Lost in Translation Page #2

The Director (with blue contact lenses) says a few long

sentences in Japanese.

TRANSLATOR, a middle-aged woman in a coordinated outfit,

translates but it is only a short sentence now.

TRANSLATOR:

He wants you to turn, look in camera

and say the lines.

Bob wonders what she's leaving out, or if that's the way it

works from Japanese to English.

BOB:

That's all he said?

TRANSLATOR:

Yes, turn to camera.

Bob thinks let's just get it over with.

BOB:

Turn left or right?

The Translator blots her face with a tissue, and asks the

director in a Japanese sentence 5 times as long. The Director

answers her in a long excited phrase.

TRANSLATOR:

Right side. And with intensity.

BOB:

Is that everything? It seemed like

he was saying a lot more.

The excited Director says more in Japanese. Translator nods

in understanding. Bob doesn't really know what's going on.

TRANSLATOR:

Like an old friend, and into the

camera.

DIRECTOR:

(to Bob))

Suntory Time!

They get ready, and roll camera:

Bob turns and looks suavely to the camera:

BOB:

For relaxing times, make it Suntory

Time.

The Director yells something about ten sentences long. The

translator nods.

TRANSLATOR:

Could you do it slower, and with

more intensity?

BOB:

Okay.

The Translator answers for him in four sentences.

ON THE MONITOR - we see the next take: the moody lighting

shines on Bob, the camera gets closer as he stares into camera

and gives them the line.

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