Francis Ford Coppola has issued a blistering response to “profitable” worst director for Megalopolis after the movie was given six Razzie nominations — together with worst image and worst screenplay.
The director’s $120 million ardour undertaking already suffered the indignity of being torn aside by critics and flopping on the field workplace (incomes solely $12 million globally).
However on Friday, the Razzies — these annual pre-Oscars fake awards for the worst motion pictures of the yr — gave Megalopolis wins for director and for co-star Jon Voight.
Coppola took to Instagram to answer: “I’m thrilled to simply accept the Razzie award in so many essential classes for @megalopolisfilm, and for the distinctive honor of being nominated because the worst director, worst screenplay, and worst image at a time when so few have the braveness to go in opposition to the prevailing tendencies of latest moviemaking!”
Continued the director: “On this wreck of a world right this moment, the place ART is given scores as if it have been skilled wrestling, I selected to NOT comply with the gutless guidelines laid down by an business so frightened of danger that regardless of the big pool of younger expertise at its disposal, could not create footage that can be related and alive 50 years from now.”
And he concluded by noting: “What an honor to face alongside an incredible and brave filmmaker like Jacques Tati who impoverished himself fully to make considered one of cinema’s most beloved failures, PLAYTIME! My honest due to all my good colleagues who joined me to make our murals, MEGALOPOLIS, and allow us to remind ourselves us that box-office is just about cash, and like warfare, stupidity and politics has no true place in our future.”
Two issues, after all, may be true: Coppola’s criticisms of the business may be spot on … and Megalopolis can nonetheless have absolutely earned these Razzies.
The Razzies dubbed the movie “WTF: The Film” and referred to as it “an incoherent $120 million mess from the fabled director of The Godfather” whereas additionally singling out nominations for 2 of the movie’s stars (Shia LaBeouf and Jon Voight — the latter additionally gained). Learn the complete record of Razzies.