Veteran filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola released his dream project Megalopolis last year.
The $120 million sci-fi epic revolved around an architect’s dream of creating a utopia as a regressive, conservative mayor stands in his way.
The film bombed critically and financially.There is almost a deliberate and methodical contempt and vitriol against anything that goes against the grain now. Instead of accepting experimentation, we stand against it.
Instead of fighting it, we defend the status quo of mediocre, cookie-cutter, vanilla junk that we can consume as a second screen experience while we finish dinner.