Making a Mess: a History of Megalopolis

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• IM

  @imtheonewhobroughtthebeans915 · 1 year ago

  Maybe the real Megalopolis was the studios we bankrupted along the way ❤

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• JO

  @joylipumano · 1 year ago

  I’m really sad that Zoetrope Studio failed. It sounded like Francis Ford Coppola wanted a Hollywood studio to not be run by businessmen, and run solely on creative passion, but ironically he had to be a businessman to keep the studio running.

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• CH

  @Chef_Edurad · 1 year ago

  "The Godfather led to the creation of High School Musical" is now my favorite factoid to tell people

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• PI

  @Pillboxing · 1 year ago

  Terry Pratchet said it best. "You can't build paradise for someone else. They have to build it themselves or it's just a prison"

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• IT

  @itstoad5779 · 1 year ago

  This movie feels like proof positive that running out of ideas is less dangerous than running out of people to tell you no

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• CI

  @CinnamonGrrlErin1 · 1 year ago

  "Bold yet fatally flawed" is one of my favorite classes of film. I can forgive a lot of "bad" movies, but boring is the worst cinematic sin imo.

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• SA

  @sabretoo · 1 year ago (edited)

  I'm not an expert on this history, but there seems to be some irony in Coppola and Lucas' relationship: Coppola helped Lucas get started and work more independently, but then Star Wars reframed cinema into moneymaking IPs which limited creative independence for all directors. By substituting studios for franchises, did they become the very thing they hoped to destroy?

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• SW

  @sweeney60 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Megalopolis should have been a ballet or a Cirque du Soleil show. This story is too broad to be a compelling movie, but it might have worked visually in a medium without dialogue.

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• CA

  @CaravelClerihew · 1 year ago

  We often hear about studio meddling messing up movies. I want a series on how studio meddling saved a movie.

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• CA

  @caity613 · 1 year ago (edited)

  You forgot to mention that Coppola said in interviews that he specifically and purposefully cast certain actors who had been "cancelled" to spite people who were "woke" (his words). (I'm assuming why he hired Shia Lebouf, Jon Voigt, and Dustin Hoffmann). Considering his past friendship with Victor Salva, this doesn't surprise me. I have to take strong issue with the idea that Coppola believes in a "better world for children". Just because he supports teaching children about film, etc... when his friend Victor Salva (aged 27 at the time) r*ped a 12 year old boy repeatedly on set, ON FILM, and was arrested, Coppola hired a high powered defense lawyer for him who got Salva a good deal. When asked in an interview why he did so, Coppola said that Salva and the child were "both just a couple of kids". Again, Salva was a 27 year old man. After Salva got out of his short prison sentence, Coppola produced his film Powder. As a film history buff, I can assume you remember the huge controversy behind the release of that film because of the director. The only reason it was released was thanks to Coppola. So, no, I don't believe anyone like that really cares about children.

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• GI

  @gigigalaxy1395 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Coppola reminds me of a stranger who starts to talk to me on a bus. He seem confused that I don't want to hear your personal story that has been in your heart for 40 years.

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• TO

  @tommylakindasorta3068 · 1 year ago

  I get a strong "freedom for me but not for thee" vibe from some of these Coppola anecdotes. Undermining or avoiding unions is a major red flag, for example.

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