Lost in Translation

[exudos]

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just as ive suspected... his last words... guys please watch the movie very very carefully, be attached to the film rather than be welcomed.. after watching it, i said to myself the THE MOVIE DESERVES THE AWARD.

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and the rain stops..

she blinks,

she sees no cloud..

.. she closes her eyes and died.

[MrBiddle]

Wa pa kabasa si Roland sa akong transition so i-repost nako

I've come to my resolve on this matter:

At first viewing you'd think the scenes were put together arbitrarily. Lost In Translation
demands a second viewing to fully appreciate how Sofia Coppola makes the movie actually live up to it's title. There is indeed cohesion of scenes, if only just merely referencing something earlier as opposed to the standard blatant foreshadowing and payoffs. Such as the smile at the elevator. And Charlotte, when she was all by herself really did bang her toe up hard. All I'm saying is that the cohesion is very subdued, and you don't exactly get the KILLER SHARK feel of the story moving forward. You'll get the impression that the way Sofia tells the story is rather frivolous but it's not. Bob's character arc bends 180 degrees when he DOES want to stay to be with the Johnny Carson of Japan guy. I don't wanna spoil anything but you'll know why this character arc surfaces when you watch the film. And there is still the conflict in each scene - and Bob's relationship with his wife comes to the apex of bitterness in a bathtub scene later in the movie. Speaking of bitterness, Charlotte becomes this way a little later in the film when something unexpected happens. "I guess you're busy", Charlotte says that's all I'm gonna give a way as a hint to what I'm talking about.

Sofia Coppola does know what she's doing and after what she has put you through with the rest of the film, the ending ultimately becomes a depressing payoff. As Bob regains level headedness and his arc has gone to a complete 360. And despite this praise I am giving Coppola - know that the way she writes narrative on page she was criticized for her work reading like that of a first year film student. But I guess the technicalities of the page in the screenwriting craft don't matter, it's ultimately the execution and how you pull off your sleight of hand when you tell the story. I said a depressing payoff - but yes the payoff this similar reaction Coppola has also managed to do in her movie THE VIRGIN SUICIDES where the ending is spilled at the beginnning but when you get to it, you feel like you've been riding a vehicle that hit a hard sudden brake. I guess that's skill from the writer-director.
And in those moments where Bob and Charlotte are happy-go-lucky, we as the audience would love to unwind as we have been put under pressure earlier exempli gratia Bob having to go through that irritating shoot of the commercial Suntory Time or Charlotte just really lost and bitter as she confides with someone in the telephone with some tears.

I reiterate, you must reserve judgment - something I have failed to do until two or three viewings. Ultimately, what you will think of this movie's subdued acting, and storytelling is subjective but as the saying goes you truly haven't seen a film unless you've seen it three times. Is this one of the movie's failures because it didn't manage to hit me hard on first viewing? If it is, then this doesn't deserve the recognition it got in the Oscars. But NO. No, in my opinion Lost in Translation isn't overrated.




@ Exudos

Theoretically, this is a better movie as it purchases from us more emotions and more response, but technically I maintain that FINDING NEMO still got the award for Best Original Screenplay

[exudos]

technically?

FINDING NEMO was good though... the old style INTRO, CONFLICT, RESOLUTION hollywood gig..
:mrgreen:

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OT: BIDDLE - hey, artist sa diay nimo si BRYAN?

[MrBiddle]

OT: Nope. but I exploited him unrighteously. Twice this time.

Anyway, mas angayan daw siya improv og mga caricature-y characters kaysa dialogue.
And you know what? He has forever lost confidence in me after I duped him into playing a self deprecating part in my vague and abstract art film. But then again, who wouldn't after my 2nd movie lousy cinematography?

[r/brey]

ooohhh, finally... finally...


hehehe!

[ralf23]

nindutan lagi ko sa Lost in Translation. mura gyud ug Wong Kar-Wai na salida.

[MrBiddle]

ooohhh, finally... finally...


hehehe!

I left myself open to that one didn't I?

But I had to let this out of my system. And I thought Quentin and Manoj Night were childhood friends with Sofia Coppola
:-b Those two other filmmakers loved this movie.

[koto]

NINDOT !!!
ganahan ko sa mga CAst and sa build up of friendship nila did2 sa japan, wow japan my favorite destination in asia and my favorite culture, nindot gyud simple but entertaining,

[MrBiddle]

Koto,

Indy sad ni og style ang paghimo. In one occasion, they were booted out of a cafeteria while shooting.

And in an upper level restaurant, they were pretending to order lattes to steal some shots of the city.

[r/brey]

yeah i read those bits. about them having fun in japan.

anyway, i've always liked bill murray's humor. most people don't, i do. those scenes in the hospital where he was accompanying charlotte, all those subtle lines. that cracked me up.