With American filmmaker David Lynch railing against watching movies on a mobile phone, the debate around the appropriateness of tiny monitors to watch movies has cropped up yet again. For the unversed, Lynch said this much: "People think they have seen a movie, but if they have watched it on a phone, they haven’t seen anything."
We know how the Indian audience view the debate. We all prefer to watch spectacle cinema on the big screen. We also love to watch our favourite stars on the big screen.
How do, say, Americans view the issue? Turns out that there is nothing much of a difference. Craft-driven films, spectacle cinema and big-star movies deserve a big-screen experience, Americans seem to think. But others deserve only a phone. "Not all films are an artistry job, some are for entertainment and it's fine. Second, there are many types of artistry, and some of those can be accommodated by a phone," a Twitter user from the US opined. "It makes no difference, it's still the same picture with the same colour grading, same dialogue, same plot," a viewer said.
Others think that watching a movie on a tiny screen is a disservice to the film. "Watching a movie on a tiny screen just doesn't do justice to the artistry that goes into it," a Twitter user from the West said.
