Francis Ford Coppola allegedly tried to kiss some of the female extras whilst filming a bacchanalian nightclub scene in ‘MEGALOPOLIS’ to try to “get them in the mood”

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1. The more I see of this thing, the less interested I am in actually watching it: Coppola’s skills as a filmmaker have been in freefall for decades at this point and I’m not seeing much of anything that’s convincing me this isn’t just more from the same plummet. **HOWEVER**: finding out that Mike Figgis (!) has been making a documentary about its production *is* appealing to me, and at this point I want to see *that* more than I do the film it’s documenting. A fly-on-the-wall documentary of Coppola’s last dance, him setting it all on fire and fiddling as fast as he can, directed by the guy who made Leaving Las Vegas? That sounds fucking *fascinating.*

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3. Victor Salva approves.

4. In the mood to do what? Vomit?

5. Not my toxic gay ass looking up how Francis Ford Coppola looks so I can decide whether I would’ve liked that… He shouldn’t have lost all that weight.

6. > This article was amended on 14 May 2024 to correctly refer to the “Roman republic”, rather than the “Roman empire”, in relation to events of 63BC.

   That’s an amazing correction.

7. 🎶 Lips are for kissing, uh uh uh 🎶

8. “Oh my God, he admit it!”

9. Well I guess if he’s directing them to act uninhibited enough …

   Though it goes without saying if that was going to be his approach then I would expect him to try to kiss some male extras too, to set an example

10. Nic, get your uncle.

11. Francis Ford Coppola sexually assaulted women. FTFY.

12. It’s his Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets…

13. This is what separates real cinema from garbage like Marvel.

14. You should look up his relationship with the director of jeepers creepers, even more egregious than this story

15. Didn’t his wife like just pass away

16. not the Open Robe?