Multiple Oscar- winner Francis Ford Coppola on Friday said he was” thrilled” to accept this time’s lingo- in- impertinence Razzie Award for worst director, averring it shows he has a” courage” plaintively lacking in ultramodern Hollywood.
The fabulous filmmaker behind” The Godfather” and” Apocalypse Now” poured his own plutocrat into last time’s passion design” Megalopolis,” which divided critics, drawing despisement from several.
But Coppola, 85, has always made light of the numerous brickbats aimed at his ambitious and romantic late- career epic, and his game response to the sarcastic Razzie Award was no different.
Coppola said he was” thrilled” to accept the dubious accolade,” at a time when so many have the courage to go against the prevailing trends of contemporary moviemaking!”
” In this wreck of a world moment, where ART is given scores as if it were professional wrestling, I chose to NOT follow the pusillanimous rules laid down by an assiduity so alarmed of threat that despite the enormous pool of youthful gift at its disposal, may not produce filmland that will be applicable and alive 50 times from now,” he wrote on social media.
Coppola has said he spent$ 120 million of his own plutocrat to make” Megalopolis”, dealing a stake in his California croft .
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Its important- hyped world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last May left the assiduity confounded.
In a plot that’s hard to epitomize, Adam motorist stars as a putatively magical mastermind whose sweats to rebuild a decaying megacity into a futuristic Cockaigne are baffled by its resentful mayor( Giancarlo Esposito).
The movie boasts a astral cast including Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf and Dustin Hoffman.
Critics’ responses ranged from” a true ultramodern masterwork” to a” catastrophe.”
suggested for by some 1,200 members of an impious group that any film addict can join, the Razzies– or Golden snorts– were created as an cure to the movie assiduity’s tone- obsessed series of swank award shows.
This time’s other Razzie” winners” included Dakota Johnson as the worst actress for her much-mocked superhero spin-off, Madame Web, which was also named the worst picture and worst script.
Jerry Seinfeld was named worst actor for” Unfrosted,” a kindly surreal original story for Pop- cocottes afters .
Joaquin Phoenix– who won stylish actor at the Oscars in the first” Joker” film– was concertedly awarded worst screen quintet with Lady Gaga for its bomb follow- up” Joker Folie a Deux.”
