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* AluminumChristmasTrees: When the film was made, it was still a dirty secret that A-list celebrities would go to Japan to hawk local merchandise because there was little chance of their embarrassing ads getting back to the western world. In modern times, however, it's become quite normalized for even the biggest celebrities to appear in ads.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: This trope applied for a short window of time after the film's release. When the film was made, it was still a dirty secret that A-list celebrities would go to Japan to hawk local merchandise because there was little chance of their embarrassing ads getting back to the western world. In modern times, however, it's become quite normalized for even the biggest celebrities to appear in ads.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, kids, in the pre-Internet days A-listers like Creator/JodieFoster or Creator/HarrisonFord (almost certainly the inspiration for Bob Harris) could go to Japan and make a quick buck endorsing some product in a commercial that their Anglophone fans would never see.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, kids, in When the pre-Internet days A-listers like Creator/JodieFoster or Creator/HarrisonFord (almost certainly the inspiration for Bob Harris) could film was made, it was still a dirty secret that A-list celebrities would go to Japan and make a quick buck endorsing some product in a commercial that to hawk local merchandise because there was little chance of their Anglophone fans would never see.embarrassing ads getting back to the western world. In modern times, however, it's become quite normalized for even the biggest celebrities to appear in ads.
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* ValuesDissonance: The humor consists of mocking Japanese culture and considering it weird.
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* ValuesDissonance: The humor consists of mocking Alienation from the foreign Japanese culture and considering it weird.around them is a major part of what drives the characters' journeys. Certain depictions of Japanese culture, however, stray close to negative stereotypes. Most notable is the unrequested prostitute who begs Bob to ravish her, riffing on the stereotypes of Japanese people as repressed perverts with funny accents.
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SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{North}}'', as both films mock not-white-American culture for laughs and shows white American protagonists unconformable with the culture and both films even feature a young Creator/ScarlettJohansson.
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SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{North}}'', as both films mock not-white-American culture for laughs and shows white American protagonists unconformable with the culture and both films even feature a young Creator/ScarlettJohansson.
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* AmericansHateTingle: While the film was very well received overall, many Japanese people as well as Asian-Americans bristled at what they felt was an insensitive portrayal of Japanese society.
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* AmericansHateTingle: While the film was very well received by Westeners overall, many Japanese people as well as Asian-Americans bristled at what they felt was an insensitive portrayal of Japanese society.
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While North and Lost in Translation are guilty of insensitive cultural portrayals, that similarity is insufficient to qualify one film as a spiritual successor of the other; especially when the overall direction and narrative of both films could not be anymore different from each other.
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL_urpYJZUI&hd=1 Alone In Kyoto]]" by Music/{{Air}} is a wonderfully dreamlike electronic piece that plays during one of the scenes. It was beautifully placed.
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL_urpYJZUI&hd=1 Alone In Kyoto]]" by Music/{{Air}} Music/{{Air|Band}} is a wonderfully dreamlike electronic piece that plays during one of the scenes. It was beautifully placed.
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** Creator/ScarlettJohansson wasn't nominated for Best Actress.
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* HilariousInHindsight: When Charlotte is riding the subway, she looks down at a man who is reading ''Manga/GhostInTheShell''. Creator/ScarlettJohansson would go on to star in ''Film/GhostInTheShell''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: When Charlotte is riding the subway, she looks down at a man who is reading ''Manga/GhostInTheShell''. Creator/ScarlettJohansson would go on to star in ''Film/GhostInTheShell''.''Film/GhostInTheShell2017''.
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The film is largely remembered as the one that begins with Creator/ScarlettJohansson being seen wearing see-through panties.
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* AmericansHateTingle: While the film was very well received overall, many Japanese critics bristled at what they felt was an insensitive portrayal of Japanese society.
* AwardSnub:
** Some feel this was robbed of the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Best Picture Oscar]] by ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'', and chiefly attribute that movie's win to the previous two installments also getting nominated for the same award but losing. Or else, if they'd prefer that one of the other Best Picture nominees that year had won instead (''Film/MysticRiver'', ''Film/MasterAndCommanderTheFarSideOfTheWorld'' and ''Film/{{Seabiscuit}}''), they feel that those films and ''Lost in Translation'' were in a class apart.
** For more than some, Creator/BillMurray's loss for Best Actor to Creator/SeanPenn for ''Film/MysticRiver'' was this, along the same lines as Creator/MickeyRourke's loss to Penn five years later.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL_urpYJZUI&hd=1 Alone In Kyoto]]" by Music/{{Air}} is a wonderfully dreamlike electronic piece that plays during one of the scenes. It was beautifully placed.
** The splendidly melancholic, but hopeful, "Just Like Honey" by Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain, as the closing song.
* BestKnownForTheFanservice:The film is largely remembered as Given how hard it can be to explain the one that begins with movie's plot, most people usually remember this movie because of how often Creator/ScarlettJohansson being is seen wearing see-through panties.in her panties.
* HarsherInHindsight: Charlotte's troubled relationship with her husband is based, at least in part, on Creator/SofiaCoppola's relationship with her then-husband Creator/SpikeJonze. She and Jonze divorced shortly after the film released.
* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: If you ''still'' had any doubts about Creator/BillMurray's acting talents...
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Many, but particularly the conversation in bed ("You're not hopeless"), their reconciliation after the fire alarm, and the ending farewell, which also counts as a TearJerker.
* HilariousInHindsight: When Charlotte is riding the subway, she looks down at a man who is reading ''Manga/GhostInTheShell''. Creator/ScarlettJohansson would go on to star in ''Film/GhostInTheShell''.
* TheWoobie: Bob and Charlotte, two lonely souls drawn together in a land and in lives where they feel shut out. The film invites audiences to relate to them as such, as Ebert states that the film is "an exercise in empathy."
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* AwardSnub:
** Some feel this was robbed of the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Best Picture Oscar]] by ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'', and chiefly attribute that movie's win to the previous two installments also getting nominated for the same award but losing. Or else, if they'd prefer that one of the other Best Picture nominees that year had won instead (''Film/MysticRiver'', ''Film/MasterAndCommanderTheFarSideOfTheWorld'' and ''Film/{{Seabiscuit}}''), they feel that those films and ''Lost in Translation'' were in a class apart.
** For more than some, Creator/BillMurray's loss for Best Actor to Creator/SeanPenn for ''Film/MysticRiver'' was this, along the same lines as Creator/MickeyRourke's loss to Penn five years later.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL_urpYJZUI&hd=1 Alone In Kyoto]]" by Music/{{Air}} is a wonderfully dreamlike electronic piece that plays during one of the scenes. It was beautifully placed.
** The splendidly melancholic, but hopeful, "Just Like Honey" by Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain, as the closing song.
* BestKnownForTheFanservice:
* HarsherInHindsight: Charlotte's troubled relationship with her husband is based, at least in part, on Creator/SofiaCoppola's relationship with her then-husband Creator/SpikeJonze. She and Jonze divorced shortly after the film released.
* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: If you ''still'' had any doubts about Creator/BillMurray's acting talents...
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Many, but particularly the conversation in bed ("You're not hopeless"), their reconciliation after the fire alarm, and the ending farewell, which also counts as a TearJerker.
* HilariousInHindsight: When Charlotte is riding the subway, she looks down at a man who is reading ''Manga/GhostInTheShell''. Creator/ScarlettJohansson would go on to star in ''Film/GhostInTheShell''.
* TheWoobie: Bob and Charlotte, two lonely souls drawn together in a land and in lives where they feel shut out. The film invites audiences to relate to them as such, as Ebert states that the film is "an exercise in empathy."
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The film is largely remembered as the one that begins with Creator/ScarlettJohansson being seen wearing see-through panties.
