Francis Ford Coppola responds to Razzie ‘Megalopolis’ nominations

Francis Ford Coppola has issued an abrasing response to Megalopolis Be “honest” with six Razzie nominations, including the worst image, the worst director and the worst script.

The director’s passion project of the director has already suffered the indignity of being destroyed by critics and the failure at the box office (winning Only $ 12 million worldwide).

But on Friday, the Ladies -I Megalopolis For several dishonors.

Coppola took Instagram to answer: “I am delighted to accept the Razzie award in so many important categories for @megalopolisfilmAnd for the distinctive honor of being nominated as the worst director, the worst script and the worst image at a time when so few have the courage to go against the predominant tendencies of the realization of contemporary movements.

The director continued: “In this wreck of a world today, where art receives scores as if it were a professional struggle, I chose not to follow the rules without tritonal established by an industry so terrified by the risk that despite the huge group of young talents at their disposal, you may not create images that will be relevant and living of 50 years from the years.”

And he concluded when he noticed: “What honor to be with a great and brave filmmaker like Jacques Tati, who completely impoverished to make one of the most beloved failures of the cinema, the game time! My sincere thanks to all my brilliant colleagues who joined me to do our work of art, megalopolis, and we remember that the box office is only money, and how war, stupidity and politics do not have a true place in our future. “

Two things, of course, can be true: Coppola’s criticisms can be successful … and Megalopolis You may still have completely obtained those Razzies.

The Razzies called the movie “WTF: The Movie” and called it “an incoherent disaster of $ 120 million by the legendary director of The godfather“While also highlighted the nominations for two of the stars of the film (Shia Laboou and Jon Voight). Read the complete list of Razzies.