Of the many quotations and slogans that flitter through Francis Ford Coppola’s idea-stuffed, open-hearted, unabashedly optimistic “Megalopolis,” one that particularly resonates with the director is: “When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we’re free.”.
Director Francis Ford Coppola poses for portrait photographs for the film 'Megalopolis', at the 77th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 17, 2024. idea-stuffed, open-hearted, unabashedly optimistic “Megalopolis,” one that particularly resonates with the director is: “When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we’re free.”. “To all of the studio big shots, I proved that I’m free and they’re not. Because they don’t dare leap into the unknown. And I do.
In “Megalopolis,” Adam Driver plays Cesar Catilina, a Roman emperor-like figure with the power to stop time in a futuristic New York. He’s an inventor who wants to build a new New York metropolis with a material he’s created called Megalon. In sensibility, he’s more like an artist, though. Cesar quotes “Hamlet,” as well as Emerson, Marcus Aurelius and Ovid. He is, you can't help but notice, a little like Coppola, himself.
Time is much the subject of “Megalopolis,” a movie 40 years in the making which Coppola says he first began seriously thinking about, he says, after completing 1997’s “The Rainmaker.” He wanted to withdraw from his career and devote himself to more experimental pursuits. Driver was particularly invested in Coppola’s project, and the director considers him an important collaborator. Driver, who sat next to Coppola on the terrace, recalled that on the first day of shooting, Coppola told the cast: “We’re not being brave enough.”
But Coppola didn’t hesitate to, again, push his own money into “Megalopolis,” investing some $120 million from his wine business to produce it. He’s been here before. Coppola famously put millions into “Apocalypse Now,” a movie that alsoIs there something in Coppola that always needs to be going for broke?
“Every baby that’s being killed today in Sudan or Palestine — and a lot of them are being killed — it’s a potential Archimedes, a potential Einstein, a potential Mozart,” says Coppola.
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