This isn’t how I actually would review the movie, it’s just they way i had to to do it for a class assignment.

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Lost in Translation, this is a movie in which tells the story of a out of work, 40-year-old actor and a young fresh out of college female meeting in Tokyo, Japan. These two meet and they have one of the best time of their lives. These two have no sexual attraction to each other, though if they were closer in age there might have been, but there relationship goes far beyond that.  This movie is directed by the famous Sofia Coppola, with her raw talent and knack for writing she takes this story and runs with it. In this movie many things that we have learned in Introduction to Mass Communications about films can be applied to this film. This movie had one star and one star only, Bill Murray. Around him he has many actors, though not stars, but are known as trained professionals. They all provide support for his role. These trained professionals include Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribsi, and Anna Faris. Just to inform, during the making of this movie Scarlett Johansson was not the star she is now. Some claim that this movie was her big break into stardom. In this film the product placement was obvious and was not trying to hide itself. Bob Harris, Bill Murray’s character, is in Japan to do a shoot for a Japanese Whiskey known as Suntory Times (サントリ). So throughout this movie that whiskey is advertised because it shows him doing a photo shoot for it, shooting a commercial, and even drinking it in a bar scene. Suntory whiskey is in this movie many times, you have to be DEAD not to spot it. There is only one account of a stereotype in this movie. There is a scene in which Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson discuss why Japanese people switch the r and l’s when they speak English. Among characters there are no stereotypes, no one is playing a certain role in which people would expect them too and is obvious.  This movie is a good movie overall. To me it is perhaps my favorite movie of all time.