Usually, we might ask y’all to respectfully maintain your memes away from Francis Ford Coppola. The person is 85 years outdated, the person is sometimes cantankerous, the person has his personal issues to fret about: Don’t bug him along with your numerous on-line jokes. Nonetheless, there’s one meme we might genuinely wish to see Coppola react to, and, wouldn’t you realize it, it’s the primary one which got here up in a latest, very temporary AMA the Megalopolis director carried out on Twitter on Friday. To wit: How typically does Francis Ford Coppola take into consideration the Roman Empire?
“Quite a bit” was the delightfully unsurprising reply, provided that Coppola’s new movie Megalopolis is a transparent outgrowth of an obsession with the autumn of the Roman Republic, full with most characters taking names from basic figures of the interval. (Besides, after all, for Aubrey Plaza’s Wow Platinum, who’s as a substitute, as Coppola additionally revealed within the AMA, named after a “southern younger woman who advised me her nice grandmother was so lovely that her identify advanced as “WOW”.) To be honest to Coppola, it’s clear that, sure, he has thought lots about Rome, as evidenced by his reply to that preliminary query being essentially the most detailed of the bunch by a good margin:
The Roman Republic served as the instance for my nation America and its establishments, and was the inspiration for Megalopolis. My fascination with the Roman Republic is predicated on the battle between the political events throughout which the curiosity of the Republic yielded to the ambitions of some highly effective males who espoused the goals of political events to determine their very own fortunes and authority by relying upon armed forces to realize these ends, dealing the ultimate blow to a structure already tottering to its fall.
(Technically, that’s extra “how a lot do you concentrate on the Roman Republic?” however we’re hoping the Amalgamated Council Of Center-Aged Males You Completely Give Civil Struggle Books To As Presents will look on the slight irregularity with leniency.)
Elsewhere within the AMA, Coppola additionally named Rumblefish because the film he’s most happy with having made, and promoted his Letterboxd, as a result of, hey: Man’s gotta hustle.
