A fortune was burned on “Don’t Look Up” (not to mention multiple efforts to retool the story of Noah’s Ark for pushing a global warming message that baffled Hollywood executives when religious viewers didn’t seem interested), but much like the industry pushed out an assembly line of anti-war movies during the Iraq War that no one wanted to see, followed by racism movies more recently than no one wanted to see, it’s time for more Warmunist preaching.
Some 20 years after it took root in the imagination of Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis screened this morning for the very first time.
“A accident causes the destruction of a New York City-like metropolis that is decaying anyway brings clashing visions of the future. On one side is an ambitious architectural idealist Cesar (Adam Driver). On the other is his sworn enemy, city Mayor Frank Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito). The debate becomes whether to embrace the future and build a utopia with renewable materials, or take a business-as-usual rebuild strategy, replete with concrete, corruption and power brokering at the expense of a restless underclass.”
I’m sure what the “restless underclass” wants most of all is rebuilding a city with “sustainable materials” that would cost twice as much, as opposed to actually rebuilding the city with the stuff it’s already made of.
Coppola has a whole bunch of homes and estates made the old-fashioned way which include a Napa Valley estate complete with vineyards (mandatory for the elite), the Palazzo Margherita estate in Italy, and a 19th-century island palace in Belize, two more Napa Valley estates, a place in Guatemala, and another in New Orleans.
Coppola apparently also travels in a Falcon 7X business jet known as ‘Sofia 3’.
None of this is “sustainable” and the “restless underclass” might have thoughts about a guy with more mansions than a Russian czar.
But the elites who push this propaganda are flagrant hypocrites who never actually live by the abusive rules that they would like to impose on that very same “restless underclass”.