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Coppola abandoned the project entirely in 2007 and only resumed development in 2019
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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 a scene in the script (page 166) ” the attacks.
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Vague feelings. Megalopolis is an epic and silly mix of different movies (Babylon, Casanova, Moulin Rouge, Cabaret, Batman, Hudsucker Proxy and Hollywoodland miniseries, etc.). Coppola recycles the styles of many famous directors such as Luhrmann, Chazelle, Burton, Aronofsky, Fellini and Visconti. His own voice is somewhere in the passing details, which unfortunately reminds me of his weaker films like “One from The Heart”. Then the Megalopolis fantasy would have been more effective and created a wow feeling.
There were thoughtful and beautiful ideas
And what is the point of stupid and unjustified theatricality, or should I say just theater? Personally, I hate this kind of approach that makes Baz Luhrmann puke in my mouth. This eats away at the serious credibility of the story. Based on this, there are many loose moments for no reason: hat dropping, strange dance posing during the first scene and the atmosphere in general. Still, I liked the last quarter of the movie.
with his relationships
The ending was good too. The story is quite good with ancient Rome etc. And without the constant meddling, the film might have had a chance to be a decent coming-of-age tale. Unfortunately, too much of it is eaten up by messy and restless theatrical silliness. See a list of exciting new films from this year’s film festivals, including Venice, TIFF, New York Film Festival and more.
