Regardless of whether you think Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a great movie, a terrible movie, or some mad hybrid of both , we can all probably agree that the most fascinating thing about the film was its creation. A dream project that Coppola spent decades trying to realize, Megalopolis felt for many years like a defining absence in the director’s career: the masterpiece he never got to make, the one that would tie everything together. And then he made it — with about $120 million of his own money, after 13 years away from the director’s chair. Megalopolis came out last year, got wildly divisive reviews, and made about $10 at the box office. But it also might have been the most-talked-about picture of the year. Is that failure or success? “He likes going through brick wall

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