Mike Figgis’s documentary takes us on the collection of the supervisor’s interest task to give as raw and intimate a picture of an auteur at the workplace as we’ve had for a long time
‘ Do you recognize why I’m doing this film? What do I leave it?” a frustrated Francis Ford Coppola asks Shia LaBeouf on the set of Megalopolis. “I do not get money. I don’t obtain popularity; I already have popularity. I don’t get Oscars, I currently have Oscars. What do I get that I desire?” LaBeouf eventually gives up. “Fun!” Coppola states. “I wan na enjoy!”
Making Megalopolis doesn’t resemble most individuals’s idea of enjoyable as Coppola tries to confine stars, crew, outfits, locations, lavish collections and special impacts all in solution of a vast sci-fi-meets-ancient-Rome tale that nobody totally recognizes. Throw in the fact that the film-maker invested $120m of his very own cash on the interest job by selling component of his wine making company to raise funds, having actually spent almost 50 years attempting to get it made, which the production was beleaguered with hold-ups, technical frustrations and bust-ups, and you feel this is more than a lot of 83-year-olds need to have to go via.
Source: The Guardian