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Cesar Catilina: *You* wanna help me?Julia Cicero: Yeah

Tale

The city of New Rome faces the duel between Cesar Catilina, a brilliant artist in favor of an Utopian future, and the greedy mayor Franklyn Cicero. Between them is Julia Cicero, with her loyalty divided between her father and her beloved.. Francis Ford Coppola wrote the script in the early 1980s, but the film was kept on the back-burner partially due to his financial debts. Pre-production finally began in 2001 after filming 30 hours of second unit footage and holding table read with Paul Newman, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Edie Falco, and Kevin Spacey, but the project was scrapped after the September 11 attacks, because a scene from the script (page 166) "predicted" the attacks. Coppola fully abandoned the project in 2007, and didn't begin developing it again until 2019.. The security video of Cicero entering Ceasars office is supposed to be two different cameras as indicated by the small text in the upper left corner. It is just the same footage flipped and slightly tilted..

And, well, I

well, I want to learn.Cesar Catilina: And you think one year of… medical school entitles you to plow through the riches of my Emersonian mind?Julia Cicero: Entitles me?Cesar Catilina: Yes.Julia Cicero: [scoffs] Entitles me?Cesar Catilina: Yeees!Julia Cicero: Entitles me?Cesar Catilina: YEEEEEES!Julia Cicero: You have no idea about me! You think I am nothing, just a socialite?Cesar Catilina: No, not nothing, but I reserve my time for people who can think. About science. And literature, and… architecture and art. You find me cruel, selfish and unfeeling?

Francis Ford Coppola is doing a what if

I am. I work without caring what happens to either of us. So go back to the cluuuub, bear it all, and stalk the kind of people that you enjoy.Julia Cicero: Fine! I will.Cesar Catilina: Come back when you have more time!. The "Ultimate IMAX Experience" version of the film features a live actor asking questions during the filmed press conference.. Referenced in The John Campea Show: Adam Driver To Lead Francis Ford Coppola's New Film Megalopolis (2022). My PledgeWritten by Grace VanderWaalPerformed by Grace VanderWaalCourtesy of Columbia RecordsBy arrangement with Sony Music EntertainmentProduced and Orchestrated by Kris Kukul.

That is a fun moment

What if the Roman empire spread across the globe into the 21st century? Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver) is the imperial architect who wants to tear down a large part of New Rome and build Megalopolis using his new building material Megalon. Opposing him is Mayor Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito) who has a long history with Cesar. In between the two men is Cicero's daughter Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel).Francis Ford Coppola is bringing his pet project to the big screen. One can't dispute his big ambition. I was into the movie up to the non-virgin reveal. I never really got to care about these characters.

They leave me cold

In a way, I see the Ayn Rand comparison and I feel the same way about all of these works. I don't care about any of the characters. I don't care about new steel and I don't care about new building material. I am fascinated with Coppola trying to do the surreal stuff, but most of this leaves me cold.