The spot for Francis Ford Coppola’s self-funded $120 million epic Megalopolis has been pulled. Is it standard chaos or something more?
has been pulled by US studio Lionsgate following claims that the derisive quotes from critics it contained were fakes.
To illustrate the point, the screen is then filled with a cascade of quotes from film critics in response to Coppola’s earlier works.The point of the round-up of hit jobs is both to remind audiences of Coppola’s spectacular back catalogue and to illustrate that the critics, some of the biggest names in the business from a time when the views of a film critic, have repeatedly misjudged Coppola’s work at the moment of its first appearance, only for time to judge it much more favourably later.
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