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The Franchise Recap: A Bridge Too Far
Will Martin Scorsese ever live down comparing comic-book movies to theme park rides in an interview once? No. Probably not.
It’s unhelpful for the below-the-line lads and lasses on The Franchise that this occurs not at the studio, where the budgetary consequences of their director going AWOL might be relatively contained, but on the day of a mega-expensive location shoot in Armenia. From the start of the episode, it’s clear that Eric has gone a bit Francis Ford Coppola during Apocalypse Now — mania induced by the prolonged creative compression of the Tecto shoot, chronic hiccups, and the inability to find a screen-acting goat that can do comedy. Brühl continues to nail Eric’s tragicomic balance: his performance is at once a funny caricature of a certain breed of obnoxious male filmmaker and, more sympathetically, the portrait of a guy who has unwittingly stumbled into a Sisyphean task from which he will never, ever escape.)
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