IW: I wanted to talk a bit about the casting. We would just kind of find things like that and add them in. The Japanese politician that waves at Bob on the street, that’s not a big thing, but I didn’t know about that. IW: Did anything that occurred while you were filming inspire additions to the film?Ĭoppola: I loved to open it so if we saw a cool place we could shoot it. So it was definitely a challenge getting through all that. We were shooting late at one location, we were only about 10 minutes late - totally normal for American shoots, but there we had totally disrespected them. You can offend people without knowing you are. If you just want to ask the extra in the background to move a little bit, everything takes longer. There are just the cultural differences, the formality of things there. IW: How did you get around the language barrier?Ĭoppola: My AD was bilingual, but still everything takes so much longer. But having a mostly Japanese crew and not speaking Japanese was definitely complicated. Because the hotel had guests, the hours were just crazy. IW: What were the challenges of shooting in Tokyo? Did you have a mostly Japanese crew?Ĭoppola: I think the biggest challenge was just working with our time frame (27 days) and our low budget. I thought about it because it would have been non-intrusive, but for this I did want it on film, because it’s like a memory and a love story. He said, “They’re not even going to have film soon, you might as well get used to it!” He’s Mr. IW: Did you ever think of shooting on DV because of your constraints with space and light and so forth?Ĭoppola: Yeah, my dad tried to talk me into it. I wanted the film to look the way Tokyo looked to me when I visited. The idea was to be stealthy and shoot people and just run around Tokyo with a few crew members. You can’t get permission to shoot in the subways there. We could go into a club without people really noticing, it was almost documentary-style for some scenes. The film stock was a higher ASA so you didn’t have to light it. I talked with Lance Acord, our great DP, about how we wanted to shoot it with a small lightweight camera so that we could be mobile. IW: Can you talk a little bit about the other locations of the film - the look of Tokyo you were trying to capture?Ĭoppola: I wanted it to be based on the way a snapshot looks. It’s this weird combination of different cultures. It’s weird to have this New York bar…the jazz singer…the French restaurant, all in Tokyo. Tokyo is so hectic, but inside the hotel it’s very silent. It’s just one of my favorite places in the world.
IW: Why was the Park Hyatt in particular a good setting?Ĭoppola: I stayed there during a “Virgin Suicides” promotional/press tour. The idea for “Lost in Translation” really started when I saw Charlie perform “God Save the Queen” at a karaoke bar. A lot of the guys in the movie, like Charlie Brown, are people I’ve known for years. IndieWIRE: You were doing fashion work in Tokyo?Ĭoppola: I was taking photos, and also my friend and I had this clothing company called Milk Fed.Ĭoppola: I still like to go there. In addition to being an atypical romance and a cultural snapshot of Tokyo, “Lost in Translation” is also a laugh-out-loud comedy, thanks to Bill Murray’s impeccable performance. Though their relationship can definitely be described as “intimate,” there’s no sex involved. Soon, they are bonding over cultural differences, running off to karaoke bars with Charlotte’s hipster Japanese pals, and falling for each other. Jetlagged, confused, and lonely, Bob and Charlotte meet in the bar of the hotel where they’re staying, Tokyo’s stylish Park Hyatt.
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The film follows the unlikely, increasingly intimate friendship between two Americans stuck in Tokyo: Bob ( Bill Murray) is an aging movie star making some quick cash by appearing in whiskey ads, and Charlotte ( Scarlett Johansson) is a recent college grad confused about her life plan and mostly ignored by her photographer husband ( Giovanni Ribisi), who is in town on business. Sofia Coppola’s “Lost In Translation” has proven itself to be a sophomore smash, with mostly rave reviews, a lucrative run at the box office, several Golden Globe wins and a slew of Oscar nominations. Sofia Coppola on the set of “Lost in Translation” with Bill Murray.
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