New film “Megalopolis”: Francis Ford Coppola: US Republic for the End

Director Francis Ford Coppola (“Der Pate”) sees the USA in its contemporary form of government for its end. “Today America is Roman, and it is worth looking at the history of the green world, which lost the Republic and is now with an imperial horizon”, said the American magazine “The Hollywood Reporter” in 85 years of Monday in New York, where the film “Megalopolis” was re-examined. In Germany, the film cinema opens on 26 September.

Coppola’s new science-fiction film is not grim, Bezug zum Römischen Reich. There said a city that wants a New York entry and a “New Rome”. Adam Driver played a visionary seeker named Cesar Catilina. Coppola lobs himself in front of himself: “If you see the film, a film about America as well as a movie, we will pass in a few months.”

In Gefahr, das Land zu verlieren

The Roman Republic was founded in 44 BC. of Julius Caesar, he would have died, as he himself would be a Diktator during his life. Since they have been “so well-being” and the senators have not yet done so for their own interest, they have declared Coppola dem Magazin. “Nun, this is a passion here. Our Senators and our Governors are all rich and play with their own power, anstatt the Land leiten, and then since we are in Gefahr, they will be lost.”

Ben 5. November in the US a new president wanted. Former president Donald Trump tried to activate the current president of Kamala Harris.

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