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The city of New Rome faces the duel between Cesar Catilina, a brilliant artist in favor of a Utopian future, and the greedy mayor Franklyn Cicero. Between them is Julia Cicero, with her loyalty divided between her father and her beloved.. Francis Ford Coppola wrote the script in the early 1980s, but the film was kept on the back-burner partially due to his financial debts. Pre-production finally began in 2001 after filming 30 hours of second unit footage and holding a table read with Paul Newman, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Edie Falco, and Kevin Spacey, but the project was scrapped after the September 11 attacks, because a scene from the script (page 166) . "predicted" the attacks. At 21:40, Catilina’s character says the phrase "Holy Jesus Christ!" in amazement. Yet, within universe, the city of New Rome stems from a culture based on Roman Mythology (example: 54:47, the dedication to Vesta; 01:55:51, someone says "The will of Cronus", or at 01:51; 56:49, a statue of Saturn is displayed prominently, while there are many more depictions of Roman deities). In this universe, Christianity does not exist. There is no reason Catiline would have used the phrase "Holy Jesus Christ!" and in such context.. Caesar Catiline: *You* wanna help me? Julia Cicero: Yeah. And, well, I… well, I want to learn.Caesar Catilina: And you think one year of… medical school entitles you to plow through the riches of my Emersonian mind?Julia Cicero: Does it entitle me? Yes.Julia Cicero: [scoffs] Entitles me?Caesar Catiline: Yeees!Julia Cicero: Entitles me?Caesar Catiline: YEEEEEES!Julia Cicero: You have no idea about me! You think I’m nothing, just a socialite? Cesar Catilina: No, not nothing, but I reserve my time for people who can think. About science. And literature, and… architecture and art. Do you find me cruel, selfish and unfeeling? I am I work without caring what happens to either of us. So go back to the cluuuub, bare it all, and stalk the kind of people that you enjoy.Julia Cicero: Fine! I will. Cesar Catilina: Come back when you have more time!. The "Ultimate IMAX Experience" version of the film features a live actor asking questions during the filmed press conference Explained (2024). My PledgeWritten by Grace VanderWaalPerformed by Grace VanderWaalCourtesy of Columbia RecordsProduced and Orchestrated by Kris Kukul. Full disclosure: This film is a disaster of epic proportions-an absolute train wreck that careens off the tracks, crashes, and then somehow sets itself on fire. It’s so bad, it’s almost brilliant, the kind of so-awful-it’s-genius nightmare that future cult fans will rave about. And you know what? I respect the hell out of Coppola for it. The guy is a cinematic legend who just decided to throw all caution (and coherence) to the wind and go full mad scientist on this. It’s a glorious, unfiltered mess from the mind of a genius who clearly stopped caring about what anyone thinks. Bravo, you magnificent lunatic! 👏🏻. From Alien: Romulus to Road House, take a look back at some of our favorite 2024 posters.