'Megalopolis' de Francis Ford Coppola tendrá un gran estreno en IMAX este otoño.
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
De worldofreel.com
Deadline is reporting that Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” is set for a big fall IMAX release. The question remains whether Coppola’s intentions are to premiere this one at Cannes. I was told recently that’s the goal.
Three weeks ago, Coppola shared, via his Instagram, the title image for “Megalopolis.” Let’s hope a trailer is coming soon. I also recently read the original script for this film, and it’s really … wild. I’m not sure how it’ll translate on screen, but it’s definitely an, err, original statement. The script is out there, if anybody is interested.
If the film does indeed go to Cannes, will it be in or out of competition? Coppola holds Cannes in the highest esteem and he probably wants “Megalopolis” to compete for the Palme d’Or. Regardless, a Cannes debut is still very risky, to put it mildly, because if “Megalopolis” is met with bad reviews on the Croisette then it could put a major damper in Coppola’s search for a distributor.
The film stars Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Giancarlo Esposito, Laurence Fishburne, Chloe Fineman, Dustin Hoffman, Shia LaBeouf, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jason Schwartzman and Jon Voight.
Coppola, a legendary Oscar-winning director is self-funding “Megalopolis,” a passion project more than four decades in the making. He sold his lucrative winery to fund the film, which was said to cost around $120 million. Here’s the synopsis:
In New York, a woman is divided between loyalties to her father, who has a classical view of society, and her lover, who is more progressive and ready for the future.
Coppola started writing “Megalopolis” in the early ‘80s. The earliest anecdote has Coppola talking about the project during the 1982 shoot of “The Outsiders.” So, this project must have been ruminating in his head right after “Apocalypse Now,” maybe even before."
Loco. Completamente loco...
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
Bruce, te he imaginado leyendo lo que he posteado, sonriendo y pensando: a sus 84 años, sigue siendo mi Copollón
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
Pues prácticamente. Los tiene cuadrados el abuelo. Esa generación tiene unos cojonazos de impresión. Necesita 350 para recuperar la inversión. Ojalá le salga bien. Por lo que a mí respecta, pienso colaborar varias veces.
RIP, Sir Pratchett.
«¿Me permites una crítica constructiva a la mierda esa que has hecho?»
«En la primera reunión con él sobre el futuro de Star Wars, George se sintió traicionado» B. Iger.
«El mal no puede crear nada nuevo, sólo corromper o arruinar lo que las fuerzas del bien han inventado o construido». J.R.R. Tolkien.
«DEI kills ART. It´s ineffective and actually appears to increase prejudice, not reduce it».
«Put a chick in it and make her gay and lame». Cartman as K.K.
Quiero decir, por un lado tenemos a los estudios tradicionales... ¿Qué no me queréis asegurar porque soy muy viejo y llevo muchos años retirado del negocio?. Muy bien. No necesito vuestra financiación.
Y por el otro a las grandes megacorporaciones dedicadas a la producción de películas y series en streaming (Netflix, Amazon, Apple...). Estas si me imagino que le habrán ofrecido financiarle el proyecto, pero puede que Coppola se oliese posibles injerencias creativas/peajes impuestos a posteriori y no quisiese correr el riesgo. Ya sabes, cuotas, narrativas comprometidas por ideologías y demás. El percal actual del cine comercial estadounidense.
Conclusión, yo me lo guiso, yo me lo como. En pleno 2024, resulta casi catártico contemplar una gran super producción independiente auto financiada, escrita y dirigida por una leyenda viva, pasando completamente de la industria. Vamos, es que es la autoría en su máxima expresión. ¿Que luego puede pegársela a lo grande?. Pues si.
Pero estamos siendo testigos de algo muy especial, y solo por eso merece la pena el viaje.
Última edición por Branagh/Doyle; 29/02/2024 a las 23:20 Razón: Errata
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
Fíjate que yo tengo muchas dudas de que Netflix, Apple, y etc... hubiesen estado dispuestas a producirle este enorme proyecto a Coppola, algo pequeño sin duda, pero de esta magnitud lo dudo.
Es distinto al caso de El Irlandés, ya que a diferencia de Coppola, Scorsese ha seguido en la cresta de la ola de manera prácticamente ininterrumpida, a menudo con éxitos de taquilla, y con una mayor popularidad entre el público actual que Francis.
Tienes mucha razón, pero como dijo el propio Scorsese en una ocasión, de todos ellos (Spielberg, Coppola, Millius, Lucas, el propio Scorsese...), Coppola es el ARTISTA, así con mayusculas. Posiblemente se pueda decir que es el más grande cineasta vivo, fíjate lo que te digo. Recuerda, por ejemplo, que El Padrino II no es una película, sino una catedral. Una obra magna prácticamente inabarcable.
Así que las mega corporaciones se lo pierden, que quieres que te diga.
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
Indudablemente Coppola es el más grande vivo, luego ya en el siguiente escalón están los Spielberg, Scorsese, Eastwood, Polasnki, Allen...
Hablando de ello, muy recomendable la serie The Offer, sobre la producción de El Padrino.
¿El guion es enteramente suyo? Al menos eso parece. Sus películas tienen guiones basados en algún libro y muy trabajados. Ademas algunos de sus películas son guiones que habían pasado por muchas manos al intentar llevarlos a la pantalla , pero no salieron adelante por lo que sabían mas o menos que camino tomar.
Ademas se ha metido en un genero que ha tocado muy poco, la ciencia ficción.
Esperaremos a ver que sale de todo esto
El nivel de expectación variará dependiendo de la consideración que uno de tenga del Coppola post años 70, imagino. En mi caso, disfruto mucho de sus años 80 -One From the Heart, Rumble Fish, Tucker y los montajes del director de Rebeldes y Cotton Club me parecen grandes películas- y 90 (Jack al margen, claro). Incluso me gustaron bastante Youth Without Youth y Tetro, aunque no Twixt, su ultima película hasta la fecha.
De modo que en lo que a mi respects, estoy como un niño esperando poder abrir los regalos de Navidad.
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
La partitura de la película se ha grabado en Budapest con una gran orquesta, según cuenta Coppola.
Supongo que nos enteraremos pronto de quién es el compositor.
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
Vale, se trata del compositor argentino Osvaldo Golijov, quién ya compuso estupendas partituras para Youth Without Youth, y Tetro.
La fuente es la propia página web del compositor. Cito:
Osvaldo Golijov’s works include the St Mark Passion; the opera Ainadamar; Azul, a cello concerto; The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, for clarinet and string quartet; the song cycles Ayre and Falling Out of Time; and the soundtracks for Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro and Youth Without Youth. His two most recent works are Um Dia Bom, premiered by Brooklyn Rider, and Ever Yours, premiered by the St Lawrence String Quartet and the Telegraph Quartet. He is currently working on the soundtrack for Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming film Megalopolis. He was born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1960, and lived in Jerusalem before immigrating to the US in 1986. He is the Composer-in-Residence at The College of the Holy Cross.
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
Bueno, no exactamente. La trama está basada (nombres de los personajes incluidos), en la conjura de Catilina. El borrador del guión que leí seguía los acontecimientos históricos bastante rigurosamente.
Última edición por Branagh/Doyle; 01/03/2024 a las 21:44 Razón: Añadido enlace
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
Del libro (de inminente lanzamiento), The Path to Paradise, a Francis Ford Coppola Story. Sobre el rodaje de una escena de Megalopolis.
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
¿Me lo parece a mí o Adam Driver se está haciendo un carrerón, respecto a calidad de producciones y selección de papeles inmaculada? Está pasando muy rápidamente de "actor de carácter" a estrella de prestigio...
Peinabombillas
Del it. peinar, bombilla.
1. adj. Dícese de aquel hombre que realiza actividades absurdas o faltas de razonamiento.
2. adj. coloq. Dicho de una persona: Que se comporta de forma similar o que evoca al cineasta James Gunn.
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
Q: "I'm your new quartermaster"
007: "You must be joking"
_______________________
CLAUDIO: "Lady, as you are mine, I am yours"
_______________________
EISENSTEIN: "I'm a boxer for the freedom of the cinematic expression" -"I'm a scientific dilettante with encyclopedic interests"
Eso iba a decir yo, con apenas cuarenta años ha conseguido que su nombre aparezca en película de Scorsese, Jarmusch, Eastwood, Lee, Spielberg, Coen, Scott, Mann... Ahora Coppola...
De acuerdo, en cambio no recuerdo que en ninguna haya hecho un trabajo para los anales de la historia. Quizá donde más me gustó fue en su entrañable personaje de Paterson.
Peinabombillas
Del it. peinar, bombilla.
1. adj. Dícese de aquel hombre que realiza actividades absurdas o faltas de razonamiento.
2. adj. coloq. Dicho de una persona: Que se comporta de forma similar o que evoca al cineasta James Gunn.
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
Q: "I'm your new quartermaster"
007: "You must be joking"
_______________________
CLAUDIO: "Lady, as you are mine, I am yours"
_______________________
EISENSTEIN: "I'm a boxer for the freedom of the cinematic expression" -"I'm a scientific dilettante with encyclopedic interests"
Marriage Story es maravillosa. Así de claro.
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.