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Sweet Nothings: The Lost Words of Lost In Translation, Translated

Posted by Andrew Osborne

YouTube?  Rules.

I know: not exactly news. But I am nevertheless continually astonished by the lost treasures I stumble across there in the digital equivalent of that infinite warehouse in Raiders of the Lost Ark (and, apparently, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).

Recently, I blogged about the amazing (to me, anyway) discovery of the lost Biggs scenes from Star Wars. And today, while searching for clips for an upcoming post, I suddenly stumbled across an audio-enhanced reworking of the penultimate scene from Lost In Translation, where Bill Murray whispers something mysterious and romantic in Scarlett Johansson’s ear, something that we the audience never got to hear...

...until now.

Now, as the wise YouTube poster vid22dotcom cautions, “If you REALLY don't want to KNOW. PLEASE SKIP THIS VIDEO.” If you think it’s more satisfying NOT knowing what BiMu says to ScarJo (in the same way it was 1000 times more satisfying NOT knowing that the interior of the Mothership in Close Encounters just looked like a bunch of cheesy “Special Edition” effects), then DON'T click on the video clip below.

But you know you wanna click it, right?


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Comments

Coog said:

I always said that if they ever did figure it out I didn't want to know.

Then I pushed play on this video.

I stopped it at :58.

Oh god I'm torn.

April 17, 2008 12:37 PM

lilhuna said:

it's exactly as i hoped, it's good to know i had the right feeling!

go ahead, push to button.  it won't ruin a thing.

April 19, 2008 8:25 PM