Ethan Hawke - "Young people need to watch more movies"

AgentOtaku · 2024-05-08T17:47:22-0400

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"I'm always amazed at how often young people who say, 'I love movies and I want to make movies' don't actually watch movies"

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"I mean, they're perfectly willing to binge watch, for weeks of their life, something they know is really super okay, and the Criterion Channel is right there. Like, they could be watching Badlands as we speak," he told the publication.

He continued: "I say all that not to sound crotchety…But there's so much excellence in the past, so many of these thoughts of what we're all going through emotionally and what we're looking for — authenticity in our lives and healing — all these common threads of humanity people have been talking about for centuries. Cinema is a young art form, but it's 100 years old now, and there's a lot of great work, and you can rip it off madly."

As a parent of a now 21 year old, this speaks to me. I grew up loving film and we were able to successfully push that on our son. We remember feeling so proud when I told us how much he loved something like, The Irishman ❤️

But there definitely feels like... I don't know, a shrinking of attention spans nowadays :/

Doggg · 2024-05-08T17:53:25-0400

A film like Badlands would definitely struggle to hold their attention.

Mesoian · 2024-05-08T17:53:30-0400

AgentOtaku said:
But there definitely feels like... I don't know, a shrinking of attention spans nowadays :/

Naw, it's the time investment. With everything we have to go through, it's so much easier to find yourself infinite scrolling to a series of really stupid 20-60 second videos then planning for, then executing, sitting still for 90 minutes to 3 hours on one thing, hoping you like it (not even that it's good).

I still haven't watched Dune because it's 2 and a half hours. I need to want to spend that time in front of something that is passive entertainment and meanwhile, I could be playing something, doing something, talking to someone.

I'm often surprised when I end up binging something because it means what they've put in front of me has GRABBED me, but also if it doesn't, I'm only out 24 minutes, maybe 42.

Reflecting Sky · 2024-05-08T17:53:48-0400

There's a lot to learn from movies. The subtexts, the questioning of motivations of characters, etc.

To me movies can be as good, as if not better than the best philosophical works.

Xando · 2024-05-08T17:53:56-0400

"They don't know who Fassbinder is and they don't know who Éric Rohmer is and they don't know who Kurosawa is. They think they're modern and they haven't seen Do the Right Thing. Are you kidding? It's on your damn phone, watch it!" he says. "But they'd somehow rather watch some TV show that came out yesterday that they won't remember."

Turns out different people like different things.

Oliver James · 2024-05-08T17:54:22-0400

"I mean, they're perfectly willing to binge watch, for weeks of their life, something they know is really super okay, and the Criterion Channel is right there. Like, they could be watching Badlands as we speak," he told the publication.

Is it really, Ethan? Last time I checked people were still complaining of CC's availability. Speaking of CC:

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Tace · 2024-05-08T17:54:38-0400

In general, I agree with this

MadLaughter · 2024-05-08T17:54:52-0400

Ethan Hawke seems pretty thoughtful and passionate about this stuff

View: https://x.com/JohnnydNba/status/1524486110608510980

Jubilant Duck · 2024-05-08T17:55:18-0400

Xando said:
Turns out different people like different things.

but people who say they want to make movies, as Ethan Hawke is talking about here?

Spinluck · 2024-05-08T17:55:50-0400

I agree... Movies are great, art is great, and movies have a ton of different arts in them.

I also like most of the Ethan Hawke takes I hear even though he 100% is unapologetically pretentious.

jph139 · 2024-05-08T17:57:40-0400

I do find it kind of baffling how people don't have the attention span for a 2-3 hour movie, but are able to binge watch an entire season of a show in a weekend. Is it really just the episode breaks? Like, you know you can pause a movie, right?

Sidebar, but he was also in the Criterion Closet talking about how he used to bring Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace on family vacations hoping to convince everybody to watch it, so you gotta imagine his viewpoint is a little skewed lol.

View: https://youtu.be/YxzCSz-4CIw?si=dFayJLExqqECpVk8

Ethan Hawke - "Young people need to watch more movies"

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