<div class="gmail_extra">I saw it in japan on dvd so I missed out on the subtitles. must find an english copy of it now. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Perhaps the subtitler was a Murakami Haruki fan and wanted to add extra effects to capture the essence of his style?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Peter Larson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pslarson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">pslarson2@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Also, I will have to pay more attention to what happens in my town!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Mark Nornes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu" target="_blank">amnornes@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>In that Cannes thread, Pete mentioned,</div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span style="TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;TEXT-INDENT:0px;BORDER-COLLAPSE:separate;FONT:medium Helvetica;WHITE-SPACE:normal;LETTER-SPACING:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px">Sad to say that I missed Norwegian Wood at the Michigan Theater recently, speaking of.<span> </span><br>
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<div>I was there. I liked it, especially the stunning use of landscape. But what intrigued me the most were the subtitles. The positioning harked back to the talkie era, when there were films that placed subtitles _between_ lovers talking. </div>
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<div>Lovers talking account for about 90 percent of this film, and they're often shot in striking close-up. Tranh often puts the couple on one side of the frame or another, and the subtitler has chosen to follow them back and forth. S/he shortens the lines and places them squarely between the two people. It was a nice, abusive, technique. </div>
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