Hollywood director Martin Scorsese has requested the viewers who are planning to watch his crime drama The Irishman on Netflix to not watch it on a mobile phone.
The film, which has a run time of three-and-a-half-hour, saw Scorsese reunite with actor Robert De Niro after twenty four years. The popular director-actor duo last worked together on Casino in 1995.
“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 said this in an interview with film critic Peter Travers on the latter’s YouTube show, Popcorn With Peter Travers.
Scorsese told Travers that despite the film’s long run time, it has the capability of sustaining the viewer’s attention. “I’m not saying because, Oh, I made it. It was an interesting narrative structure, and it got me involved each time. In a funny way, I think I made it to cover all the bases in terms of how you could watch this picture” he said.
He further elaborates, “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 going to answer the phone or you’re not gonna get up too much, it might work”.
Starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, The Irishman released on Netflix on 28 November.
Watch the full interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqCW-rAnE4