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The distribution of The Irishman has been the cause of endless controversy since the first moment, as always happens with the films produced and distributed by Netflix: the scarcity of the passage in the theater and the ability to enjoy the film directly from your TV or even from your smartphone have in fact turned up many people’s noses.

Among these is the director Martin Scorsese himself: during an interview with Peter Travers, in fact, the director of Taxi Driver and The Departed admitted that he didn’t conceive of the fact that someone could prefer the screen of a mobile phone to that of the TV or even the cinema, and that he had no idea how to make a film by optimizing it specifically for the tiny display of a smartphone.

“I never thought about it, I really never thought about it. Of course, I could say that in the last twenty years I have made, in terms of screen size, films for television as films for cinema. But never film for a mobile phone. I don’t know how to do it. I wish I could do it, but I’m not capable of it. No, I can’t understand it,” Scorsese explained during his chat on Popcorn with Peter Travers .

Apart from mobile phones, distribution through Netflix is already changing the way viewers decide to enjoy the film: someone, in fact, has thought well to break down The Irishman into a mini-series, given the duration of almost four hours. According to Scorsese, however, The Irishman must be seen in one go.