I watched Lost in Translation again last night. I watch it once a week, or once every ten days maybe, but it usually plays in the background, I don’t really watch all of it every time. I know it by heart anyway. I guess it’s my Casablanca. But last night I watched it from beginning to end, along with M., my sister and Joe. Last time I had watched all of it, I was deliriously, childishly, deliciously happy. Now I’m down to earth again but it always lifts me up. Every time, I laugh and cry at different scenes and this time it was when he was singing karaoke "More than this" that Bryan Ferry song. I mean cry, not laugh.
But I laughed so much at the scene where he is drinking at the hotel bar, still wearing that suit they had given him for the ad, with the clips on his back to make it look like it fits him and he turns away and the clips show. Silly, I know. And there’s always that last scene where he whispers in her ear and gets in the car and she turns away and the Jesus and Mary Chain play their distorted, wonderful guitars and sing Just Like Honey: I’ll be your plastic toy. And I will be.
October 23rd, 2005 at 1:42 am
until i saw lost in translation,i thought that bill murray was a bit of a joke (yet talented).he had a whole stack of silly films under him.
but this film made me think completelydifferent of him.
i saw it at the movies with my g/f and was blown away.
it will be a dvd purchase asap.are there any decent ‘extras’ on the dvd?
October 23rd, 2005 at 5:35 am
yes! he tells more jokes. in fact he has learnt a japanese expression for “who do you think you are talking to, huh?” and he uses it all the time.
October 23rd, 2005 at 7:09 am
I really liked this film more on DVD than in the cinema or have I already told you this?
‘Broken Flowers’ was released last Friday in the UK so I’ll go next week.
October 23rd, 2005 at 8:24 am
I guess ever1 has their casablanca..mine s CITY OF ANGELS… i luv lost in translation for 1 particular sequince…She just walks out of boredom across japan, what she sees is wonderful and poetic.
October 23rd, 2005 at 8:29 am
Finn
go see Flowers and we’ll discuss it then.
Samrish
yes she makes everything look poetic, even that stupid audio self help book she has.
October 23rd, 2005 at 5:52 pm
In the last scene they whisper something to each other that the audience can’t hear, can you?
October 23rd, 2005 at 6:09 pm
they say “more than this there is nothing”
October 23rd, 2005 at 6:16 pm
Listening to ‘Just like honey’ again right now
Se efxaristo cloe, kata lathos vrethika na diavazo to blog sou, entyposiastika, xairome pou yparxoun tetioi anthropoi gyro mas.
Good night!
October 23rd, 2005 at 6:28 pm
ti teleio tragoudi e?
ti les tora, eimaste polloi!
ela pali
October 24th, 2005 at 4:39 am
“who do you think you are talking to, huh?
huh?
huh?
huh?”
is the best part!
October 24th, 2005 at 5:18 am
Joe
(sigh)yes!
October 24th, 2005 at 5:03 pm
What a wonderful film! I’m amazed everytime I see it. It’s great that it’s so deep and serious but still some scenes are hilarious.
Like that part: “Lip my stocking! Come on lip them!” lol
Oh my God, you blogged so much during the weekend I’ll have to come back tomorrow to read the rest…
October 24th, 2005 at 5:13 pm
and then she rolls on the floor and starts shouting “let me go Mr Harris!” and he just stares at her in disbelief.
October 26th, 2005 at 6:38 am
funny
just discovered that there is a hidden track of the ‘More than this’ with Murrey’s voice in the OST CD.
October 26th, 2005 at 6:43 am
i think he sings it wonderfully, although i am a big bryan ferry fan