pre-production finally began in 2001 after 30 hours of second unit filming and table readings 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 of the 9/11 attacks, because the script scene (page 166) "predicted" attacks. Coppola abandoned the project entirely in 2007 and did not begin development again until 2019. The security footage of Cicero entering Caesars office should be two different cameras as indicated by the small text in the upper left corner. Cesar Catilina: *Do you* want to help me?
Julia Cicero: Yes
And, well, I… well, I want to learn. Cesar Catilina: And you think one year of… medical school entitles you to plow through the riches of my Emersonian mind? Julia Cicero: Gives me the right? Caesar Catilina: Yes.Julia Cicero: [scoffs] Gives me the right? Caesar Catiline: Yeees!Julia Cicero: Gives me the right?
And literature, and
Caesar Catiline: YEEEEEE!Julia Cicero: You have no idea about me! You think I’m nothing, just company? Cesar Catilina: No, nothing, but I reserve my time for people who can think. About science. architecture and art. Do you find me cruel, selfish and insensitive? I’m working regardless of what happens to either of us.
Julia Cicero: Good!
So go back to cluuuub, stick it out and stalk the people you enjoy. I will. Caesar Catilina: Come back when you have more time!. "The ultimate IMAX experience" the film version features a live actor asking questions during a taped press conference. Referenced in The John Campea Show: Adam Driver To Lead Francis Ford Coppola's New Film Megalopolis (2022). My Promise Written by Grace VanderWaal Performed by Grace VanderWaal Courtesy of Columbia Records In arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment Produced and orchestrated by Kris Kukul. "Megalopolis" is a film I wanted to like, primarily because it’s an incredibly expensive indie project, written, produced, financed and directed by the legendary Francis Ford Coppola – an auteur who planned this work for 40 years and loves it so much that he personally rated it a 10 /10 on the movie platform Letterboxd.
Envy, jealousy, greed and lust for power are other themes that shape the essence of this work
Moreover, the experience of sitting in an almost empty IMAX theater with only a few others added to the atmosphere… However, apart from Adam Driver’s Oscar-worthy performance and the stunning visuals that looked beautiful on the huge screen, nothing else in this film is worth praising. The plot follows the genius scientist Cesar, 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 the world and society far from it. Coppola does not shy away from getting involved in political commentary as well as thinking about human existence. When I think about the themes of the movie, one might think that this is a good movie. On the contrary, all these themes are destroyed by the narrative chaos, which in my opinion stems from the director’s pretentious ambition to portray an unprecedented 'megalomaniac' work of art. Editing and narrative are disjointed – the film jumps from scene to scene without coherence, which became tiresome after only fifteen minutes.