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For this week’s episode Joseph and Nathan watched Francis Coppola’s latest (and likely final) film, Megalopolis. The film draws parallels between Ancient Rome and modern day New York City and has been met with widespread confusion. The boys discuss the film in the first half of the episode, detailing the performance of several actors (notably Aubrey Plaza’s role as the brilliantly named Wow Platinum) and the film's various references to Ancient Rome. In the second half of the episode the boys discuss megalopolises more broadly, including ones in real life (the Northeast Megalopolis, the European Megalopolis, Japan's Taiheiyo Belt, and China’s various megalopolises) and fictional examples (the megalopolis depicted in the 1927 film Metropolis, Mega-City One in Judge Dredd, and Coruscant in Star Wars). 

Links:

Martin Scorsese Had a Cinema Epiphany ‘Too Late’ 

Megalopolis Plot meme

Megalopolis Movie Clip - Cesar is Mine (Wow Platinum elevator scene)

Nymphet Alumni’s Ep. 90: The Baby Name Game with Sophie Kim

Francis Ford Coppola Didn’t Want ‘Megalopolis’ To Be “Some Woke Hollywood Production,” Casting “Canceled” Actors from Deadline

Tell Your Children by Alex Berensen 

Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States by Jean Gottman

What if the cities of Jersey City, Elizabeth, Union, Newark, Hoboken, and others became one larger city like NYC? Reddit post 

Why is there no major city here? (Boroughitis) by Urban Jersey Guy

The location of Gotham city

Cars.destroyed.our.cities Hartford, Connecticut post

Blue Java Banana Review by Weird Explorer

Artwork:

From Megalopolis' Interactive Scene Explained: What Happens In It

Recorded on 10/6/2024