Efff, you're wasting your time if you're expecting Lost In Translation to be the next japan-fixation movie. Which hopefully you aren't, consider what you've written in your livejournal lately. Lost In Translation is a new and excellent take on the classic fish out of water story. The fact that it takes place in Japan is incidental. All the retards who whine that it doesn't teach anything about Japan or Japanese culture don't seem to understand that this is a Soffia Coppola flick starring Bill Murray (best role since Scrooged, at least) and Scarlett Johansson (best role in her young career yet).
The content is pretty simple, Americans fumbling for direction in their lives, seen through the filter of a foreign culture. This alone is not unique nor interesting. It's the direction and production (the techniques of some young asian directors - specifically the use of panoramic-ish takes to establish a 'feel' or 'background' for some of the sequences) combined with some excellent acting that makes Lost In Translation work.
Soffia Coppola does a great job of building the mood from scenery in some spectacular shots, that may seem slow and/or boring to American audiences, but draw a lot from these interesting young asian directors. Murray does a stand-up job with his role, no doubt about it. To a degree at least, he's playing himself (washed-up actor), and the maturity he brings to the role is critical. And Johansson is young, naive, sexy, interesting, and everything else you might hope for given her role.
Good flick, worth a rental at least.
... also, haven't mentioned it lately, but you're still HOTT.
The content is pretty simple, Americans fumbling for direction in their lives, seen through the filter of a foreign culture. This alone is not unique nor interesting. It's the direction and production (the techniques of some young asian directors - specifically the use of panoramic-ish takes to establish a 'feel' or 'background' for some of the sequences) combined with some excellent acting that makes Lost In Translation work.
Soffia Coppola does a great job of building the mood from scenery in some spectacular shots, that may seem slow and/or boring to American audiences, but draw a lot from these interesting young asian directors. Murray does a stand-up job with his role, no doubt about it. To a degree at least, he's playing himself (washed-up actor), and the maturity he brings to the role is critical. And Johansson is young, naive, sexy, interesting, and everything else you might hope for given her role.
Good flick, worth a rental at least.
... also, haven't mentioned it lately, but you're still HOTT.
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