Francis Ford Coppola: “Megalopolis cannot be labelled”

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Director Francis Ford Coppola says: “Megalopolis is unclassifiable. And that’s great. That’s the kind of film I like.”

It feels like no one is involved Big city wants this film to make money, even Francis Ford Coppola, out of the hipster notion that if the film flops, that means none of us “get” it and we’ll all eventually catch up to its genius. A film like this would always have a hard time finding distribution if the reviews weren’t stellar, but the controversial reactions that have accompanied this film since May have not helped the discussion around this film. Then the allegations against Coppola came out, the incident with the release of the first trailer happened, and now Coppola is giving interviews where he doesn’t exactly explain to people why Big city is a film to watch if you’re not a critic or interested in offbeat cinema. Coppola talked about the idea that films can be more than one thing for Empire and the risk that came with making this film as it doesn’t fit anywhere.

“The film industry tries to make everyone believe that there is only one kind of film,” Coppola explained. “It has to have a protagonist and then, in the first few minutes, an antagonist. They give a formula that they can sell over and over again. So when a film comes out that doesn’t fit that formula and they don’t think it’s a new formula that can be repeated, they don’t want to make it because they think the risk is too great.”

There is nothing wrong with crossing boundaries, and Coppola goes on to explain that Big city is something that cannot really be defined. He explained: “As we know, the art we revere – Bizet’s Carmen, artists like Picasso, Monet and Matisse – is art that was considered too risky or a failure in its time.” Apocalypse now is a perfect example. When the movie came out, people said, “What the hell is this?” But they never stopped watching it. With Big cityyou can’t pigeonhole it. And that’s great. That’s the kind of movie I like.” The thing is, most movies back then didn’t have to make hundreds of millions of dollars, so the measure of “success” was if Apocalypse now What came out in 1979 and what came out today are two completely different things.

Movie audiences have changed, not to mention that we’re in a recession and heading into the holiday season when everyone will still be broke. When people can’t spend a lot of money on leisure activities, they want to know what they’re getting into, and this is just an indication of that. Big city cannot be defined and calling it good really isn’t enough. Or it’s not enough to get you out of the red if your budget is $20 million more than the total revenue of the film you’re using as an example.

Big city: Summary, cast list, release date

With Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, DB SweeneyAnd Dustin Hoffman, Big city is a Roman fable set in an imaginary modern America. The city of New Rome is forced to change, leading to conflict between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who wishes to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opponent, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains loyal to a regressive status quo and upholds greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has split her loyalties and forces her to explore what she believes humanity truly deserves. Written, produced, and directed by Francis Ford CoppolaThe film is produced by Fred Roos, Barry HirschAnd Michael Bederman, and executive producer of Anahid Nazarian, Barrie OsborneAnd Darren Demetre. Big city will be in theaters on September 27th.

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