Sounds like a bizarro mishmash of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, The Fountainhead and The Great Gatsby.

I think the "building" represents Coppola's career and the "old guard" is the studio. An artist wants to build something original while the studio tries to control or destroy it.

Starting to actually talk about the movie at 7 minutes.

I’ll give Coppola credit - he’s in his 80s and he goes out selling his wine empire to fund his dream pic - Lucas has 5 billion and sits on his ass and Spielberg just churns subpar out material.

Hearts of Darkness is an excellent documentary; the 1979 version of Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece. Coppola also took on Hollywood with Zoetrope and he has now secured a place for Megalopolis at Cannes where it is entering the competition.

A cynical world just waiting to shit over Francis head. This is the only act i see coming... I really hope the best for him.

It sounds both brilliant and completely nuts at the same time.

Francis posted some books on his Instagram that inspired him and many of them are recent, so I think a lot of this script has been changed.

First time watcher here and i have to say this is such a good video 👍 deserving of a sub

Amazing vid! Honestly was very concerned with Megalopolis but it actually sounds more insane and fun than I thought. Im really just happy that its finally getting released lmao

Thanks so much for this vid!!

This is without a doubt the most interesting and cohesive explanation I've yet heard about Coppola's magnum opus. Kudos are definitely in order. Yet as much as I dearly want his labor of love to be a hit, according to your notes it's polarizing qualities may prevent this from ever happening. As in all films, there are often two conflicting issues, art (the story) and commerce (the profits), and often times "never the twain shall meet." Still, as with millions of other Coppola fans who wait with breathless anticipation, I hope for the best.

Imagine there’s talk happening behind the scenes and George Lucas is convincing Disney to distribute Megalopolis for Francis as lowkey payback for butchering Star Wars.

Sounds fuckin awesome can't wait to see it... Thanks for this.

Very cool idea for a vid -thank you for posting …I’d watch more like this ❤

Great video BTW!

This all reminds me of Synecdoche New York

Banger again as always

Is that a Hundreds of Beavers shirt?! One of my favorite films I’ve seen this year.

Thanks bro!

Nice vid. Thanks

One From The Heart is a beautiful masterpiece.

not only was it written in a different time, but it was written within the context of a dystopian future. so the "problematic" aspects of it aren't flaws. and how plaza's character is described isn't inherently sexual. it's a significant factor, but so is her brilliance. all things considered, it makes sense

Great!

It appears that Forest Whitaker was replaced by Giancarlo Esposito, per IMDB. The soundtrack was composed by Osvaldo Golijov and Grace VanderWaal, should be interesting to hear the music for the film. So Grace VanderWaal not only acts in film, but composed some of the songs as well. FFC on one of his social media accounts praised Grace VanderWaal, Dec. 8, 2023.

The clip that was recently released made it seem like it's a movie about a guy who can control time. Was this present in the script you read?

Really interesting video! Well done!

I always thought Tucker and Rainmaker were Coppola's most entertaining films post Apocalypse Now.

Thank you for this video. Rumble Fish is one of my favorite films. Unpopular Opinion, I know. You have a nice day, Bro.

My man where did you read that script?

Sounds like it has elements of "The Fountainhead".

I feel like Megalon will be compared to something like Vibranium

Nice video, although I stopped it at 21:38. 😀 There have been a lot of articles about _Megapolis_ this week since Coppola is looking for a distributor at Cannes. I’ve been looking for more information and found your video. So, just wanted to say thanks for the background info. From the official photos that have been released the costumes look great but I can’t tell anything else. I’ll be back in a couple weeks to watch the rest of your video.

Why Adam driver though ?

Well, he got an awesome actor to play in it (Adam Driver), so I'm definitely gonna watch it

I have Megalopolis getting a lone cinematography nomination. Does that seem right to you? I feel like the Academy will only go for one sci fi film so it’s between Dune 2, Megalopolis, and Mickey 17

Another man becomes a god fantasy. Sims City with the Fountainhead blended. Looks like a fun trainwreck. This seems unoriginal and tragic for Coppola, his studio, and his reputation.

When I first saw the movie announced I thought it could be similar to “Metropolis”. And after this, I guess it might be like it, but from the perspective of the elite. Interesting

As someone else pointed out, it was both written in a different time and as a dystopia. The problematic elements could be intentional.

More of a TV series than a movie :-)

this sounds like it could be a really good movie. The details of the movie are disturbing at times... but this is not our world. it is a different world of a different time. the rules of their world do not need to be our rules of our world. I have read books that do something similar and the result was amazing. I remember books like "We" and "Brave New World" built their worlds in a non traditional fashin.

Great video! A real gem in a sea of ai voiced click bait nonsense. And this film....wow, some problematic actors for sure lol. But I am intrigued in how the movie will explore these themes.

Great video, Please read ‘Mickey7’ and let us know what’s up with it

Have you read about Victor Salva and his involvement with Coppola?

21:54-21:58 To be fair, so did Alex Jones.

Aubrey Plaza is stunning as a blond, but then again as she got older she got stunning period.

John Voight is a great actor and a great man. What is the complaint?

Looks like this is going to be either a masterpiece or a total junk. I'm getting excited to see it though!

Cicero,! and Caesar. Hamhanded much.!?😂

You haven’t seen Megalopolis yet

Sounds more like he predicted 9/11 and the 2020 riots than jan 6th.

How is her character being described as beautiful misogynistic? Lol

It's not misogynistic to appreciate feminine allure.

I enjoyed your video very much. You are very knowledgeable about movies and this film without talking down to people like myself that don't really know as much. That being said, I will not be seeing this film. Reducing women to menial sex objects just annoys me too bad. I read another review that said that the sexism made the final cut.

YIKES a woman is described as beautiful

IMDB has listed the major actors characters names.

Cuz he was in star wars, man. C'mon, bro!

Was kinda shocked you rated the movie against his past movies before you've seen it.

Of course not every director is in charge of casting their movies. Producers, investors, studios, all interfere. But in this case, Francis is using his own money, so doesn't have to answer to anyone. He could cast, and hopefully did, cast actors because they were genuinely perfect for the roles. Nobody else will do. Reputations and rumours all go out the window if someone is absolutely right. Even a git like Shia LeBeouf.

What you are not aware of in terms of your analysis of this script...and the pedophile cancel culture theme...is that director/writer/producer Victor Salva, a longtime collaborator of Coppola's (see "Jeepers Creepers", it's sequels, and another film that years prior led to Salva's downfall) is a convicted pedophile...but Coppola continued working with him anyway for decades...and made Salva a multimillionaire therein. The question is why? Coppola has not answered said question. Salva also made a pedophile accepting film. What is Coppola trying to say here with his new film...and why is Coppola so close to Salva? Certainly there are other filmmakers that he could have worked with once Salva got exposed as a pedophile during a film that Salva and Coppola were filming.

I didn't know it was sexist to call women "brilliant" and also desired, beautiful and sexy. Perhaps if you ONLY characterized women as desired, beautiful, and sexy, but he clearly didn't. Also: Even simply characterizing women in a script as desired, beautiful and sexy is not sexist if it's done in a context where their male counterparts are, in a corresponding sexist way, reduced to success objects (as opposed to sex objects) where their human value is reduced to their mate value as corresponding to their socio-economic status. That would be balanced (in)equality, as opposed to sexism against women.

It sounds like The Fountainhead plus a lot of disgusting behavior and a large body count. I have never seen Aubrey Plaza look worse with box office poison king Adam Driver. This will be the flop of the decade.

Coppola's version of Ayn Rand's Fountainhead?

megalon = vibranium

Before you got to it, I knew you were gonna say something about pedos. Everything is these days. They're either getting called out or they're calling themselves out. And for some reason, they always seem to be the biggest/best directors. And they allude to this behavior in their films. 🤔🤫 I LOVE films. I'm heartbroken by what my research suggests though.

if your screenplay is pretty much the film, and i think it very well might be. The one thing that I think you might need to do before "reviewing it" is read about Greek and Roman "movies".. er plays and myths from that age. If being woke and anti woke within a 20 year span triggers your sensilblities and those of the tik toc gen, then go watch Caligula or the last days of sodom ;) films that shocked in the 70s.;) anyhow. i see lots of parallels to The Foluntainhead and Metropolis as well. you should check them out. ones a sci fgi film. THE OG sci fi film. the other had a film made, but is Ayn Rands better fable

Anti Woke crowd, jesus, can't anyone just enjoy or mull over an interesting, new, bizarre film from a classic director like Coppola.

Great video but you’re so off base about cancel culture it’s not even close lmao.

Art revolving around "anti-cancel-culture" is the same as "anti anti- cancel culture", it depends of the context and how it's executed. When unfunny hacks like Bill Maher or Jerry Seinfeld do bits on the subject - it's cringe inducing, however when Dave Chappell does it - despite being pretty damn controversial, (to say the least), it's tolerable due to the fact that it's usually pretty hilarious most of the time. Which is also the case when it comes to chud-dunking or even possibly worse. By worse i mean, that there are fewer instances of it that aren't pretensions and cringe-worthy. That's due to the fact that it's been done to death, but more importantly it also to me feels like low-hanging fruit. There is one area of anti-cancel culture that is extremely relevant currently, the being the crackdown on Palestinian-solidarity protestors including the doxing of students and the black-list circulating among corporate elites in fields like banking and law-offices seeking to prevent the hiring of students who've been identified as having participated in these protests on Ivy-League college campuses post October 7th. Pro-Palestine activists have been the original victims of cancel culture, dating back before the concept had even came into usage in common parlance, (side note: aint it funny how hacks like the formentioned Maher and Seinfeld not only have nothing to say about those people being "canceled," they are the ones who are in fact actually advocating for them to be canceled). So art revolving around that would be timely and sorely needed. Anyways, sorry for the rant, like i said - it all depends on the context and the execution. So based on the specific events you discussed that are potentially gunna be in this film that are meant to serve as commentary on cancel-culture... yeah.... I'm not sure how well that's gunna land lol

Watched a big chunk of your video not the whole thing… But learn how to pronounce the directors name. It’s Coppola… Cope-a-la. Not cop. And that’s when I met him and the people around him, pronounced his name.

lol this beta.

Ugh why is Shia Labeouf in this? Why can't we get new actors or even middle of the road actors? I don't even fully care about his shit I just want some new faces. Also I do care it's just not why I was initially pissed.

Zzzzz

This movie should never had been made! It’s an abomination! You’ll chuckle at the stupidity! Zero subtext! All on the nose! It’s like a bad AI screenplay!