It sure was something. I didn’t even hate it just didn’t really find it grounbreaking either and in a time where most movies are just remakes, reboots and resurrected dead franchises that still sell merch…
I’m actually kinda fine with the crazy old man making a passion project about how stupid and vapid people with money are.
It least it kept some jobs alive and supported his industry.
Coppola self-funded Megalopolis to the tune of $120M. It has a 4.7 on IMDB. It earned about 10% of its total budget.
Every creative swing doesn’t need to be successful, but you probably want to tighten up the script you’ve been working on for literally 40 years if you’re going to invest that kind of money.
Maybe Coppola could have also invested some of that money toward honest people to tell him the truth about how fucking hokey and laughable what he was doing would OBJECTIVELY be seen as.
He went on to praise him for not letting “reason”, “common sense”, or “artistic merit” dictate his actions either.
maybe that was what he was implying in the first place: “A profit seeking entity made this?”
Sounds like Coppola alright
Not every great director is also a great writer and editor. There’s a reason making movies is a team effort.
