How Coppola Translates Meaning in Lost in Translation
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2022
- Video Essay - Lost in Translation 2003 Directed by Sofia Coppola
EVERYONE WANTS TO BE FOUND.
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo - the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial - find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other’s company, away from their lives in America.
- Music -
Alone in Kyoto - Air
Tha - Aphex Twin
An Ending - Brian Eno
Lost - Frank Ocean - Фільми й анімація
One of the most beautiful films ever made.
SAY IT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
This is a movie I will never get tired of watching. I could be like a 7 year old replaying Frozen.
Same I love this movie so much
I'm from Tehran, a loud, dirty, polluted and hostile city.
I couldn't connect with people. I liked being alone because of how most people made me feel alone.
Each time I tried to translate my thoughts people interrupted. I think I feel the movie title with every molecule in me 'LOST in translation'
So I kept quiet as I couldn't find the right words and when I did, I didn't have the right tone to be understood by myself, let alone others.
One night on a bus ride home at a least expected moment this girl sat next to me. Something about the tone of her voice, her stare, her style and vibe made me feel that she also sees through it all and has a shared frustration. I felt a connection... most people have a judgemental and condescending attitude but she didn't strike me as such a person... I felt peace.
I didn't have any change on me so she helped out and gave me some.
I got off the bus a little earlier than her thinking that her stop is far away but I saw that the final stop was only a short walk from where I got off.
I really regret freaking out, not talking to her and not waiting a little bit to get off the bus with her and at least chat with her a little bit and maybe get her number.
I could have used a friend. I guess I didn't because I really hate where I am from and wanted to get out and emotional attachments would make things a lot harder.
I think that was like 3 or 4 years ago.
Now I have sweet freedom in Stuttgart but I still carry some of my regrets with me. At least in that god awful Tehran I could tell if somebody is 'my kind of person'. here, things are different but for the better so It makes finding that special someone into another formula.
Lost in translation reminds me of the rare moments of peace and relatability.
Sometimes I don't want a meaning but a feeling from movies. It really is an experience!
Anyway... if you've read this far, thanks and if not, then how are you reading this?
Just remember that you also have the potential to feel the opposite of every emotion you feel.
If you feel sad, that means you can also feel happy, if you feel alone, that means that you can also feel like there is an angel on earth just for you.
Thank you for the comment and story. Thanks for those words of support. If I was in your shoes I would definitely hold on to the girl, although it's clear that it's easier said than done. It's just that it seems to be a huge deal for most girls/women to do something like approach a stranger, so I would feel the need to return the favour and would take that as a pretty big compliment. But that's secondary anyway, it's just my thoughts, I know things happened how they were supposed to happen.
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I loved reading this, and I love hearing people's experiences with film all over the world. Every day's a lesson, and every lesson a new beginning. You'll find someone
@@screen4646 Thanks, I loved watching this. Thanks for caring enough to check out the comments. it's hard for creators to find time to do that due to the high quantity.,, i appreciate it.
I first saw this movie when it was released and I thought what a great fun movie about a possible great love story! Seeing it again now I realized it’s much more sad and darker than before! Realizing that you may have made the wrong choices in life and possibilities of starting over is only a dream that will never be! I understand this because I too am lost in translation.
You're lost in the sauce bro
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well put!
Outstanding analysis of an emotionally complex and moving film. Well done and thank you!
It's one of my absolute favorite films
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Some very smart and moving analysis here. Well done.
You've summed that up so well, it's about watching the film not having sign posts to look here, where a character explains the exposition we see it in those scenes you showed us by watching the images and the way it was framed and filmed. Even their age difference is not icky but sweet.
The opening frame of Scarlet's bottom is a nice scene without being exploitive, how can it be if it was directed by a woman? Sophia knocked this one out of the park despite the criticism of some, it can't be as a bad as some say Sophia won an Oscar. Well, okay, but it was still a worthy win.
Topped off at the end with a whisper and a cracking song from the Jesus and Mary Chain which makes me cry like a little kid with scuffed knee, it's worth coming back too again & again.
Thank you for this Video essay UK, Male, 53 years old.
Amazing commentary and analysis. If this video was four days long, I'd sit here and watch it and not get enough. Amazing, thank you.
She smiles at the end. They'll meet again.
In one scene she say "We should never come to Japan again, because it wouldn't be such fun".
Man, your video felt really soothing in a way. Your analysis and delivery left me wanting more of it at the end, and I was glad to find that you have more such vids on your channel! Keep posting as I am totally looking forward to more such dope content! Subbed! :)
Such a wonderfully crafted narrative on the meaning of this, my favourite movie of all time. I could have watched this for hours. Thank you
Thank you
truly one of the hidden gems i found on netflix.... live laugh love sofia coppola
So good, thank you so much for your insights
Beautiful analysis. Thank you
Funny that she won best screenplay Oscar considering the screenplay might be the weakest part of the movie- her direction, cinematography, score and the performances she evoked are the best parts
I'm not an asexual person at all, but you just gotta love the way this film portrays such dense intimacy without ever resorting to any 'steamy' scenes or innuendo. I mean if i remember correctly, there's only a few kissing scenes which feel really really genuine and human, to me that just elevates the whole relationship of the two main characters. I kind of like a romantic character that is able to withhold sexually and just find fulfilment through shared presence and conversation, let's bring that back shall we? All contemporary media is oversaturated with sex now, to the point of it having kind of a numbing, emptying effect which honestly feels horrible. This film is such a strong antidote to that through the way it just studies friendship intertwined with some romantic tension between two people, but a tension that is kind of.. full of genuine love, ellegant, sentimental, beautiful, never cheap. We need more stuff like this.
My all time favorite film. I love it as much as someone would love a human being. It's as perfect as something can be, in my opinion.
My fav as well watched it at a 20th anniversary screening last year
This is such an underrated movie. Saw this movie when it first came out in 2003 and I instantly loved it because I knew nothing about the movie so I had zero expectations. Have seen this movie countless times since then.
Incredible breakdown. Thank you!
kisses for you
I loved this, thank you
Wonderfully done!
Connection. Very good. Tokyo more than neon it seems, but they had fun in the city. Hello Sophia. JAMC had a bit of luck with feedback, I had the same with static or something. Sounds like the wind, outdoors, a pleasant shower of rain. Nutrients for the trees and flowers etc.
Such a great analysis! I also noticed Coppola’s use of shape; in particular the triangle. I assumed it’s a motif stemming from Mt Fuji but wondered if it had any other meaning.
This is such a well made video
This film is the absolute embodiment of charm
The song was a nice touch
great video, keep up with ur work, it's very good
This was perfect.
beautiful!
Wow. Im just in minute 3:30 and my mind is already blown.
I can't relate to this movie more in my own country I'm constantly surrounded by friends and family but no one really... gets it i wish i had my own Charlotte not for any romantic feelings but just for someone who.. gets it. Its a perfect movie
About bloody time
Excelente análisis. Inolvidable película ❤
So touching ❤
This movie is beautifully
Hm, I wouldn't say it was plotless without plot point. They're just very subtle, like the taste of lacroix lol
The 2000s… the last great decade for all forms of entertainment and culture.
For once I was blind now I see. Thank you.
Probably my favorite film
it's up there
Man, this video is dope!!!!
YOU'RE DOPE
3:29 I was under the impression that Scarlett was too shy to pose, so Coppola posed instead
I'm pretty sure that's the case!
i truly think sofia is an amazing director and has a nice way of visually representing what she wants to let us know
however she can truly use some help when writing, coz imo a movie has to be more dynamic in all aspects, not one maxed out and the rest barely touched
Why does the Mossad think I'm being manipulative? What purpose would it serve? I'm dying. I love individuals but not any government. I understand why people want revenge on me but I'm sincere in my sorrow for people I harmed. I might have evil inclinations but I'm not a psychopath. I see emotions in people and I can empathize with them.
May I hear your thoughts on Charlotte please? You did great analysis on Bob but what about her. What does she represent. Where was she walking to? And where was she going? Still searching for her meaning? Tbh I may be off the boil bit I thought she was going to do something as she lost him and him coming back gave her that recharged as in the film we never see her be that emotional till he hugged and kissed her j7st like to hear your thoughts on her please
I honestly think they should not have kissed at the end. It would have emphasised that what they had isn't about romance, lust, or love. Their connection transcends all of that which I think is the main point of the movie, and I think having them kiss ends up undermining this.
How do you abandon something like that girl.
We don’t quite know if he did abandon her. Some would interpret the scene of Bon whispering to her at the end to be a plan to reconnect. It’s possible that they did decide to get together in the states and divorce their spouses. Or he could have just said something nice to her with no intent to ever meet her again. That’s the beauty of that last scene it’s your own interpretation.
Dude come on part of Bill Murray’s contract was to play golf
I know, but it doesn't mean that the director can't find a way to include it into the story thematically. A bad director would just implant a golf scene into the script without a purpose, whereas Sofia takes it as an oppurtunity to develop his character. Contract or not, it doesn't really matter, it's about how it's implemented and shown that's important!
I disagree that plot is important in a novel. I'd say that meaning and technique are everything and plot is purely incidental. The whole modernist era is proof of that. People are obsessed with plot, when the reality is plot couldn't matter less. Meaning and delivery are everything.
Screen 4 What is your take on the criticism that this movie has received as being orientally racist?
It's definitely a complicated one, I think that it's justified criticism. The film does perpuetuate a westernised view of south east asia for humour, and there's a fine line in that between racist and ignorant.
Ultimately my connection to the film comes from the love of watching these two opposites attract as they find solice within each other, in an enviroment that they're not used to. It's certainly a valid argument that the film simply represents their distorted and alienated view of Japan, as foreigners that have never visited it before. The kareoke, the gacha bars, broken english and low shower heads are a disillusioned westerners viewpoint of a country they've never been to before.
I think it's hard to really pinpoint if that approach is just simply being racist, or if it's just a reflection of a crew that took a script to Japan for the first time, and made a film about two American's being lost in a city they didn't understand. Everything about both the enviroment and the characters they meet is purposefully meant to juxtapose the two main leads, to create more and more of an isolated feeling, seperate and detatched from a world they don't quite get. The same story, wouldn't of worked so well in America, because the emotionality of being lost, both in their own lives, and their enviroment, wouldn't of hit so hard.
Buuuuttttt, I do see why people say that the film has those connotations, and they're right. It's just a fine line that I haven't really made my mind up on yet.
@@screen4646 If you have to think about it all that much, it probably isn't racist. But hey, there's not a lot of virtue points to be gained from that position.
Good job.
Well Done!