huge citythe new multi-million dollar film from acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppolais a mystery. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year. After the screening, there were conflicting reports that the film received a 7-minute standing ovation and boos from the audience.
Then the reviews went viral on the internet. huge city The film has been showered with five-star and one-star reviews. Coppola’s fans have hailed it as his greatest achievement, while detractors have called it an incoherent mess. As for Francis Ford Coppola, the legendary director loves the rhetoric, and says it’s all part of Hollywood’s attempt to categorize his indefinable film.
Speaking to Empire magazine, Francis Ford Coppola described how Hollywood executives try to categorize huge city As a certain kind of movie. The mastermind behind classic films like The Godfather and End of the world now He said that huge city This genre cannot be contained or classified on the basis of a single type, and refuses to resort to a standard cinematic structure. The article even points out that some sections huge city It literally requires audience participation. Coppola explained:
“The film industry tries to encourage everyone to believe that there’s only one way a movie can be. It has to have a hero, and then in the first few minutes, it has to have an antagonist. They’re prescribing a formula that they can sell over and over again. So when a movie comes along that doesn’t fit that formula and they don’t think it’s a new formula that can be replicated, they don’t want to do it because they feel like there’s too much risk.”
The Empire story also comes with an exclusive new image of Adam Driver as Cesar Catalina in huge city. See the new image below:
Francis Ford Coppola says Megalopolis is ahead of its time
Francis Ford Coppola's entire career has been filled with stories of the “misunderstood genius.” On the initial releases of his now beloved classic works, The Godfather and End of the world now, Some critics at the time despised the films.These films are now considered timeless masterpieces. The director believes the same will be true of huge city.
During the interview, Coppola compared himself to other famous artists who did not receive the recognition they deserved during their careers, and only found success in later years. The director said:
“As we know, the art that we respect—Bizet’s Carmen, artists like Picasso, Monet, Matisse—is art that was seen at the time as risky or failed. Apocalypse Now is a perfect example of that. When it came out, people said, ‘What the hell is this?’ But they never stopped going to see it. Megalopolis, you can’t call it anything. That’s great. It’s the kind of film I love.”
Latest trailer for huge city The film attempts to capitalize on the misunderstood genius of Francis Ford Coppola. The film opens with bad reviews for his old films, which are now being praised by critics. However, AI in Hollywood strikes again as the reviews in the trailer are revealed to be fake, generated using artificial intelligence by a PR firm. The firm was later fired, and the trailer was removed from all official sources.
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It will be released in theaters on September 27, 2024.
