Lost in Translation behind the scenes

[@TryNotToHate1]

I’ve watched Lost in Translation at least 100 times over the last 15 years. It is my go-to meditation, my peaceful reminder of the simplicity of joy, even if nothing around you makes sense. No other film brings that feeling to the table. None. Scarlett and Bill are perfect examples of the ambiguity of connections, and the setting, a perfect nod to the lack of straightforward meaning in all things. Epic.

[@Jordanc87]

I've also watched it 100 times for the same reasons

[@danieljamesmead]

Same here. We went to Japan for our honeymoon and we watch it every wedding anniversary.

[@Vinnie101a]

Played to perfection by both Bill and Scarlett. Some great moments!

[@steigerwald28]

"my peaceful reminder of the simplicity of joy" ~ that is gorgeous. I just sent it the the girl I love.

[@NikiWonoto26]

same here

[@AlessandroCarpentiero]

Here's the place you come to when you've finished watching Lost in Translation, trying to cope with that feeling of emptiness that just an awesome movie can leave you with. Thanks for posting!

[@ryanrightmire1447]

I agree with you. It's like you are left searching to fill that hole left

[@AlessandroCarpentiero]

@@ryanrightmire1447 glad to hear I'm not alone :) I was just listening to the song "Alone in Kyoto" last night. Damn this is such a good movie.

[@ryanrightmire1447]

@@AlessandroCarpentiero I love the soundtrack and for awhile it's all I listened to while I worked ..haha used to have it years ago on old cassete player because CD always scratched so I always listened to it. It is great

[@Vinnie101a]

“l Decrare” - Why can’t there be a sequel with a happy ending - Found in Translation

[@Vinnie101a]

Kenolent : It’s my favorite movie. of all time. So poignant. Can really identify with it. I’ll take your suggestion and check out other movies of Sofia.

[@jeffdawson2786]

Sofia recaptures moments of joy and sadness in life that no other director seems to care about or have time for.

[@julien24ja]

I spent 5 years in Japan... And even when i go on holiday i feel different... Alone... Sometimes fun and sometimes bored... Disconnected... So many people around but empty and full in same time... Summer makes you feel full and wanna be alone... Winter makes you feel sad, alone and wanna meet people... I often watch this movie to remember this feeling...the feeling that I'm alive... Weak and nothing on this earth... Tokyo makes you feel like that.

[@Nadi955]

This is so well said. I screen shot it to remind me

[@muxinedrisch]

Fall, 2004 or so. 9am in the morning. I was alone at the press screening in one of the most impressive cinemas in Vienna, the Gartenbaukino, and this movie had a huge impact on me. Thanks Everybody involved.

[@NikiWonoto26]

lucky you...

[@EpicHotCheese]

One of the greatest film ever made. I just keep coming back every so often.

[@mootpointmusic7627]

Watching Lost In Translation is like putting on a great album... obviously it helps that the soundtrack is pretty much the best of all time.

[@19E37-e3i]

I lived something much like this story a year or so earlier staying at the Hyatt Regency. This movie captures the vibe so incredibly well. She was from Taipei. We were never meant to spend our lives together. And I'll always miss her.

[@gmar7836]

Hard to believe this great film is almost 20 years old!

[@ShermerHighSchool]

Thank you so much for sharing that. I went to Tokyo and sat at the exact same spot Bill is at the Park Hyatt. Being in Tokyo, and sitting there at the bar, was a religious experience through and through. Everybody who loves this movie should go to Japan at least once in their life. Life changing experience!

[@agcouper]

How expensive is that place?

[@andgate2000]

I did the same.....but in tokyo now 2024...they've closed the park hyatt for renovations....7000mls and I can't go to the bar....ahhhhh

[@felipedraper]

Stunned by the amount of work in a “alternative” movie. So gigantic project, so many people and stuff

[@arievrolijk6947]

Ah this movie ❤ Watched it tens of times. Every time I discovered something new. Scarlett is great, Bill even greater but Sofia is the greatest. She made it. It’s so quiet, subtle, lovely. I don’t think there’s ever gonna be a movie so beautiful as this one.

[@ammramy]

I just saw a interview with Scarlett were she said she felt isolated from the rest of the crew. You can see it in this documentary. It may have been an accident or it may have been a way to get Scarlett to better portray loneliness and depression.

[@joewoodley6625]

probably because she was 17

[@GiantSandles]

I wouldn't imagine it's the latter, the whole thing is that those two characters are feeling the same way but I doubt Bill was actually isolated on set on purpose

[@andgate2000]

Thats because she was 17 and everyone else were adults.

[@ADifferentVibe]

she was 17 and her mom was with her through the shoot. I'm sure it was just them doing their things when they weren't shooting and rest of the adult cast/crew did theirs.

[@OathOfDruid]

Apparently it was because Sofia (director) was so focussed on Bill that she forgot about Scarlett. I read that she also didn't mention her when she won the Oscar for best script...

[@azoique]

Absolute gem of a movie. One that leaves you all warm, happy, but a little sad as well.

[@fomorians]

I just realized that Bill Murray was literally just being himself in the film, which adds even more of my enjoyment to it haha.

[@patriciaanne4126]

My favorite movie!! Adore all of this! Thanks to all who made this magic happen!!! Bill Murray is amazing! Scarlett stunning! Thank you Sophia!!!!!

[@sadskateshop]

This is such a vibe. Hope Scarlett would do similar feel movie, marvel stuff took her time so much

[@temmahadumrongkul6730]

Just cuz you're a "sophisticated cinephile" doesn't mean you have to bring up Marvel in the conversation all the time. lol.

[@temmahadumrongkul6730]

Oh and Marvel didn't "take her time so much", she chose to do be in those movies :)

[@aps2254]

@@temmahadumrongkul6730 It does,there are many actors out there did'nt cast for em' marvel movies cause they might stuck with it, just like chris evans,hard to see him on other movies expect those marvel thing (human torch/captain america)

[@nikitablank4198]

She probably the one with the most lucrative career outside the mcu though? Since iron man 2, she has starred in one of the decade’s best Arthouse film (under the skin) and films in general (Her). Award winning satire (jojo rabbit), auteur drama (marriage story), r-rated action movie making 100x more of it’s budget back (Lucy), a coen brother’s ensemble (hail, Caesar), feel good movie (chef), and one of MCU most memorable movie (TWS). I’d say she’s doing better than most acclaimed actresses outside the mcu even.

[@delrey874]

She was wonderful again at Marriage Story.

[@koizumin-123]

19:26 「誰に向かってモノ言ってるんだよ」 ちゃんと聞き取れるｗ

[@misubi]

My favorite part is that Japanese crew man who says she is so sweet. Sweet child of mine.

[@yuyutubee8435]

It struck me as creepy, given Japan's general fetishization of teen girls.

[@RJ-cq8dd]

This material is gold.

[@ΚωνσταντίνοςΝικόλης-χ2σ]

I very much needed to see this behind the scenes of my favorite movie

[@PerryCuda]

1:02 I'm confused. Here's Spike Jonze, and this is October, 2002. The character Ribisi plays is unflattering, and 100% based on Spike Jonze. Also the blonde air head actress is based on Cameron Diaz who suggestively had an affair with Ribisi (Jonze). Jonze and Sofia divorced a year later, following the film's release - September 2003. It's said both he and his friends were incensed by the portrayal. Wouldn't Jonze have read the script in 2002 and known he was about to get put on blast?

[@richardvoncline]

it's interesting right. their relationship must have been falling apart real time. it speaks that he isn't behind the camera in the later half of this documentary though

[@EricMalette]

Yep. Here's the real dig: Scarlet starred in his divorce film that came much later: Her. Also, Rooney Mara was very much supposed to be Sophia.

[@alxsrt7931]

2:45 "That could be the poster" It was!

[@CommentCritic]

This is vlogging 2003 style. I fucking love it.

[@seungkim4545]

6:37 look at how fastly mom snaps her son's right hand kk it's considered non-polite in japan to use left hand when they shake hands

[@GeorgeMillerUSA]

seung kim Thanks for letting us know that!

[@joanacatbagan]

Thank you for posting!

[@ADifferentVibe]

Just one Oscar winning screenwriter filming a documentary on another Oscar winning screenwriter's movie.

[@stevenponte6655]

I cant believe I havent seen his before. My favourite movie. I always wondered how they shot this movie in such a crowded city! amazing!

[@abeb6781]

I could watch this all day

[@scootertart]

Thanks for the upload, love the footage of Sofia trying not to crack up with laughter while bill is doing the photoshoot scene.

[@maddymud]

You know what NO one is watching right now? Behind the Scenes of Mystic River.

[@Ruperth316]

10:42 Sofia is just a Bill Murray fan with small budget to film him in his natural state. So amazing

[@hillineta9999]

I wish they showed scarlett more

[@samueld92]

Some part of me wishes they would of captured the making of the soundtrack with Kevin Shields ❤️

[@OpelsiSq]

God how i love to watch behind the scenes of the movies

[@junior0069]

The conversation that took placeon the 22:38 min... Pure gold xD "sweet chirud ob mine"

[@mysteryinc8131]

seemed like bill was closer to the crew than scarlett

[@projectcreation]

Yeah, he’s always funny, very loose and talkative. Funny thing, there’s not one single scene in this footage with both Bill and Scarlett together, and Scarlett is missing most of the time.

[@dotbot5789]

Well scarlett was like...10 yrs old...(not literally but you know what i mean)

[@ADifferentVibe]

Well, Scarlett was 17 or 18 when she filmed this movie. She was like a kid and probably the youngest person on set. When not filming, she was with her mom who came with her to Tokyo.

[@andgate2000]

She was 17...lonely kid in a place full of adults and foreigners.

[@steveanacorteswa3979]

Great movie, great work by Sofia to pull it off

[@dotbot5789]

Thankyou for uploading this

[@isaacerickson2383]

a dream film to work on

[@rigsby1454]

Spike just disappears through this haha😂

[@richardvoncline]

he realized the film was blasting him

[@rztrzt]

The typhoon mentioned was Typhoon Higos (2002), Oct 2-4

[@AmperSand666]

Such a wonderful movie... Thanks a lot for sharing!

[@Real_SkyRipper]

thanks for the upload, i wonder if there is more than just this 30min.

[@infinitycovuk699]

Just watched this film. Great film loved it.

[@SimoDCmusic]

There are some quite remarkable moments in this footage. Luckily I still got the special feature DVD

[@TheElusivePanda]

Clip after clip of Bill and the crew, you would hardly know Scarlett is in the movie, let alone the co-star. Very weird.

[@mywhychromosome]

I think it's more, choosing what footage they are going to show. So if you have some shots of a very young (17) actress, nervous, unfamiliar with the crew etc, just being serious and a hard worker and trying to get her scenes down, and then you have Bill, infinitely more experienced, but more than that, a gregarious, funny, LOUD guy very familiar with improv, and you've got him improvising, joking around with the crew and extras etc etc, which are you going to show?

[@ADifferentVibe]

@@mywhychromosome True.

[@mywhychromosome]

@@ADifferentVibe Thanks. Maybe this is a weird thing to say "thanks" to, lol, but I say it because even one person at least confirming that my observation made sense on some level is helpful to me, haha

[@joebombero1]

She was deliberately separated from the crew to help create that isolated ennui vibe. Coppala is a genius. It works.

[@areyesrn]

Even during the awards season, Scarlett mainly stayed with her Girl With The Pearl Earring castmates while Bill, Sofia and Roman sat together

[@vinicius_teodoro]

22:30 Is that "Just Like Honey" playing on the background? The same song that ended up on the final scene of the movie?

[@fleetc]

yes

[@07markus]

9:56 he says, no police... They were filming without proper permissions and could be arrested anytime.

[@CommentCritic]

yeah, he mentions again that they didn't get arrested when filming in the subway. Which is crazy. But I guess it was worth it.

[@07markus]

@@chaybo in this case I don't think so. it's privacy issue and for sure will arrest for questioning

[@clrr8400]

"More intesity" lol (noone will know unless they watched it like a million times! "Cuto, cuto, cuto, cutoooo"

[@TheSpasmer]

In all of this, where is scarlett?

[@wmb2k5]

5:55

[@sera2775]

Sofia is absolutely stunning

[@quiksix25]

"This is my husband, he doesn't know it yet but Giovanni Ribisi plays him in the movie"

[@BandiGetOffTheRoof]

16:48 Smart kid!

[@Karrllson]

Sophia Coppola is so sweet. She had to take a lot of crap from Godfather fanboys.

[@BellaHawkes]

Looking at this video makes me realise how similar the portrayal of charlotte and john's relationship is to Sofia's and her husband's. Like how could he not tell those characters were based on them.

[@delrey874]

Poor Scarlett.

[@danieljamesmead]

CUTTO CUTTO CUTTO

[@andgate2000]

Translated..it means cutto cutto cutto

[@romanino]

@4:50 oh god, YES the pure drunkness of Japanesse in his full PRIME booze moment. on a side note I never knew about the existence of this DOC. this is a fuckin masterpiece.

[@dirkdiggler.]

This is like the anti hearts of darkness.

[@TryNotToHate1]

“For relaxing times........

[@CrashOverride557]

make it suntory time. Cut-o! Cut-o!, Cut-o 😁

[@joanacatbagan]

This was shot and recorded by Spike??

[@honeyglisten]

Joana Catbagan at the beginning she says "this is my husband" so I'd say it's likely he filmed it lol

[@zjkingsley7]

1000% Spike

[@edwassermann8368]

I wondered how much of Spike's DNA might be in the movie if he was around on set? You know, little suggestions, ideas and nudges in the "right" direction. Not that Coppola needed it, but just simple creative conversations between a filmmaker couple…

[@mywhychromosome]

@@edwassermann8368 I know she denies it, but Giovanni Ribisi's character is TOTALLY Spike Jonze. Supposedly, Anna Faris is a version of Cameron Diaz, and some of the tension there culled from the vibes between the 3 of them

[@sumayyahrahman1632]

hey you made a spotify playlist for this film right! i used to listen to it non stop hehe thenk you

[@andgate2000]

The bar is under renovation 😢.

[@zjkingsley7]

2:34 and it WAS the poster!

[@donsknots6510]

Always Spike Jonze, always.

[@maxsmirnik9032]

What was he whispering to Scarlett at the final scene? Did anyone manage to find out?

[@cyberpunkgirl6465]

“I have to be leaving, but I won’t let that come between us. Okay?”

[@lon34ngel20]

“No one will believe you” jk, i read somewhere that some think it’s about telling her husband the truth that’s why she says “ok”

[@acon2211]

6:54 is this man Kitano's son or something? lol.

[@lambsandswans]

Very Good movie ❤

[@ericiidx]

There he is! 5:52!

[@thedrunkweddingphotographer]

Anyone know what camera they used for this ????

[@user-470.th13jpg]

22:34 is so gross since she was like 17 when this was filmed. one of my favorite movies but that dude such a weirdo for that

[@STEPUUUHHH]

Thank you!

[@Fireflyorange]

can someone please tell me, because its not on wikipedia. This husband is not Spike or Thomas Mars.. who is he?

[@travgpeters1]

its spike ..you can recgonize that nauseating voice right away

[@folklore22]

Spike Jonze was Sofía's first husband, they split up a couple of years after this, Thomas mars is her second husband

[@officesa9242]

4:11

[@davidoster9055]

I've been in that Strabucks! :)

[@coreyandersson1786]

And so have I

[@danieljamesmead]

@@coreyandersson1786 Purely to get wifi

[@ArcDevErik]

I completely have not! Yeah!

[@andgate2000]

Me too

[@azt796]

thank you for this video

[@Charlesbaker3017]

Must be so hard on the actors shooting the script..out of sequence.

[@andgate2000]

All movies are made that way.

[@areyesrn]

Scarlett Johansson barely in this. I remember during awards season, she basically stayed with the Girl With The Pearl Earing cast and stayed away from Bill, Sofia and Roman. I do absolutely adore this film even though the cast apparentlyt hated each other

[@brandonhenley2540]

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dhoshi2358]

Graite 🎬🙏🏻素晴らしい🖤

[@roy_for_real2674]

This amost is lost in translation

[@oiuhwoechwe]

hahaha so much translation. surprised it ever got made!

[@kristoffersevillena7657]

It's weird to think that Scarlet Johansson was too young to drink at the kick-off party.

[@romanino]

@17:31 I'd pay with my liver to get those films

[@phillydisc9708]

I wasn't a fan of the movie, I found it a bit to negative about Japanese. But this behind the scenes is good to see everyone actually was able to cope and enjoy Japan.

[@ghplayer1992]

Isn't Sofia Nicolas Cage's sister or aunt or something what family does he have wow.

[@NevadaBoss]

Bill Murray--great living American or greatest living American? There is no third option.

[@AozoraUltra2006]

pretty sure the vlogger is spike jonze, sofia and him split idk when and he made her, i wonder why they split up

[@polypx]

Bill is the best -- sure the whole film was shot guerilla style, but it's so classic --- they got lucky but they were on top of it too

[@SmokeySkies]

She's cute,.

[@nmahangu]

Love that nose 👃

[@VFXforfilm]

Back when you needed Daddy's money to make a feature film.

[@JoeHeine]

Oy Vey!

[@shlomovenezia101]

almost as boring as the film itself

[@ing.pacolh7458]

produced by her father Affrica, the movie itself is boring like a sunday in a five stars hotel.

[@uwuis5843]

That kid is 23 now