Legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola isn’t optimistic about the state of politics in the United States.
The Godfather and Apocalypse Now director warned that the U.S. is nearing the point of losing “our republic.”
“What’s happening in America, in our republic, in our democracy, is exactly how Rome lost their republic thousands of years ago,” Coppola said during a press conference Friday at the Cannes Festival where he debuted his long-in-the-works Megalopolis .
“Our politics has taken us to the point where we might lose our republic.” Megalopolis — which Coppola funded himself to the reported tune of $120 million — depicts a futuristic New York-like city that is in the throes of decadent decline, much like the late-stage Roman empire.Coppola later added: “My feeling was to make a Roman epic set in modern America, and I had no idea that the politics of today would […]
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