David Lynch doesn’t support the IPHONE!
Posted by Matt Holmes
Word of advice.
Don’t buy David Lynch an Iphone for his birthday.
During an interview on the DVD for his latest flick INLAND EMPIRE, Lynch describes his disdain for watching movies via your mobile phone. Some clever person then added the Iphone music and advert feel to it and slapped it onto Youtube so we can all have a nice laugh.
Although I do think he makes some good points… the day the mobile phone because the fore-front of entertainment viewing is the day the medium is dead. Though I don’t necessarily agree that the cinema going experience or a 52″ t.v. is THE only way to watch a movie.
Yes I would prefer to watch movies in the cinema, but as far as t.v. is concerned… I fell in love with movies like THE WOLF MAN from watching it on a crappy t.v. which flickered constantly and was often grainy as hell. No matter how good our technology gets, the movies have to be good to keep us watching.
And watching THE WOLF MAN on a bus… or THE WOLF MAN at home, I’m still going to get wrapped up in Lon Chaney’s heartbreaking transformation into a werewolf killer.
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Wolfman….Awesome!Wouldn’t want to watch it on a phone though.
i don’t think he raises good points at all. actually, he really doesn’t raise any points at all other than, “david lynch doesn’t think that you can EXPERIENCE a film on a cell phone.”
i might agree that you miss some of the nuance and atmosphere of a movie watching it on a tiny screen with headphones while on the bus, but so what? if an artist wants to have that level control over how their art is viewed, then it will cost them viewers and in turn money. if they want to trade integrity for cash then that’s fine with me, but i don’t want to hear any complaints that “no one saw my masterpeice!”
if you have ever watched the dvd of david lynch’s short films then you know that he is Pretentious with a capital P and totally High with a capital H. This statement just seems like another artist attempting to control their work after it has been released. i believe he has also eliminated chapter breaks from some of his dvds in order to force viewers to watch it all at once. but he’s got me thinking about his take on art so i guess he got what he wanted.
David Lynch is a talented director, but such a douche.
there’s one simple message being shown here.
don’t watch a movie on your fucking phone. that’s not how movies are to be watched…anyone who opts to watch a movie on a small screen is 1.) probably too impatient to watch a movie in a theater or at home 2.) doesn’t understand or hasn’t experienced watching a movie in a theater before and 3.) is stupid.
Who the fuck watches a movie on a phone or an ipod or a psp! Go watch fucking youtube videos on those small screens, movies though are made to be watched specifically on tv screens or theater screens.
To quote ALK:
“…movies though are made to be watched specifically on tv screens or theater screens.”
since when? is it ok for me to watch a movie made before the widespread acceptance of television on my home television today? i don’t think that Metropolis was ever intended to be screened in my living room. am i doing it “wrong”? if not, then it would stand to reason that films released during the era of television (and before) should be “acceptable” viewing on the next generation of devices (ipods, phones, and so forth).
movies are made to be watched period. some artists prefer that their works be presented and viewed in a certain way. however, it is ultimately up to the viewer to determine their own experience.
and i agree with cambion completely.
Argh, I really don’t like David Lynch. Anyway, I’m with you Matt in that my first experience of a lot of great movies was on a crappy old telly. Late night viewings of Hong Kong kung-fu classics with bad sound anmd blurred vision: Ah, them were the days…
Anyway, in my own personal view there is a distinction between poor quality videos and TV screens and iPods and iPhones. Ultimately, it’s upto people as individuals how they choose to experience a film. I’d rather see big-screen, proper presentation, but if it isn’t possible I’m acceptant of a more imperfect experience; not on as smaller scale as an iPhone though.