Really appreciate the write up. Sometimes a genuine fan reaction is so much more convincing than whole articles glazing something. From the little I know it seemed like people’s biggest issue was the acting/direction, hence the infamous back to the club clip, but I can appreciate taking big swings. I might try to catch it some time based solely on your comment. It originally came off sounding like it was just self important navel gazing when I’ve heard others talk about it, but sometimes taking a project seriously and having it not hit just comes off that way.
The problem is it absolutely is self important navel gazing. It just also tries to ask us to think and be so much more at the same time. It absolutely knows it’s the grand work of one guy, but he dared to dream.
But yeah, if people were calling the “go back to the club” bad acting then all I can say is I wouldn’t listen to them personally. I mean, I don’t know Coppola’s intent but that entire scene struck me as perfect as his character was intentionally mocking someone there. He was supposed to sound silly and dumb.
Really appreciate the write up. Sometimes a genuine fan reaction is so much more convincing than whole articles glazing something. From the little I know it seemed like people’s biggest issue was the acting/direction, hence the infamous back to the club clip, but I can appreciate taking big swings. I might try to catch it some time based solely on your comment. It originally came off sounding like it was just self important navel gazing when I’ve heard others talk about it, but sometimes taking a project seriously and having it not hit just comes off that way.
The problem is it absolutely is self important navel gazing. It just also tries to ask us to think and be so much more at the same time. It absolutely knows it’s the grand work of one guy, but he dared to dream.
But yeah, if people were calling the “go back to the club” bad acting then all I can say is I wouldn’t listen to them personally. I mean, I don’t know Coppola’s intent but that entire scene struck me as perfect as his character was intentionally mocking someone there. He was supposed to sound silly and dumb.