![]() Though some realities of the movie business haven’t changed, Coppola said he sees the industry as a whole as experiencing a period of “great transition,” where film and television have merged completely. “I had won five Oscars, and nobody would let me make ‘Apocalypse Now.'” Speaking about the state of movies today, Coppola said that studio films have too much money, while talented independent filmmakers don’t have enough, a situation that also plagued him during the peak of his career. Though Coppola said live cinema doesn’t represent the entire future of filmmaking, he insisted that “there will be live productions that are cinematic and look like movies.” “If you don’t get too experiment and do outrageous things like that, how can you move forward?” “The truth is I had no idea how I was going to do what I was saying I was going to do,” he said. ![]() While Coppola’s unconventional approach to “Distant Vision” may sound particularly challenging to pull off, he said that figuring things out on the fly has always been a part of his process, especially on films like “Apocalypse Now.” The ultimate goal is to make something that doesn’t look like “The Young and the Restless,” he added. His plan is to work out those details by experimenting with several shorter productions, which together will form his “proof of concept,” he said. ![]() The reason Coppola expects “Distant Vision” to take five years is that he hasn’t actually worked out all the technical logistics of how to produce and shoot a live performance that still has the visual appearance of a movie. Why TV Isn’t Working At Festivals Yet: A Modest Proposal
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