Just imagine the havoc they could have caused if they had met online years before they met IRL. The family would have never been in a rush to get to the airport, and never would have accidentally left Kevin behind. In the era of smartphones, just think about how many fake profiles the talented Mr. Ripley Matt Damon would have! But although it would have been easier for Ripley to stalk people, it would have been nearly impossible for him to convince the object of his obsession, Dickie Greenleaf Jude Law that they had gone to college together.
Of course, with a smartphone, Pee-Wee could make a post—or a thousand posts—about his bike in the same amount of time it took him to simply find a ride while hitchhiking. While on the lam with some stolen cash, she decides to stay at the Bates Motel instead of risking accidentally falling asleep in her car again. What happens next, of course, is the scene that made Janet Leigh afraid to use the shower for years to come. If Marion Carne had a smartphone, she probably would have skipped right over the Bates Motel, after it was given abysmal ratings due to its creepy owner.
And although there are still places with no cellphone reception in Alaska, the built-in compass that comes on most smartphones, along with a couple of pre-downloaded maps, would have made The Edge a much different movie. Much of the interacting and exploring that the characters do would have to be moved from the physical world to the online one.
But Sixteen Candles , in particular, would be impossible in the era of social media. Unfortunately for comedy plots, smartphones make errors really easy to correct. And if not, an Airbnb would have sufficed, in place of sleeping in Central Park. Retaliating against a business is almost an everyday occurrence in an age when people spend half their time on social media.
With any luck, the BoycottSals movement would have stayed online, with hate speech quickly censored when reported. The world would have known, but would it have made a difference? Potter Lionel Barrymore. One also hopes that George would get out of town once in awhile, and run his building and loan remotely. Do you know what happens when you leave your kids alone with the babysitter?
In the age of smartphones, yeah, you probably do But the good news is that Chris probably would have avoided the trouble entirely in the smartphone era, and simply told her stranded friend to hire an Uber. If the kids could send their parents a text, their problem would be solved immediately. At that point, being found was just a Skype call or Facebook Live away. The reporter and photographer hope to make it big with a story about the runaway princess, but naturally, Joe falls in love with her, and keeps her secret safe.
Information spreads too rapidly today, with email and cameras on our phones not to mention, the availability of facial recognition software. He ultimately exposes himself to her one of several times Keitel has taken part in full-frontal nudity on screen , but she falls in love anyway, expressing her love in a message she sends over with her daughter.
Her husband intercepts it and chops off her finger in anger. Yes, it would have been nice if James Cole Bruce Willis could have called his scientist-overseers from his handy smartphone in the sci-fi flick 12 Monkeys.
Believed to be a terrorist organization but later found out to simply be animal rights activists, the 12 monkeys would have definitely taken advantage of social media during their demonstrations. Cole could have simply searched the 12monkeys hashtag to figure out what they were all about.
One major way in which smartphones have made life dramatically easier is through travel, and no movie plot explains that better than the comedy Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. In it, advertising exec Neal Steve Martin is forced to travel with a very strange stranger, Del John Candy , when their flight is canceled and rental cars are sparse.
Today, Neal would only have to get off Slack momentarily while he searched other rental car companies and airfare apps. Where do you go if you need to find a queen? Queens, of course! Instead of calling someone, people who aren't interested in watching the movie surf aimlessly on their smartphones instead, checking Facebook or doing who knows what else. Of course, these jerks never have the courtesy to turn their brightness down , resulting in a reduced fun factor for everyone else in the movie theater.
If you're really addicted, use it as an exercise to work on your attention span. Everyone else will thank you, and perhaps people will start going to cinemas again. Part of the appeal of services like Netflix is that they have apps for almost any device. However, this access has degraded the quality of your movie experience. Blu-Rays and other "full HD" media have provided a viable alternative to the aggravation of the cinema; these are typically viewed on a big-screen TV that allows the viewer to take in all the details of the film.
Now, most people are content with watching a full-length film on their little smartphone screen, perhaps on a long ride or in the comfort of their own bed.
Even when using phablets , watching a two-hour movie on your 6-inch screen can't really be that enjoyable. For one, your face has to be so close to the screen that you'll be suffering from eye strain by the end.
That's not to mention that the picture has to be shrunk down — going from a inch television set or bigger to a 6-inch phone or smaller makes a huge difference! On your phone, you just aren't going to get the same level of detail that you would watching it on a TV, and that hinders the experience that the filmmakers intended for viewers.
So far we've looked at how smartphones have affected us as viewers of movies, but the devices have also caused problems in the actual films themselves. You don't have to look far to find examples of this. Such as how horror movies cheaply disables their characters from being able to use their phones with the "no service" excuse. As a whole, though, smartphones have become a sort of "magic box" in movies.
Need to hack a complex system that would probably take days in real life? It's cracked in two minutes with a smartphone! They never run out of battery power or get plagued by annoying notifications, and tracking and map features are often greatly exaggerated as well. Somehow, smartphones provide movie characters with others' exact locations inside buildings and elsewhere that wouldn't work in real life.
Essentially, smartphones are able to do anything in movies that the filmmakers want them to do, and that's a problem since they're a real-world object with limitations we're all well aware of. This never happened with landline phones. To wrap-up, let's look at a few classic movies from the past that could have been ruined or greatly changed if the characters had been carrying smartphones.
In Memento , a man with no short-term memory searches for his wife's killer using a system of Polaroid photos and body tattoos. With a smartphone, Leonard could have taken photos with a phone instead of the bulky camera, and wouldn't have had to use tattoos.
Instead, he could have chronicled his journey on Twitter or used Google Keep to take permanent notes. In Home Alone , a young boy is left at home while his family travels, a scenario that could have been completely avoided if Kevin had owned a smartphone.
He would have called his family immediately, and even kept up with them via video chat. It's safe to say this film firmly belongs in the s. In The Santa Clause , Scott Calvin accidentally witnesses Santa Claus die and unknowingly assumes his role, and some of his friends understandably refuse to believe Scott's tale.
However, had he and his son Charlie carried smartphones, they could have shot a Vine of their activities at the North pole, or live-streamed from the sleigh on Christmas Eve.
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