Despite the fact that we haven't seen "Megalopolis," it's safe to say that there is a difference between the two: Coppola is not Costner, and Costner is not Coppola; in that equilibrium, without yielding to sentimentality, Costner consistently falls short. As a director, he is a popular man targeted at the general public in the image of his acting profile; hence, he has surely practiced popular cinema and as a result attained a certain status. However, this puts us in conflict with the phrase "popular cinema," since "Horizon: An American Saga" on Afdah Movies —which is what this first section presents us—is not cinema; it is television, ostentatious television—and neither does it contain any pictures from cinema or anything understandable.