futurism
noun
fu·tur·ism
ˈfyü-chə-ˌri-zəm 
1
: a movement in art, music, and literature begun in Italy about 1909 and marked especially by an effort to give formal expression to the dynamic energy and movement of mechanical processes
2
: a point of view that finds meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
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But the most effective expression of the film’s futurism isn’t in the dialogue so much as in Coppola’s filmmaking and technical experimentalism.
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
Things to Come was directed by legendary production designer William Cameron Menzies, who later designed the burning of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind and clearly influenced Coppola’s skyscraper imagery and his bewildering mix of futurism and antiquity.
—Armond White, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
Cinephiles were quick to register their disappointment at the legendary director’s latest foray into futurism.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024
The concrete result of this realization—despite Mohammed bin Salman’s often dramatic role in Saudi policymaking—is an economic approach based not on glitzy futurism but on a far more orthodox and technocratic set of policies.
—Karen E. Young, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2022
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
Things to Come was directed by legendary production designer William Cameron Menzies, who later designed the burning of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind and clearly influenced Coppola’s skyscraper imagery and his bewildering mix of futurism and antiquity.
—Armond White, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
Cinephiles were quick to register their disappointment at the legendary director’s latest foray into futurism.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024
The concrete result of this realization—despite Mohammed bin Salman’s often dramatic role in Saudi policymaking—is an economic approach based not on glitzy futurism but on a far more orthodox and technocratic set of policies.
—Karen E. Young, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2022
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“Futurism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/futurism. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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