LOST IN TRANSLATION
DIRECTOR: SOFIA COPPOLA
WRITER: SOFIA COPPOLA (WRITTEN BY)
STARRING: BILL MURRAY, SCARLETT JOHANSSON
GENRE: DRAMA
RELEASE DATE : 26 DECEMBER 2003, AUSTRALIA
Lost In Translation, which directed by Sofia Coppola, which the release date in 2003. The main actors are Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. It was Sofia Coppola’s second feature film, after The Virgin Suicides(1999).The film blends of comedy as well as more serious common in drama films. The film went on to be nominated for four Academy Awards, including: Best Picture, Best Actor for Bill Murray, and Best Director for Sofia Coppola. Coppola won for Best Original Screenplay. It was successful.
Sofia Carmina Coppola was born in May 14, 1971in New York, the youngest child and only daughter of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (nee neil) and director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather and Apocalypse Now), grand-daughter of the late composer Carmine Coppola, sister of Roman Coppola and the late Gian-Carlo Coppola, niece of her father’s siblings August Coppola and Talia Shire, and a cousin of Nicolas Cage ,Jason Schwartzman and Robert Carmine. She is an Academy Award-winning U.S. screen-writer, film director, actress and producer. She was the third female film director to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing.
She attended Mills College and the California Institute of the Arts, and interned with Chanel when she was fifteen years old. After graduating, Coppola started a clothing line called Milkfed that is sold exclusively in Japan.
Coppola married director Spike Jonze in1999 after being friends for nearly a decade, they were divorced in 2003.
The film of Lost In Translation details the “accidental”relationship that develops between Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson). Bob Harris(Murray) is an aging movie star arriving in Tokyo to film a series of ads for Suntory whiskey company. Bob’s own 25-year marriage is tired and lacking romance as he goes through a midlife crisis. Charlotte (Johansson) is a recent Yale graduate and young wife of a celebrity photographer ,John (Giovanni Ribisi),on a business trip in Tokyo. She is unsure of her present and about the man she has married. John cares his work all day, doesn’t spend much time with Charlotte. However, she spends most of the time alone. Bob and Charlotte’s first encounters are casual, on an elevator, in a bar. They both experience the differences between Japanese and American culture, and between their generations. Gradually, they begin to seek out one another and a bond develops. They spend more time together, hang out, holding deep conversations. After Bob an accident one night stay with a resident vocalist of the hotel bar, even Bob couldn’t remember anything. Charlotte found out accidently while she was asking him out for lunch together. It was tension between their friendships. After a fire alarm, they met again outside of the hotel , and she found out he’s leaving next day, she miss he. On the way to airport, Bob sees Charlotte on a crowded street and he gets out and goes to her. They two embrace as Bob whispers something in the tearful Charlotte’s ear. They kiss ,and Bob departs. And they all smile to each other.
The two posters of Lost In Translation as above, are totally showing the two characters’situation in the film, they all in Tokyo , western looking ,leaving a completely different country, looking lost through their eyes. Be lonely. Looking around, everything is new to them, never experience before, and they both feel lost in Tokyo. The first poster of Bob Harris as above, using LS (Long Shot), the background as some amazing shots of nighttime Tokyo. Bob sits on the end of the bed in a too small hotel kimono. Looking helpless, lonely, lost. The other poster of Charlotte as above, using M (Medium Shot), Charlotte stands in the street staring around the city of Tokyo. She looks lonely ,feel ling lost as well.
In Lost In Translation, Sofia Coppola used a lot of M (Medium Shot) most of the time, and also using different kind of shots, such as using POV (Point Of View), LS (Long Shot), CU (Close up),ELS (Extreme Long Shot), ECU (Extreme Close Up). And the camera movement are such as :PL (Pan Left), PR (Pan Right), PU (Pan Up), PD (Pan Down), T (Tracking Shot), ZI (Zoom in) and ZO (Zoom Out).
The beginning of the scene, POV (Point Of View), from car window, We see buildings cover in bright signs, a billboard of Brad Pitt…. It shows the character first in this place, everything feels new and strange. The POV really represent the character’s feeling about the view of Tokyo. It using T (Tracking Shot), follows the car’s moving forward, shows the night view of the Tokyo.
As audiences view of the point, Bob Harris stands in the back of crowded elevator ,surrounded by Japanese businessmen below his shoulder, using M (Medium Shot), it shows the different between Bob Harris and Japanese, the different race. It hints the huge different, and subsequence scenes.
The images below are using ELS (Extreme Long Shot) to show the view of Tokyo, PR (Pan Right) ,PL (Pan Left).
ZI(Zoom In)- ZO (Zoom Out), first Zoom in to BOB Harris ,then Zoom out to Charlotte.
The main characters meet in first time in elevator .
LS (Long Shot), to show Bob Harris in gym, helpless because the sport machine can’t stop. And the view throughout the window, explain the gorgeous hotel still have shortcoming, such as machine doesn’t have English subtitle on it, western people hard to understand. And that shows the part of“ lost ”,in this film.
It’s too short to him to get a perfect shower.
Bob Harris get in the show overlooking the view of Tokyo. The shower head is at his elbow, this hotel was not designed with him in mind. Same with the razor, it’s too small to him to use. Sofia Coppola gives a CU （Close Up）.
A lot of scenes all matches for the word call “Lost”.It match up with the film name “Lost In Translation”.
The film are using M (Medium Shot) of Bob Harris and Charlotte. It is quiet with just the muffled sound of music from the Karaoke room. She’s wearing a pink geisha wig. Bob sits down next to her. They both lean on the wall , sitting on the bench ,looking tried, go through the character’s body language. Using M (Medium Shot) can easier represents the character’s mood and feeling, and more connect with the plot.
After the Karaoke, they get a cab go back to hotel. POV ( Point Of View) from cab, Tokyo neon blurs by, it looks beautiful. It represents the characters’ view form cab, staring the outside.
The M (Medium Shot), are showing the character’s mood at the particular moment. The entertainment compere are so mad ,out of control ,excisting to see a internation star, and Bob Harris is so helpless ,follows his words which he asks him to do. The M which is easy to represent chacater’s movement, make audeience understand the sequences.
LS( Long Shot)
It shows the entertainment emcee are to funny ,and completely different with Bob Harris. The long shot ,show up the character’s movement ,and shows the culture’s different between Japanese and American.
PL( Pan Left)
M(Medium Shot), show Bob Harris hand’s movement, and his tried body while he’s making phone call.
CU(Close Up)
The camera movement are PL-PR, then from LS –M-CU. The T (Tacking shot ), is show the Bob Harris ‘s room setting and characters’s body language.
The following down the images are M, really shows Bob Harris helpless, up to the photographer controls his posture, even doing the foolish pose.
M(Medium Shot) shows the character’s mood and feeling . he doesn’t want to do so .but have to leave. And compare the different face movement between the main character and the people next to him.
LS (Long Shot)
M（Medium Shot）
Then CU(Close Up) 
T
Then the ECU (Extreme Close Up) ,to show the character Charlotte’s feeling through her eyes’ movement.
To show the character’s mood.
In this film, the director who is Sofia Coppola using quiet a lot M(Medium Shot) to represent the character’s attitude ,mood ,feeling ,movement and so on. It really gives audience a chance to know much more about what’s going on in the film. Using POV (Point Of View) to show the view of the Tokyo. Because this is a gorgeous five star hotel, it suppose to be posh, gorgeous, so the director using quiet a lot POV to show the view of Tokyo night time, throughout the highest levels of the hotel’s window. The PL, PR using for through the environment, the crowded. ECU, for strong emotional about the characters. Tracking ,for follow car’s move, or character’s movement
It was a great film. I watched several time, still love to watch it.
The Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Coppola
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