theres something about pay phones and flip phones for me... i never was around for them so they remain very foreign to me, i only know them from films and all, but also, as mentioned a bit above, the mystique of flip phones and pay phones do come from film, they feel so unique and integral to their setting and film in ways that smartphones never do in film... like I watched the departed the other night, and so much of that film is about those burner phones that each informant uses. the buzzing of the phone, the tiny buttons you press to send messages, and the forward action of flipping the phone open and close to answer and end a call.... theres nothing like that with smartphones, and especially in films, any tension in the departed with the flip phones would evaporate, and what films being made now make smartphones any type of feature like payphones and flip phones are in films back in the olden days? also like in dirty harry, theres a sequence where the killer has harry run all over san fransisco to different payphones in the city giving him clues at each phone, of course its a 70s movie, but what does that type of suspenseful sequence even look with smartphones?
