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It’s the same shot turned and slightly tilted
Line of Events
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.
You can see every cent on the screen
Hamilton Crassus III: What do you think of this skeleton I have?. "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. That’s a good thing in Francis Ford Coppola’s latest and very likely last film. Between the cast, the costumes and the set, which reimagines New York as the New Rome, you can see it all.
And don’t forget the quotes from Marcus Aurelius
The only question this raises is why did 42nd Street from Third Avenue to Times Square remain unchanged and what about the movie theaters from 7th to 8th Avenue? Even so, it’s natural to be skeptical of what is essentially an admirable Robert Moses biopic. . Especially when it was apparently written by Ayn Rand as a response to METROPOLIS and then handed over to Abel Gance after she convinced him to make a movie about Julius Caesar instead of Napoleon. In short, it is a very scholarly film. To appreciate the details, one must read extensively in Roman history, watch many silent films, and be familiar with New York in the second half of the 20th century, including the middle- and upper-class escape of the 1950s through the 1980s.
Performances are good
Through the vagaries of my upbringing and the chaotic course of self-education, I can claim these things. So. What do I think? However, the question remains, since I work on so many films these days, who did Coppola make this film for. He claims to have spent around $140 million of his own money on the feature. As a general rule of thumb, a movie needs to make roughly twice its production cost to break even.
I don’t even believe that this movie will destroy him
I can’t see a big enough audience for this to generate $300,000,000 in tickets and secondary rights. It’s just too long, a shaggy dog story about love and artistic vision being more important than anything else. This, of course, wouldn’t be the first time Coppola let his artistic ambitions explode; although APOCALYPSE NOW is claimed to have made its money back in the end, I doubt it if you add in the interest charges. Certainly ONE FROM THE HEART was a disaster, and he spent several decades making nice commercial films from other sources to get by and let the wineries and restaurants bring in his money. Surely there are enough moviegoers to make the net loss from this bearable. All of which goes a long way toward answering my question about who Coppola’s audience was.
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