Yesterday, like every October 3rd, was “Simple Girl’s Day”, which refers to the famous scene from the movie – called Lolita in French – in spite of me – where Aaron asks Kady (Lindsay Lohan) for today’s date. She answers him: “October 3rd” and this is an important moment for her, because that’s when she starts talking to him “more and more”.
To celebrate this special day, The official TikTok account of the filmDistributor Paramount Pictures oversees It was published yesterday To its 132,700 subscribers the entire feature film for free! This is no longer available as of this writing as the offer was limited to October 3rd only.
But TikTok set a shorter video length, the comedy lolita in spite of me, which lasted 1 hour. 38, was to be cut into 23 parts of varying lengths, some barely 45 seconds long, others more than 8 minutes long.
It remains to be seen if this kind of “cut to size” broadcast of the entire film will be repeated. Indeed, if the original format of the film was respected, viewers were forced to watch it in a distinctly detached and especially vertical format, with the image at a very small size, as seen in the tweet below:
If watching movies and series on the phone has become common today, will splitting the movie into 23 parts and watching it in even lower quality conditions remain associated with exceptional events such as “Simple Girl’s Day” or their multiplication? The question is valid.
Because if the practice exploded at Paramount, there’s no saying the firm couldn’t democratize it. Except that the films were not originally designed by their producers to be seen on a small screen (a vertical format is required) and in 23 parts. This can become a potential conflict between filmmakers and their distributors.
Lacey Chabert, Rachel McAdams, Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Seyfried
But uses change, and isn’t the point that movies are watched, no matter what the conditions? Are the parents of TikTok’s young audience fed up with VHS of dubious quality, cut-out movies, and length? Was it that far from a movie that was posted online in the correct format and all but cut on TikTok? The debate has begun!
If you want to see or preview Lolita Despite Me in landscape format, with guaranteed picture quality and in one step, go to Paramount+.
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