Japanese-American view of Lost in Translation
More often than not, I would prefer to watch a movie I haven't seen than one that I absolutely adore. I simply get restless with my movies, music, books, and other media. However, it seems that I am coming to a point where I am definitely interested in watching films that I have seen 5, 10 years ago.
Yesterday, Capree and I watched Lost in Translation. There were a few things that time and changing of perspective have done for me with this film:
Scarlett Johansson looks really little in this movie.
She is supposed to be playing a 20s-something who just got married, but definitely looks like a teenager. When filming this movie, she had to be 17 or 18. She's come a long way.
The movie is definitely not rascist.
When I saw this movie the first time, I wasn't sure if Sofia Coppola was portraying the Japanese very respectably. The "Lip My Stocking" scene is hilarious, but it felt like it was playing on the core stereotypes that American's think of with the Japanese. After viewing it yesterday, I realized quite the opposite. Someone so fixated with showing the Tokyo landscapes, and shooting on location shows a tremendous amount of interest, fascination, and ultimately respect for the Japanese culture. The link I posted above is a reading by a Japanese-American women who felt that it was in fact that the Japanese were frustrated and placating their American guests. See quote above.
Bill Murray is wearing eyeliner for quite a bit of the movie.
I definitely missed this one the first go around, but after I watched the behind the scenes footage, they made note of his makeup artists putting some sort of eyeliner on him. Throughout the entire movie, he had dark circles around his eyes that were more than his trademarked natural droopy eyed look.
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