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在2005年,科波拉梦想多年的电影项目《大都市》搁浅,他也因此陷入了个人困境。一本由米尔恰·伊利亚德撰写的短篇小说在这时与他不期而遇,书中描写的缺乏方向的感觉,与科波拉此时的状态非常契合。小说讲述了多米尼克·马泰的故事,作为一位极富智慧的学者,七十岁的他却已无力完成他毕生的唯一著作:一部对语言的根源进行解答的书。科波拉秘密地开始了对小说的筹备与改编,对他来说,这部新作完全是《大都市》的对立面:成本低廉,拍摄地不在好莱坞,而在罗马尼亚,整个创作班底除沃尔特·默奇
In 2005, Coppola’s long-awaited movie project “Metropolis” ran aground and he fell into personal distress. A short story by Mircea Illiaard met him at a time when the lack of direction in the book portrays Coppola’s current state of affairs. The novel tells the story of Dominique Matello, a highly intelligent scholar who, at the age of seventy, has been unable to complete his only book of his life: a book that answers the root causes of language. Coppola secretly began preparation and adaptation of the novel, for him, this new work is entirely the opposite of the “metropolis”: low cost, shooting is not in Hollywood, and in Romania, the entire creative team except Walter Mo odd