Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese is riding high with his new gangster epic The Irishman setting Netflix ablaze.
But the 77-year-old filmmaker has pleaded with fans not to reduce the spectacle by shrinking it down to a 6-inch screen.
In fact, he says that he’d prefer none of us resort to watching movies on our phones. At the very least, he conceded, it should be an iPad.
‘I would suggest — if you ever want to see one of my pictures, or most films — please, please don’t look at it on a phone, please. An iPad, a big iPad, maybe,’ Scorsese told film critic Peter Travers on his YouTube show Popcorn.
‘Ideally, I’d like you to go to a theater, look at it on a big screen from beginning to end. And I know, it’s long — you gotta get up, you gotta go to the bathroom, that sort of thing, I get it — but also at home, I think if you can make a night of it, or an afternoon thereof, and know that you’re not gonna answer the phone or you’re not gonna get up too much, it might work,’ he said.
Considering The Irishman is available on Netflix – and therefore on the smartphone and tablet apps – it’s a fair bet that many of us will be watching it on smaller screens.
But Scorsese isn’t the only Hollywood heavyweight to take a stand about the way his creations should be enjoyed.
Last year, Tom Cruise delivered a verdict on why higher frame rates on technologically-advanced TVs were ruining his films.
That’s because most new TVs come with a mode called video interpolation or ‘motion smoothing’ activated by default. This gives films a slicker overall look and makes content appear like its been shot on digital tape rather than good old fashioned film.
It’s good for reducing motion blur on things like sports but it can be counter-intuitive when you’re watching a feature film. It works by artificially increasing the frame rate of whatever you’re watching by adding extra frames into the footage automatically. Regular films are usually shot at 24fps which gives them a traditional cinematic edge with creative motion blur.
The feature is also called the ‘soap opera effect’ because soaps are shot at either 30fps or 60fps to give them a lifelike quality. But having that automatically applied to films has the unfortunate side effect of making The Cruiser look like he’s stepped out of an episode of Home & Away.
‘Most HDTVs come with this feature already on, by default,’ Cruise explained in a tweet that featured himself alongside Mission Impossible and forthcoming Top Gun director Christopher McQuarrie.
‘Filmmakers are working with manufacturers to change the way video interpolation is activated on your television,’ he said.
In the meantime, according to McQuarrie, you can turn this setting off manually with a Google search that’ll help you navigate through confusing televisual submenus.
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