Vertical Video Has Ruined Civilization?
Summary
A rider with strong opinions launches into a passionate defense of vertical video, calling horizontal filming "one of the worst things that's happened in a hundred years of film making and cinema." Kareem pushes back hard. Your eyes are horizontal, he argues, pointing out that movie theater screens are wide for a reason. The stranger isn't having it. "When you have a phone in front of your face, you don't need vertical eyes to enjoy vertical content." He'd happily attend a vertical film festival. The debate spirals into increasingly absurd territory when he declares "cinema's racist" and suggests horizontal video costs more to produce, making it inherently elitist. It's a ridiculous argument that somehow keeps escalating.
Full Transcript
What's your take? Uh, vertical video has been an absolute cultural travesty. Absolutely disagree. Um, it's one of the worst things that's happened in a hundred years of film making and cinema. Any phone is vertical, so why would you make a horizontal video? Because your eyes are horizontal. That's the dumbest thing.
No, it's not. Your eyes—you see the world. You see the world horizontal. My brother in Christ, you go to a movie theater, the screen is huge. It makes sense that you're—it's when you have a phone in front of your face, you don't need vertical eyes to enjoy vertical content. If your eyes were here and here, it would make sense. I'm sorry, you're absolutely wrong. Okay, are you going to go to a movie theater and you want to watch a screen like this? I would absolutely love to go to a vertical film festival. You know, I happen to be somebody who thinks that cinema is still an art form. Cinema's racist. All right, shooting horizontal videos is more expensive than shooting vertical videos, and therefore it's inherent.