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Autobiographical about FFC’s life? I think so


It’s a movie about an award-winning “genius” who has a new and ambitious project that will “change the world” if made, but lots of people in power refuse to allow him to make it, simply because they’re evil. Along the way people frame him for pedophilia, push him to leave his loving wife, and constantly slander him in the media. He’s also stricken by the death of his wife, who died in a body of water. Yet, he pushes through, makes his vision, and changes the world.

Uh huh. Sounds alot like FFC’s life, or the way he sees it through his narcissistic, deluded eyes. Coppola was a self proclaimed “genius” (that’s what he calls himself) who won several Academy Awards, but still couldn’t get his dream projects off the ground because, well, it’s Megalopolis. Throughout the years he’s been involved in many scandals, including cheating on his wife several times, openly sheltering convicted pedophile Victor Salva and painting the young boy destroyed by Salva’s disgusting actions as the real villain, and has tried suing the media several times for “slander”…even when he’s clearly in the wrong (like getting too touchy with extras). FFC also lost his son Gian-Carlo in a tragic boating accident just before Gian-Carlo’s son came into the world. But nothing will stop the GENUIS Francis Ford Coppola from changing the world with his art!

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It most certainly is. I laughed when the pedo subplot came up. You think he regrets defending Victor Salva so much?

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simply because they’re evil


Wow Platinum was certainly a greedy, scheming biyatch and got her comeuppance; Clodio Pulcher as well, although he was basically a decadent fool. But Mayor Cicero wasn't wholly evil, more stuck in a rut and acting in his best interests politically. He and Cesar Catilina were able to forgive and accept one another as family by the end... for a better future.

As for Crassus, he comes to his senses, pledging to use his great wealth in support of Megalopolis.

"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life" and so the impenitent in the movie reaped the wages of sin -- death -- whereas those who changed their minds/thinking/actions (i.e. they repented) were able to enjoy the benefits of Megalopolis, which is a type of the New Jerusalem, aka the eternal holy city (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2021-22&version=NIV).

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