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Did the Megalopolis Trailer Make Up All Those Movie-Critic Quotes?

None of those negative quotes from Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, Vincent Canby, or Roger Ebert appear in their reviews. What is the intention here?

It’s an epic vision of the corruption of America.” The alleged quote attributed to her in this trailer — that The Godfather is “diminished by its artsiness” — is nowhere to be found in either of her(glowing) reviews of the first two films. If anything, Kael felt that Coppola’s refinement and skill — his artistry, in other words — greatly improved Mario Puzo’s admittedly trashy source material. Did the people who wrote and cut this trailer just assume that nobody would pay attention to the truthfulness of these quotes, since we live in a made-up digital world where showing any curiosity about anything from the past is seen as a character flaw?

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