Last Bill Translation

[Joseph Murphy]

Well, this seems to reinforce earlier points that what Sophia Coppola 
has accurately captured is a particularly narcissistic tourist Japan, 
the Japan we all universally meet in first class hotels and taxis. 
Perhaps the truth of Coppola's film is that outside of a certain 
impoverished graduate student class, that's all there really is. 
Hence, Last Samurai.
J. Murphy

>We used to sit
>around and talk about who would play us in the movie that they would make
>about our time in Tokyo.  We didn't have a Scarlett Johansson per se, but we
>did have a 22-year-old recent Ivy League graduate who was not quite sure yet
>what she wanted to do with her life. I now fancy myself in Murray's role,
>but so does every other straight male that I keep in touch with from the
>case, I think -- which just lets you know how real it was.

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