3263_Hunterboy_Lost In Translation
**Posted by kingboys at 6:27 PM
Place: Tokyo
Time: 2004
Character: Bob Harries
When the movie start, it show audience a image of Tokyo which is the most prosperous city on the world.
Bob Harris is an aging movie star arriving in Tokyo to film a Suntory whisky advertisement.
He sits on the taxi to hotel and cross the windows, he sees the prosperous of Tokyo, feel amazing from this City, it is shown in its traffic, night light and population. These cars are driving, engine’s voice appear with road. The light make city look like on the morning even the time is night now. People walk around City hurriedly. Whenever he see this city, people always appear and walk on the road. This is a new place which Harries never arrive. He meet the difference lifestyle on this unfamiliar City or Country.
Tokyo is capital City of Japan, The Tokyo Metropolitan government administers the twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, that cover the area that was the city of Tokyo as well as 39 municipalities in the western part of the prefecture and the two outlying island chains. The population of the special wards is over 8 million people, with the total population of the prefecture exceeding 13 million. The prefecture is part of the world's most populous metropolitan area with 35 to 39 million people and the world's largest metropolitan economy with a GDP of US$1.179 trillion at purchasing power parity in 2004.
Tokyo was named the world's most expensive city for expatriate employees
From Harries’ face, we see a lonely expression when he focus on advertisement logo, brand name and advertisement banner, his business is ready go down, he come to city for an advertisement. Only him come to Tokyo, unfamiliar Country, not with family, agent. His family maybe cares his income more than his emotional life. But he still work on this environment.
He is not belong to this City, he just a passer for Tokyo during these days. There is an image about he sees his advertisement when he sits on taxi. It remind him where he is from, what job he is need to do, he still need back that place which he belong.
In other’s word, it is a culture contrast. Harries is an American, a sign of American culture and Western Culture. Tokyo is an Asian City, another sign of Japanese culture and Eastern Culture. Harries feel not confidence living in this unfamiliar City. All things he doesn’t understand and know. He hasn’t friends or family on here. He is a lonely man for this City.
It is a key explain for this character. It also an important link the rest part of this film, what is lost? What is lonely?
From beginning of film, director is building an environment to describe endless of loneliness. Until that moment, they meet each other.
Now he lost his own direction in the vast City, Showing the infinite loneliness, looking for self-realization stage, he is a City rover.
Besides, music is other key part of this film. When harries focus on this City, music is start playing.
When heard music, it build an image on their brain. It brings audience to a familiar feeling and environment.
That kind of loves about depths of the isolation, don’t want to rush the eyes and smile, the expression of twists and turns that inner pain, the stretches from other to see their dream of loneliness.
As the bottom of this music, romantic, beautiful, pure and simple, people don’t consider too much into the role unconsciously active, exhausted in emotional resonance circle. So it can catch audience’s eye.
From this scene, we can feel some things that same with character.
Life is still continue, the City is still noisy.
There has never been a place that people can forget the lonely, even in this bustling City, for different purposes, the reason we are hurtling in the crowd. Punctuality of hurting subway as a train, repeated every time a particular work the same
According to the same rule, we can go to a point through the end of the city to another point which the other places you want. The background set off a kind of conventional transformation, unconsciously in the constant search of lost.
Movie from the outset of these typical elements of Oriental Culture into each chapter, ease of editing rhythm, quiet sound ,fill the gap scheduling ,near-perfect film to create a whole a atmosphere, tactful deep.
