The Pestle

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Ep 292: “Megalopolis”

October 01, 2024

We stop time in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” and discuss:

  • We, uh, review Megalopolis;
  • Story & Writing, exposition, melodrama;
  • Afterwards we’ll rank our top 5 or 10 films;
  • and other such stuff and things and stuff.

“Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”Percy Bysshe Shelley from the poem “Ozymandias”

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Top 5/10 Films:

Todd’s Top 5:

  1. Interstellar
  2. Back to the Future
  3. Warrior
  4. Shawshank Redemption
  5. The Godfather Part 2

Wes’ Top 10:

  1. Interstellar
  2. Good Will Hunting
  3. Lord of the Rings
  4. Sunshine (2007)
  5. Before Sunrise
  6. Call Me By Your Name
  7. Warrior
  8. Spotlight
  9. Never Let Me Go
  10. Garden State

Wes’ honorable mentions: Braveheart, Man on Fire, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Fall, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Notting Hill, Gladiator


This Week’s Recommendations:

Wordplayer.com – Great screenwriting resource
some favorite articles:
Crap Plus One” – You know when you see a movie and say even you could do better than that? Uh oh…
Points for Style” – screenwriting tips on efficient and effective style

One comment

  1. Uwe says:

    I only played Civilization IV to discover Construction and listen to Leonard Nimoy quoting Ozymandias.

    Great idea to rank your top 5/10, thank you for that.

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