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- Tue May 09, 2006 9:12 am
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: The 420 reference and Japanese Surfers
- Replies: 19
- Views: 24463
No, 420 is very very strongly established as meaning pot. And if I can spot something as a pot reference, everyone else should be able to! If you should, then everyone should? Are you suggesting that you have a sort of telepathic link to the rest of humanity? If I've never heard of it, how could I ...
- Tue May 09, 2006 8:55 am
- Forum: Related Films
- Topic: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Replies: 26
- Views: 32032
- Tue May 09, 2006 3:47 am
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: The 420 reference and Japanese Surfers
- Replies: 19
- Views: 24463
420 = weed isn't really that obscure though... I'd never even heard of it before I spotted this thread. Anyway, the relationships between 420 and weed mentioned here seem a bit far-fetched. They all seem a bit vague as a basis for a pop culture reference. I mean students getting together at 4:20 - ...
- Tue May 09, 2006 3:38 am
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: How Many Times Have You Seen LiT?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 35925
I've only seen it three times. I own it on DVD, but I feel that like anything fine, it's best experienced rarely, to conserve its full effect. I also find it hard to find the time for it, because it demands a certain mood and a certain restfulness from me to enable me to appreciate it properly. Plus...
- Tue May 09, 2006 3:26 am
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: One of the more interesting things I've read about "LIT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9230
after a boring party Marcello and his friends hang around on the beach where Paola suddenly reappears on the other shore of a river, trying to tell something. But a noisy wind makes it impossible for Marcello to understand anything. After an attempt to establish contact, he finally gives up and ret...
- Tue May 09, 2006 3:23 am
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: One of the more interesting things I've read about "LIT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9230
- Tue May 09, 2006 2:58 am
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: The 420 reference and Japanese Surfers
- Replies: 19
- Views: 24463
- Tue May 09, 2006 2:37 am
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: Which LiT Character are you?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 19629
- Tue May 09, 2006 1:57 am
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: Suntory whiskey
- Replies: 19
- Views: 21457
- Tue May 09, 2006 1:44 am
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: Can someone please justify the butt shot at the start?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 33816
I'm not sure why that shot needs 'justification'. What's so controversial about it? There are certainly more controversial shots in the film - e.g. the 'violence is fun' sequence where the two main characters are running from a spoof 'hitman' could be seen in a disturbing light; the nudie bar sequen...
- Tue May 09, 2006 1:29 am
- Forum: Related Films
- Topic: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Replies: 26
- Views: 32032
I bought the DVD for 'Eternal Sunshine' purely on the basis of its reviews, and was more than a little disappointed. I didn't like the characters and it seemed to me that they went out of their way to make the worst possible choices in every situation. I dragged myself through 2/3rds of the film and...
- Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:45 pm
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: is Charlotte cheating on her Husbend?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 44855
The whole Bob/Lydia thing was poorly constructed by Sofia Coppola in my opinion. Bob is probably in his 50's and has been married for 25 years, but that one kid on the phone sounds awfully young. So unless Lydia was 15 when they got married Coppola was clumsy there. We just recently had our first k...
- Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:17 pm
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: Strip club scene
- Replies: 59
- Views: 42136
I don't think John and Lydia would totally be convinced that nothing (sexual) happened, no matter how many times Bob and Charlotte would say it. It just wouldn't work. Well, if they already have relationships based on that level of mistrust, then your assertion that they both have happy marriages m...
- Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:57 am
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: is Charlotte cheating on her Husbend?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 44855
I can only assume that this would produce a crack in your united family, so was it needed? It would surely hurt your other half and we don't know if you'll ever be able to trust her as fully as before. If I reacted poorly to her confession, then it's not like I trusted her to begin with. If she say...
- Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:45 pm
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: is Charlotte cheating on her Husbend?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 44855
For me, she did cheat on John. There is a simple test to find it out: it will not be easy for her to tell him the story with Bob, to describe it honestly as it was more than a companionship or even more than friendship. The same is with Bob. Do you imagine Bob telling his wife of the whole thing? I...
- Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:38 am
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: Bob's phone!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 32784
I agree with you totally, but I really can't picture Steve Martin in LiT no matter how hard I try. He's just too funny as it is for me to imagine him in that context. I think Steve Martin is a serious actor to an even greater extent than Bill Murray. He has done far more serious roles than Bill Mur...
- Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:34 pm
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: Bob's phone!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 32784
Sorry, but my whole personality reneges against the idea that things cannot be improved upon, or that what exists is by definition the best it can be. If Sofia was gonna dump this movie if Bill wasn't available I fear she would have been making a big mistake, because I'm sure she could have found so...
- Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:50 pm
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: Bob's phone!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 32784
Well the fact that any other place and any other actors than those used are unimaginable for you doesn't necessarily prove that other locations and other actors could not be used as effectively. What exists is infinitely more imaginable than something that doesn't exist, but it doesn't prove that wh...
- Tue Dec 28, 2004 5:45 pm
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: Bob's phone!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 32784
I simply said it could have taken place in those cities. I made no argument about how effective the isolation would have been in either of those places versus Tokyo. That wasn't the point I was making, and the comparative isolation that an English-speaking person might feel in one foreign city versu...
- Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:37 am
- Forum: Lost In Translation
- Topic: Bob's phone!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 32784
Perhaps to visit this place in reality for some would mean the destruction of a fantasy that has inspired them so much. Who's to say? What you say might be true for some, but on the other hand it could easily give added weight, realism and emotional impact to the story. After all, everyone knows it...