“But screens at the movie theatre make you feel like you're walking two or three steps into the screen, giving you a realistic simulation experience.”
Talking about Top Gun: Maverick with its director, Kojima theorized that the current generation watches everything — including films — through the small frame of a phone or computer, and that in that small rectangle there is no immersion. He said that in video games you enter the world by becoming the player, while in films you follow the back of the protagonist’s head or the lens of the cameraman. Kojima said the cinema screen makes you feel like you are walking two or three steps into the screen, giving a realistic simulation experience, and that with IMAX and Dolby Atmos what you see is a screen but you feel you can see the world around you. He suggested that Maverick must have left the smartphone generation, who had never experienced anything like that, in shock.
“I think most of them only ever look through a small frame, a small screen, even movies. […] In video games, you become the player and enter the world that way. And in movies, you either follow the back of the protagonist's head or through the lens of the cameraman. […] That realistic presence must have taken that generation by surprise.”