Unveiling a World of Endless Possibilities: Francis Ford Coppola’s Vision for the Next Generation

MORELIA. – Sitting in one of the rooms of the Matamoros Theatre, Francis Ford Coppola sang just oncebolero that our Toy GoldAgustín Lara.

Patiently, he waited for us to take our places. The legend behind it The godfather the Apocalypse Now I really wanted to talk.

I only had one wife in my life,” the 85-year-old filmmaker tells Excelsior with a friendly tone and a smile. Last April, Francis lost his wife, documentary filmmaker Eleanor Coppola. They were married for 61 years.

He has five Oscars in his cabinets and, unlike other personalities, he came to the Morelia Film Festival to promote his ambitious film Megalopolisavailable in theaters starting this Thursday.

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Francis, who was born in Detroit, has wanted and thought about history for 40 years. He sold his vineyards to finance a production that cost 120 million dollars out of his own pocket.

For me it is very important that audiences, especially younger ones, see Megalopolisbecause it is about a world they are going to inherit very soon. In general, films try to facilitate your entry and open the door for you to live a certain experience, but, sometimes, you have to make that entrance difficult for them, one that they have not reached. This entrance doesn’t have the typical themes that Marvel or monster movies can have, which I also like, but the door I want them to enter through is one with an interior they’ve never visited .

So this Thursday, when the film is released, I want you to cross over, to see what happens, to experience, to witness a story that you haven’t seen from the front, because you are going to have an experience that is going to be very useful for you to watch the world that awaits them. It will be worth it and it will be a wild experience,” said Francis Ford Coppola.

Today he will receive the Artistic Excellence Award from the competition led by Daniela Michel in recognition of more than 60 years of experience, as well as the UNAM Film Archive Medal. And he will also present some of his feature films, such as the trilogy of The godfathera project that established him in the 1970s as one of the most respected, award-winning and award-winning directors in the global industry along with other colleagues such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.

When people ask me to name the five best films ever made and they expect me to mention one of my films, I tell them: ‘Ask me about the thousands of films that have been made ‘, because at least 50 masterpieces have been made in the silent era.

Cinema has a large number of great pieces and my work is possible thanks to those giants who came before us. They made films that I saw, at the time, inspired me and made me want to be a filmmaker. So my biggest hope is that young filmmakers see my films and want to make their own,” said Ford Coppola.

The father of director Sofia Coppola and uncle of Nicolas Cage is no stranger to the new generations and is aware of the trend his latest film has created. Megalopolis on social networks, where it has become a success and a reference open to memes, like what people have done from a sequence where Adam Driver, his protagonist, tells Nathalie Emmanuel, his co- star, “Go back to the cluuuub .”

In MegalopolisDriver, who plays Caesar Catilina, has an argument with Julia Cicero (Emmanuel), for whom he feels a great attraction and says: ‘Do you think I am cruel, selfish and insensitive? I am! I work without caring what happens to us. So go back to the club (Go back to the club), bare it all and stalk the kind of people you like.’

Because Driver stretches the word club and performs a special hand movement, it has become a meme milestone on the web thanks to the addition of some songs.

We all have our favorite parts. You could ask me which parts of certain movies are my favorites and I could tell you. “Art is a very personal experience that changes your life and that’s good, because it helps you see the truth of the world that many people don’t see, art tries to illuminate life and that’s why the I made this film,” he said. the director too Dracula.

The director who was born on April 7, 1939 is questioned if the industry will continue to get more of him and if he will direct other projects soon.

That’s what I think. I’m feeling good, I’m healthy and I’ve just finished a script that’s just as big and ambitious as this one (Megalopolis). I always tell myself that this is about having fun, having a good time, and I like to have a good time on shoots,” Francis expresses with a huge smile.

The director wore brown corduroy pants, a beige shirt, a green button down jacket, and brown shoes which came with two different socks, one lemon green with yellow details and the other black with colored dots.

Megalopolis It has raised just over 11 million dollars, of the 120 it cost.

The plot of the film takes place in New Rome, a fictional city in the United States, where Caesar Catilina lives, an artistic genius who seeks a utopian future, as well as Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who sticks by what has already been done. has been established and has a daughter, Julia, who by chance ends up working for Caesar and questions his loyalty and love.

The film stars Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire and Jason Schwartzman.

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