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Francis Coppola & Adam Driver On “The Death Of Journalism & The Death Of The Hollywood Studio System”; How ‘Megalopolis’ Reception Might Evolve Like ‘Apocalypse Now’ Did


Francis Coppola & Adam Driver On The Slow Death Of Journalism & Studios & How 'Megalopolis' Reception Will Evolve Like 'Apocalypse Now' Did

Francis Ford Coppola and Adam Driver sit for ‘Megalopolis’ InterviewDeadline EXCLUSIVE: In an interview as crackling with ideas as their new film Megalopolis, director Francis Coppola and Adam Driver discuss the power of films whose meaning changes in the minds of moviegoers in multiple viewings over time. Now a classic, that Heart of Darkness adaptation wrapped in the chaotic backdrop of Vietnam, was in its earliest showings considered as much a hot mess of radical ideas and imagery as Megalopolis. He reveals here that some of that imagery made it into Megalopolis for posterity sake, but Coppola said there was nothing that would bring pain to survivors of the worst attack on American soil.

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