Scene Analysis
September 17, 2010

Lost in Translation 2003
Sofia Coppola



1.SCENE OVERVIEW




Lost in Translation share a dreamy quality and relaxed pace that you're either going to love or hate, with the right mindset, there's no doubt that Lost in Translation has the potential to come off as a tremendously moving human drama.




The film centers around two Americans in Japan: Bob Harris is a popular American actor in town to shoot a high-paying whiskey commercial, while Charlotte is the wife of a famous photographer who's killing time by decorating her hotel in everyday . Both characters spend a lot of time in the hotel's bar, where the two finally strike up a conversation. They begin to get to know each other through various excursions outside of the hotel, and quickly become good friends.


When two people meet each other understand the language when you do not need more, because the eyes that point, a common loneliness, emptiness and despair, there is no way to get Bob Harris and Charlotte do not catch the cavity. Because they know each other in their ages, two people can not integrate into the beautiful downtown to find a foreign land communication between the vocabulary, they eat together, sing karaoke OK, with silencely, with the confusion ... ... Harry’s eyes only a little more care, Charlotte's eyes only a little more happy, their eyes in Tokyo This presents some real life, have feelings, and not busy walking hurriedly after the cold . Tokyo, so someone do not want to leave. However, the reality of life in the face of the total presentation, there will naturally together that are scattered, since the restraint, it will have to exercise restraint to the end.



The two guys soon strike up a friendship based as much on emotional need as the fact that they are strangers in a very strange city.




However, she spends most of the time alone. Bob and Charlotte's first few encounters are casual - on an elevator, in a bar. Gradually, however, they begin to seek out one another and a bond develops. The two eventually spend nearly every waking hour together, holding deep conversations and finding ways to avoid the eventual parting that both know must occur.

2.SHOT ANALYSIS




The scene I chose that from 01:09:48 to 01:11:05.It is conversation between Bob and Charlotte to discuss about their marriages, their happiness and the meaning of it all.
Mise-en-scene:
This is Bob’s room .two character are Bob and Charlotte……
Colours:
This scene is in Bob’s room .They are lying on his bed after drinking on the night ,so the most of colour is grey around them
Lighting:
There is a little yellow light. They are talking under the dark place.
Sound;
There is no sound effective beside for their dialogue words. they are very quite ,Sometimes Charlotte is looking Bob to listen his marriage and how will to be in the future to come true her dream.




Character movements:
From 01:09:48 to 01:10:10 Charlotte and Bob are looking ceiling with raising their heads. From 01:10:10 to 01:10:30 Charlotte is turning to see Bob. From 01:10:30 to 01:11:00 Bob is also turning to see Charlotte, they are looking and talking each other.
The color complex, but not too much expression, not much dialogue. But every owner of the dialogue between men and women, is a humorous and vivid philosophy course. Charlotte asks Bob, are older is not the same view of life, and Bob replied, perhaps, a little bit. Charlotte, consider the unborn child will end after the birth of her self-life, and Bob replied, to live once, they are actually the same.



Cinematography:






Shot-type: Mix; Camera movement: tracking ;Camera Angle: no



















Shot-type: Mid-shot; Camera movement: zoom in; Camera Angle: no









Shot-type: CU; Camera movement: zoom in; Camera Angle: over shoulder

The two lie on the same bed with the actors, but nothing happened between them, but with nothing to fall back heart to another person what they loss themselves. Against the background of the night, this loss is particularly prominent.

This is Charlotte and Harris between the dialogue in the bed at night. The light of room is dim, but the mood is not low profile. Photographers take full advantage of the depth of the window at night, and by the natural space radiation to the light, make this scene a romantic nature, interesting, and has a meaningful significance. "Playful" side is reflected in the end of this period as a "full stop" in that scene: the right of the screen facing the ceiling sleep Harris, left Charlotte in the body curled up, like a monkey like sleeping in Harris's side, the camera is ninety degrees angle from the ceiling to the front overhead down.

At the end of film,Charlotte once again walking in the street, but this time she did not have no previous sense of direction, she found a life goal, find the power of life to continue walking, from the chaos of life came out. Harris left Tokyo, but also marked him out of the "lost" the shadow, to find a new life path.

The city of Tokyo, and here is no longer a simple city, but it is a road, a magic, a magic power of the road. With the same as Harris, we like to mind from wondering, and he relieved his feelings to be away, all of them were in one.