2024-09-11 13:38:28
“A superhero is an old idea,” cult director Francis Ford Coppola said in an interview.
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The famous film director Francis Ford Coppola (85) has an idea about the often seemingly hopeless situation in human societies. “Believing evil, in my opinion, is in the religions that have been around for thousands of years and the way of thinking that teaches what I see as an indisputable truth: Everyone belongs to one family, and to the family of the wise,” he said. Coppola (“The Godfather”, “Apocalypse Now”) in an interview with “Zeit” magazine.
There is no other living creature on earth that has anywhere near the intelligence and power of a human, that makes art like a human or can even speak a language. But there is a problem: “We have forgotten that, that is why we have become victims of the demagogues who are with them and say: Oh, these people are bad, we cannot stop them; these people kill children come.”
“Every child is another chance for a genius”
People allow this hatred to dominate their thinking, Coppola said. It is completely different. “It is not the children of our enemies who are killed, but our own children. Because every child is a new Beethoven, a new Mozart.” Every child is another opportunity for genius.
Coppola also said in the interview that he doesn’t think utopias need strong leaders. “You are welcome. One person’s leadership is a very old idea. We ourselves, as a group, as a family, men and women, shoulder to shoulder, together, can find any solution that is necessary.”
Coppola noted the fact that some film directors and actors have a reputation for being very authoritarian: “Some directors are like that, some are not. Billy Wilder is not a dictator. He is a collaborator. Fellini works by doing jokes. Every leader has it. You don’t have to be a killer to be a leader.
Coppola’s new film, the big project “Megalopolis”, will be released in German cinemas on September 26th. Adam Driver plays the lead role in the fictional science fiction film from the five-time Oscar winner and two-time Cannes winner. “Megalopolis” is colorful, large, full of ideas and design as an epic that refers to the Roman Empire. The action takes place in a city based in New York called New Rome. The visuals are heavily digitally remastered and full of brilliant visual effects. (dpa)
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