{"id":620711,"date":"2024-05-16T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-francis-ford-coppolas-ungainly-career-capper\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:30:00","slug":"watch-francis-ford-coppolas-ungainly-career-capper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-francis-ford-coppolas-ungainly-career-capper\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s Ungainly Career-Capper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2724df69cfd\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2724df69cfd\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-francis-ford-coppolas-ungainly-career-capper\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Francis_Ford_Coppolas_Ungainly_Career-Capper%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s Ungainly Career-Capper&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-francis-ford-coppolas-ungainly-career-capper\/#%E2%80%9CFrancis_Ford_Coppolas_Ungainly_Career-Capper%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s Ungainly Career-Capper&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Francis_Ford_Coppolas_Ungainly_Career-Capper%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s Ungainly Career-Capper&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CFrancis_Ford_Coppolas_Ungainly_Career-Capper%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s Ungainly Career-Capper&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In the long-gestating, career-encompassing allegory that is \u201cMegalopolis,\u201d director Francis Ford Coppola puts his name above the title and, in the film\u2019s lone act of modesty, the words \u201cA Fable\u201d beneath it. To call this garish, idea-bloated monstrosity a mere \u201cfable\u201d is to grossly undersell the project\u2019s expansive insights into art, life and legacy. Here, backed by an estimated $120 million of the \u201cGodfather\u201d director\u2019s own money, is the sort of big swing audiences and critics have come to adore him for: a recklessly ambitious, ginormous epic in which humanity\u2019s eternal <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s \u2014 greed, corruption, loyalty and power \u2014 threaten to suffocate a more intimate personal crisis. In this case, a conservative politician and a forward-thinking urban designer clash over the future of a city\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s Coppola\u2019s fortune, and he can spend it as he likes, but grandiose title aside, it\u2019s not at all clear why \u201cMegalopolis\u201d needed to be made at such a large scale. For the press screening before its Cannes Film Festival premiere, he insisted that it be seen on the town\u2019s only Imax screen. And yet, so much of the film is shot in close-up, it would play just fine on iPhone screens (apart from the bizarre moment a man walks out, faces the screen and reads a few lines into a microphone). The cast is first-rate, pairing hot young stars like Adam Driver and Aubrey Plaza with Coppola veterans Laurence Fishburne and Giancarlo Esposito, though their performances are oddly cartoonish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Though it\u2019s been three decades since Coppola\u2019s last triumph, Cannes audiences were hoping he might deliver another \u201cApocalypse Now.\u201d Turns out, world-building \u2014 that invaluable tool of 21st-century Hollywood franchises \u2014 may not be in his wheelhouse. Strangely enough, animation (rather than vfx-heavy live action) might have been a better way to tell such a story, helping to balance a tone that\u2019s Shakespearean at times (including a recitation of Hamlet\u2019s most famous monologue) and downright campy at others, as when a browless Shia LaBeouf quips, \u201cRevenge tastes best while wearing a dress.\u201d Animation would\u2019ve also given Coppola more control over a setting meant to synthesize modern New York, ancient Rome and the forests of Pandora. But as one character repeats in the film: \u201cWhen we leap into the unknown, we prove that we are free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In some corners of the real world (such as China and Saudi Arabia), leaders have sought to create forward-thinking \u201csmart cities\u201d from scratch. But that\u2019s not how thriving metropolises typically come to exist. Instead, they\u2019re built up and burned down, then they\u2019re rebuilt and improved in fits and starts, dragged into modernity \u2014 not without outrage and criticism \u2014 by visionary urban developers like Robert Moses (New York) and Georges-Eug\u00e8ne Haussmann (Paris). Men like Cesar Catilina, the fictional city planner single-handedly trying to drag New Rome into the future, whom Driver plays with the wild-eyed, monomaniacal intensity of Howard Roark (the speechifying architect in Ayn Rand\u2019s \u201cThe Fountainhead\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Like such slow-to-evolve population centers, \u201cMegalopolis\u201d is positively awe-inspiring in some places and an absolute eyesore in others, until you pull back and try to take it all in. Only then can you see the unwieldy way old and new concepts crowd next to another, like an art deco skyscraper squeezed between a cathedral and a Starbucks. The film opens with Catilina stepping off an upper ledge of the Chrysler Building, at which point he commands time to stop. And it does. There, hovering 70-odd stories above the streets of New Rome, he takes a page not from Plutarch (who documented the Catilinarian conspiracy that loosely inspired Coppola), but from the Wachowskis. This time-freezing \u201cMatrix\u201d move \u2014 which im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely follows a Laurence Fishburne-narrated scene-setter \u2014 suggests something far more fantastical than what follows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cMegalopolis\u201d is not so much a sci-fi movie, as some have reported, as it is a sexless \u201cCaligula,\u201d transposed to New Rome. The city looks like modern-day Manhattan, except that men sport bowl cuts and women wear see-through robes, made either of gauze or an innovative, all-purpose building material called Megalon, discovered by Catilina and central to his scheme to revamp the city. In this, he is opposed by \u201cslumlord\u201d-turned-mayor Franklyn Cicero (Esposito). The two first have it out at a high-concept press conference, where most of the film\u2019s key figures \u2014 including Jon Voight as obscenely rich oligarch Hamilton Crassus III and Plaza as manipulative TV personality Wow Platinum \u2014 navigate catwalks dangling amid a scale model of the city. Franklyn plans to erect a casino, whereas Catilina wants to create \u201ca perfect school-city for its people, able to grow along with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    To make these competing visions more interesting, Coppola introduces Franklyn\u2019s adult daughter, Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel), an overexposed party girl who gets serious after witnessing Catilina \u201cpause\u201d a building demolition. (Coppola hatched the idea for the film decades ago, but abandoned an earlier plan to make it after the 9\/11 terrorist attacks.) Much of the film\u2019s iconography and worldview seem frozen in time, just before and after the 2001 tragedy. What might have felt \u201ctoo soon\u201d for that moment now feels exasperatingly out of step with today\u2019s concerns, despite a handful of references to Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 riots (including an angry mob seen waving a Confederate flag).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Cicero isn\u2019t happy that his daughter has taken Catilina\u2019s side in the redevelopment scheme. And he\u2019s even more annoyed when Julia falls in love with his adversary, whom ex-DA Cicero once prosecuted over the death of his wife, still unsolved. That subplot introduces an element of ambiguity to Catilina\u2019s otherwise heroic-seeming character. As the film goes on, it feels that Coppola has projected himself onto both Cicero (whose first name, Franklyn, stems from \u201cFrancis\u201d) and Catilina (the artist-architect whose ambitions recall the director\u2019s costly Zoetrope Studios folly \u201cOne From the Heart\u201d). Family matters to the former, as it clearly does to Coppola, while atoning for infidelity and his \u201cbad boy\u201d ways is part of Catilina\u2019s journey. Their power struggle pales compared to HBO\u2019s brilliant \u201cSuccession,\u201d though the film digs into what makes such time-stoppers tick. \u201cWhen we ask these questions, when we have a dialogue about them, that basically is utopia,\u201d says Catilina. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    At times, Coppola injects bawdy and outrageous moments into his \u201cfable,\u201d which keeps the often-sentimental tale from becoming too self-important. Plaza and LaBeouf bring a satirical edge to their scenes, which recalls a previous Cannes debacle, \u201cSouthland Tales,\u201d in which Richard Kelly cast comic actors and outside-the-box celebrities (like Dwayne Johnson and Justin Timberlake) to heighten the absurdity. By contrast, most of Coppola\u2019s ensemble is composed of \u201cserious\u201d actors, which lends everything a stilted, almost theatrical quality, while angst-meister Driver taps into those deep wells of internal torment he brought to the \u201cStar Wars\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>. When Catilina steps out onto a giant clock face floating high above New Rome, fuming about the obstacles in his way, he looks not unlike the sulky Kylo Ren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And yet, apart from Megalon (which sounds suspiciously like James Cameron\u2019s laughable \u201cUnobtanium\u201d), the sci-fi elements here aren\u2019t so far from reality. At one point, characters refer to a Soviet satellite dumping radioactive debris on the city, and though Coppola depicts such a shower, no further mention is made of the disaster. Perhaps the budget didn\u2019t allow for it, which may also explain why no screentime is dedicated to the construction of Catilina\u2019s elaborate urban development project \u2014 though it certainly seems like Coppola spared no expense. Consider the wedding scene, so different from the one that opens \u201cThe Godfather.\u201d This one transforms Madison Square Garden into a decadent Roman arena, swinging between \u201cBen-Hur\u201d-style chariot races and a Taylor Swift-sounding original song from Grace VanderWaal, \u201cMy Pledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    So many big-city movies are told from ground level. That was Sidney Lumet\u2019s specialty, whereas Coppola takes us to the tippy top of the city\u2019s tallest building, or else looks out from floating I-beams on the glowing horizon, where it\u2019s magic hour all the time. The man made four masterpieces \u2014 \u201cThe Godfather,\u201d \u201cThe Conversation,\u201d \u201cThe Godfather Part II\u201d and \u201cApocalypse Now\u201d \u2014 and then he made a fortune off his vineyards. He\u2019s seen the world from the upper echelons, rubbed his share of elbows, made his share of mistakes. Instead of retiring comfortably with his wealth, Coppola\u2019s opted to bring us this message, which is part mission statement, part mea culpa. \u201cMegalopolis\u201d is anything but lazy, and while so many of the ideas don\u2019t pan out as planned, this is the kind of late-career statement devotees wanted from the maverick, who never lost his faith in cinema. 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