Can you build a business off of movie clips?
My friend Theo Panayides once proposed that "Mulholland Drive" acts as a series of "semi-narratives one can revisit more or less at random, like putting on a CD." That was eight years ago. These days, the CD is dead but the idea of movies as discrete bits lives on, on YouTube, where you can find popular scenes before studio lawyers take them down, or, better yet, compiled into "greatest hits" compilations (like this "Gran Torino" one). Because, let's face it: your average viewer doesn't want to sit through all the dramatic, expository stuff more than once. You want to skip rights to the fireworks and LOLs. I'm not immune; sometimes you just want some funny stuff to power you through your lunch break. So I'll give the recently beta launched MovieClips.com the benefit of the doubt, despite some major conceptual hiccups. CEO Zach James says "It's pretty cool to be...
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