Lost and found
08/05/2005 @ 5:00 pm
Scarlett Johansson, who co-starred with Bill Murray in Sofia Coppola’s global hit “Lost in Translation” is doing very well, post-LIT, thank you.
In a recent interview, the 21-year-old Johansson, who stars in the current movie “The Island” and has a new Woody Allen film opening soon, was asked:
Reporter:
How much did the movie “Lost in Translation”mean for your career, and how big a step forward was it for you?Johansson:
It was a huge step for me. You know, we didn’t think anyone was going to see the movie. We were just kind of making it, for us. And when people liked it, it made a big difference. It was amazing, it really was.
Well, no one saw it in Japan…
August 5th, 2005 at 7:40 pmheh. they wouldn’t get the jokes anyway. the translations are always horrible and i dunno about you — but i always feel very self conscious seeing movies in japan. i’m the only person snickering and chuckling and could care less about sitting through the credits like everyone seems to want to do.
August 5th, 2005 at 9:31 pmon a side note, speaking of sitting thru the credits, jinkusu, WHY do they do that? all the way thru? to the very end of the very last credit? WHY? Anybody know the cultural answer?
August 5th, 2005 at 10:57 pmI’m a foreigner and I usually sit through most of the credits at movies, sometimes to the very end. I always have.
I enjoyed Eyes Wide Shut, for example, and by watching all the credits discovered that Kubrick (a big favorite of mine) hired someone to do research on Venetian masks for the film. I think stuff like that is interesting. (He also worked with a rather small crew on that film.)
I also saw the remake of The Parent Trap (for reasons I won’t go into here) and the closing credits to that were quite interesting. And you got the bonus of listening to a brief insertion of the original’s hit song into the closing music, very near the end of the credits.
I also generally think it’s interesting to know what job descriptions there are for people who make motion pictures.
August 5th, 2005 at 11:36 pmHey you know sometimes if you watch the credits to the very end you get a treat. Anybody know that at the very end of all the credits in Airplane! you get to see the guy in the cab still sitting there waiting for Ted Striker to come back with the meter still rolling. He looks at his watch and goes “Well I’ll give him five more minutes, but that’s it.”
August 6th, 2005 at 2:28 amWell,this brings up my earlier question above. Why do Japanese audiences,in general, compared to Western movie audiences, STAY for the entire credits,while in the UK and USA and Australia,people run out as fast as they can? Where do Japanese viewers learn this movie etiquette? From whom?
August 6th, 2005 at 11:15 amAnyone who left before the end of the credits missed the whole point of Spielberg’s Young Sherlock Holmes.
August 6th, 2005 at 1:21 pmI don’t know. On the other hand, why do Westerners leave the theater so early?
August 6th, 2005 at 3:06 pmCause the movie is over. Or so we think. It’s a pretty safe bet it IS, though…:razz:
August 6th, 2005 at 5:59 pmAt film festivals, people usually stay to see credits as a way of respecting the director…
The credits are actually PART of the movie, just as a book jacket is part of a book. People should NOT leave. But they do. Modern people, yuck!
August 6th, 2005 at 6:29 pmAnd anyone who leaves before all of the credits run at the end of a Farrelly brothers’ movies misses half the fun!
August 6th, 2005 at 9:39 pmThink it has something to do with trying to beat the crowd to the parking lot exit, or something.. Of course it gets negated by everybody doing it at the same time anyway. Personally, my problem is I WANT TO sit through all the credits to listen to the music and maybe catch something cool at the end, but my friends always drag me out with them early on.
Or maybe Asians are just more polite, heh.
August 7th, 2005 at 4:03 am