"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
Críticas de Megadoc de Mike Figgis, que se ha proyectado hoy. Está recibiendo reseñas muy positivas.
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"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
Esto es brutal:
Megadoc is a good documentary—because Megalopolis is a bad film. What begins as a hopeful chronicle of an ambitious production gradually turns into the portrait of a crew worn down by chaos and disillusionment. The most revealing and compelling moments come from Mike Figgis himself, a silent observer who occasionally steps in front of the camera to confess—almost guiltily—that part of him is glad every time something goes wrong on set, because it makes his documentary more interesting. By the end, I almost want to watch Coppola’s Megalopolis again. Almost.
"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
Me hace mucha gracia ver el desdén con el que muchos "críticos" y demás ven siempre todo lo que tiene que ver con este proyecto de Coppola. Parece que la opinión ortodoxa sobre la película es única e inmutable desde el principio (negativa, por si hay dudas) y cualquier noticia que "reviva" el proyecto se mira con ese desdén que comentaba. Incluso si un documental como éste, que parece destacable tanto por sí mismo, como por lo que documenta, habla de Megalopolis, pues se alaba de forma vehemente el documental... pero sin olvidarse de despreciar, nuevamente, la película de Coppola; no vaya a ser que alguien crea que se desalinean del criterio único...
Puede que cuando veamos el documental nos sorprenda a todos, pero no parece que ningún participante de Megalopolis se arrepienta de ello, y por lo que sabemos hasta ahora, lo de que sea the portrait of a crew worn down by chaos and disillusionment suena más a berrinche y proyección que a algo mínimamente objetivo; pero el tiempo dirá...
Tanto por el poso que está dejando la película (que demuestra el documental de Figgis) como su presencia continua en los medios (por la terquedad de Coppola), algunos no pueden aceptar que Megalopolis se esté convirtiendo, lenta pero inexorablemente, en una película bigger than life.
Charrán
Del ár. hisp. *šarrál 'vendedor de jureles'.
1. adj. Persona poco fiable, aprovechada o que actúa con picardía o engaño. Sinvergüenza, caradura o estafador.
2. adj. coloq. Dicho de una persona: Que se comporta de forma similar o que evoca al cineasta James Gunn.
Te daba un beso ahora mismo si te tuviese delante, leche.
Muthur, ten en cuenta lo siguiente: toda la critica se siente legitimada en su postura respecto a Megalopolis, y por eso no se bajan de la burra, por el hecho de que el público también ha puesto verde la pelicula, al menos aparentemente: en redes sociales, reddit, y demás comunidades online, el cachondeito que se traen con el film es considerable, y ello continua a día de hoy. Se rien de ella, hacen memes y demás. Entonces creo que todo esto (el documental, el tour, el anuncio de un corte extendido que parece ser llegara a salas), lo ven como que Coppola no quiere asumir la realidad, como muestras de vanidad de un viejo millonario en su torre de marfil. La terquedad que comentabas lo ven como algo reprochable.
PD: De todas formas, lo que comenta esa reseña no tiene por qué ser falso. Esta documentado que Coppola despidió a muchísima gente durante la producción de la película, y que tuvieron broncas gordas con el antes de llegar a ese punto. Algunas de esa personas, como recordarás, criticaron posteriormente a Coppola -de manera anónima, eso si- en el infame reportaje que publicó The Guardian hablando de que Coppola fumaba marihuana en el set e iba todos los días como pollo sin cabeza.
Última edición por Branagh/Doyle; 29/08/2025 a las 20:10 Razón: Me comí un trozo
"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
Charrán
Del ár. hisp. *šarrál 'vendedor de jureles'.
1. adj. Persona poco fiable, aprovechada o que actúa con picardía o engaño. Sinvergüenza, caradura o estafador.
2. adj. coloq. Dicho de una persona: Que se comporta de forma similar o que evoca al cineasta James Gunn.
Los que desmintieron tajantemente todo eso después fueron los actores, no el equipo técnico. Igual en el documental vemos a algún foquista, o algún carpintero, cagandose en la madre que pario a Coppola y diciendo que aquello es un sindiós de planificación y que está chocho perdido.
A saber.
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"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
Pero Muthur, tienes razón en que la prensa sigue a su rollo, atacando todo lo que tenga que ver con el proyecto.
Por ejemplo, tomemos este artículo, publicado ayer mismo. Si leemos el titular, tiene muy mala pinta, ¿no?. Pero si leemos el artículo completo con detenimiento, nos daremos cuenta de que han citado palabras textuales de Aubrey Plaza fuera de contexto para construir una narrativa que no existe y dejar en mal lugar a Coppola.
Última edición por Branagh/Doyle; 29/08/2025 a las 22:04 Razón: Errata
"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
Jojojo, que ganas de ver esto:
Mike Figgis calls his behind-the-scenes chronicle “Megadoc,” but he might as well have titled it “LaBeouf vs Coppola.”
The film, which premiered at Venice yesterday, peels back the curtain on Coppola’s $120M gamble, “Megalopolis,” referred to by some online hoodlums as “Megaflopolis.”
The doc seems to delight in the chaos. The logistics, before, and during production, must have been a total nightmare to experience for cast and crew. Coppola, financing his own dream project, comes off as a self-aggrandizing weirdo, but the scenes most will be taking away from the doc is the epic tug-of-war between Coppola and Shia LaBeouf.
LaBeouf, at first in total glee over being cast in Coppola’s film — since, in his own words, he had become “Hollywood persona non grata” — is both a catastrophe for ‘Megalopolis’ and a total gift for Figgis and “Megadoc.”
He says it himself: he had no business being in this movie, describing his status in Hollywood as “nuclear.” He wasn’t exaggerating. The arrests, the lawsuits, the meltdowns. We learn that Jon Voight, part guardian angel, slipped LaBeouf into Coppola’s ensemble, and suddenly the outcast had a role.
LaBeouf arrives trembling, convinced he’d be fired within days, and then immediately starts fighting with Coppola.
The actor who least belongs there is also the one who gives Figgis the richest material. LaBeouf frets over blocking, whines about tape marks on the floor “inhibiting” his acting, and turns every Coppola demand into an epic argument. Coppola, tries to persuade, then pleads, then finally explodes. “I know what I’m talking about!” he furiously shouts. LaBeouf refuses, Coppola storms to his trailer to direct the rest of the day’s shoot by remote control. It’s delightful and farcical Cinema verité.
There are apologies, too, the kind that arrive in the middle of the night. Coppola sends an email, acknowledging LaBeouf’s performance while confessing they’ll never see the world the same way. LaBeouf, half-amused, half-wounded, recounts the story to Figgis in melancholic mode. He knows he was trouble. He believes the end result is that he gave Coppola something the film couldn’t have sparked otherwise.
Watching “Megadoc,” you don’t quite know whether to laugh or to wince. Figgis doesn’t shy away either. He seems to be shooting everything. However, it’s the LaBeouf and Coppola feud that steals the show, much like “Megalopolis” itself, it’s overblown, maddening, absurd, ambitious, and impossible to look away from.
"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
Pues ya tengo casi tantas ganas de ver el documental, como la película en sí misma en su momento...
LaBeouf es un personaje en sí mismo allí por donde pasa, seguro que hay material notable en el documental.
Por problemático que haya sido el rodaje, hay que recordar que Coppola fue el responsable y principal "sufridor" del rodaje de Apocalypse Now... Si sobrevivió a aquello, esto le habrá parecido un juego de niños, por mayor que se vea para estos asuntos...
Charrán
Del ár. hisp. *šarrál 'vendedor de jureles'.
1. adj. Persona poco fiable, aprovechada o que actúa con picardía o engaño. Sinvergüenza, caradura o estafador.
2. adj. coloq. Dicho de una persona: Que se comporta de forma similar o que evoca al cineasta James Gunn.
Pues yo a Labeouf, por problematico que sea, lo respeto enormemente solo por reconocer que el problema está en el, y en su forma de ser.
"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
La narrativa de la critica 'especializada' es que Megalopolis puede estar mas cerca de The Room que de un film de calidad artistica, es decir, es un film de un megalomano, de un tipo que cree haber hecho una buena pelicula (la diferencia es que Wiseu sabia que su pelicula tiene un redito de culto por lo mala que es, Coppola es otro cantar y aqui hay que defender al director en su plenitud de capacidades) que realmente es un film malo, porque o no esta dentro de los estandares supuestamente objetivos u de cine artistico o que es una pelicula que esta hecha a contracorriente, fuera del sistema de estudio.
Sigo reiterando que esto es un elemento endemico, vivimos en un estamento de que las redes sociales son un metodo de vivir para un grupusculo de pseudocriticos que viven del like, de la polemica, de seguir a un cortijo en concreto, no tienen una mentalidad u mente propias, sino el de seguir lo que dictan los tomates u otros sistemas de medicion actuales.
Si, les mentas Apocalypse Now u El Padrino e incluso Wild Heart y te diran que eso era un buen Coppola, que donde esta ahora, que el de ahora es un viejo senil e incapacitado que vive de su prepotencia.
Es tal cual lo cuenta Prime, Muthur.
"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
Trailer de Megadoc de Mike Figgis:
Talks are underway about a possible theatrical pairing: a re-release of “Megalopolis” with “MegaDoc” playing beforehand. A limited solo rollout for the documentary is set for September 19 via Utopia.
Última edición por Branagh/Doyle; 02/09/2025 a las 22:37
"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
Minuto 1:59 del tráiler. Todos los nombres que aparecen en ese listado forman parte activa en la producción, excepto uno. Lucas.
Es el elegido. Aquel que traerá el equilibrio al documental.![]()
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RIP, Sir Pratchett.
«En la primera reunión con él sobre el futuro de Star Wars, George se sintió traicionado» B. Iger.
«Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.» George Orwell, 1984.
Bueno bueno. Recuerda lo que dijo Coppola en una de las charlas del tour por Estados Unidos. Que Lucas había echado una mano y ayudado desde pre producción.
Y la primera persona que sale en los agradecimientos especiales de los créditos del film es Lucas. Si tienes una copia a mano puedes ir y comprobarlo.
La primera.
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Última edición por Branagh/Doyle; 03/09/2025 a las 10:31 Razón: Me comí un trozo
"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas
¿Y que crees que dirá Scorsese, Bruce?
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"Personally, I think that as long as the artist can continue to have the enthusiasm to refine the work, they should do it. But I don't think that studios or other people should be allowed to go and tamper with something just because they want to put it on television, or they want to take it from black and white to color, or they want to have a more contemporary score on it."
George Lucas