{"id":4767,"date":"2004-04-22T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/httpblogslawharvardeduceerock4\/2004\/04\/22\/more-on-lost-i"},"modified":"2004-04-22T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T18:02:02","slug":"more-on-lost-in-translation-but-no-ass-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2004\/04\/22\/more-on-lost-in-translation-but-no-ass-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Lost in Translation (but no ass this time)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a632'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;<EM>Lost in Translation<\/EM> represents a significant departure from the predictable depiction of romance. The presence of actors who actively transform their screen personas adds a further layer of irony. These films display little concern with reinforcing screen personas, in fact, they actively work against typage.&#8221; &#8211;Wendy Haslem in <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sensesofcinema.com\/contents\/04\/31\/lost_in_translation.html\">Senses of Cinema<\/A>, via <A href=\"http:\/\/daily.greencine.com\">Greencine<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P>This couldn&#8217;t be more wrong. While I *love* Bill Murray in <EM>Lost in Translation<\/EM>, he is playing <EM>exactly<\/EM> his type. The movie was MADE around his type. Sofia Coppola pretty much even says that herself. In fact, that&#8217;s the only criticism I&#8217;ve heard of Bill Murray&#8217;s performance&#8211;that it&#8217;s the same role he played in <EM>Rushmore<\/EM> and many many other films. That the film rides on Bill Murray&#8217;s tired back. That the film&#8217;s success really has nothing to do with Coppola and everything to do with Murray&#8217;s schtick, which is the same schtick it&#8217;s always been, only here it&#8217;s in a different context and being appreciated by a new audience for new reasons. But it&#8217;s still the same old schtick. You want old and tired and funny and ironic and arrogant and smart and successful and jaded and self-mocking and vulnerable? See Bill Murray (or David Letterman).<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lost in Translation represents a significant departure from the predictable depiction of romance. The presence of actors who actively transform their screen personas adds a further layer of irony. These films display little concern with reinforcing screen personas, in fact, they actively work against typage.&#8221; &#8211;Wendy Haslem in Senses of Cinema, via Greencine This couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58QoK-1eT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}