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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

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