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The Final Whisper in "Lost in Translation" Revealed?

slashfilm.com — When Sofia Coppola ’s Lost In Translation, one of the big topics of conversation revolved around what Bill Murray’s character whispered in Scarlett Johansson’s ear at the conclusion of the film. YouTube user Vid22 used digital processing to clear up the audio and finally reveal the answer.

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  • KickinitLegit, on 12/13/2007, -19/+13computer is being stupid. what does he say?
    • 01l0, on 12/13/2007, -6/+5no, seriously. what does he say?
    • aldenhg, on 12/13/2007, -1/+49All I heard was "I have a coconut, but I wouldn't let that comb my weenis."
      Seriously though, it's "I have to go now, but I won't let that come between us, OK?"
    • joltcola, on 12/13/2007, -8/+3something like "i have to go but i wont let this get between us"
    • GreatSunJester, on 12/13/2007, -5/+36For great justice, all your base are belong to us.
    • halavais, on 12/13/2007, -2/+51Rosebud.
      • sbluetruck, on 12/13/2007, -6/+1LMAO!!!!

        SUCH a good movie
      • Cwo655321, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6its his sled, rosebud is his sled...
        • AndrewJC, on 12/13/2007, -1/+10Thank you for saving me two boobless hours.
    • Skooma714, on 12/13/2007, -2/+18"Miranda"
    • cosinezero, on 12/13/2007, -3/+1""
    • binorgog, on 08/07/2008, -1/+8Don't tase me bro, ok?
    • AmazingAndrex, on 12/14/2007, -3/+4"Let's meet up on Facebook later. Mine is facebook.com/profile.php?id=943720114..."
  • macwisdom, on 12/13/2007, -95/+17it was a stupid movie anyway
  • MikeonTV, on 12/13/2007, -14/+510He says "I just saved 15% on my car insurance by switching to Geico"
    • pedrovoltaire, on 12/13/2007, -70/+5very funny... dugg
    • Juthan, on 12/14/2007, -4/+5Hahahaa! That's it, folks! Comments are now closed for this topic! Nothing else can be said to top this! Move along, folks. Nothing more to see here.
  • PinkFloydFan, on 12/13/2007, -45/+21He says "I smell varmint poontang, and the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think."
  • sjbdallas, on 12/13/2007, -76/+10He said "Why did you get fat for this movie? You were hot before and after."
    • deaconyermouf, on 12/13/2007, -1/+34I dunno, man. Her butt looked pretty good in that opening scene.
    • petebot, on 12/13/2007, -0/+27I actually think she looks better in this movie than before or after.
    • rspeed, on 12/13/2007, -2/+10You sir, have bad taste in women.
  • Jonjonjonny, on 12/13/2007, -5/+118I prefer ambiguity.
    • MrBabyMan, on 12/13/2007, -0/+42As much as I love that someone did this. I think what I imagine he said is better than whatever he really said. It's like whatever was in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. It's better left to the imagination.
      • bspp, on 12/13/2007, -5/+21marcellus wallace's soul was in the briefcase
      • charliekwalker, on 12/13/2007, -2/+19clearly there was a light inside the briefcase in Pulp Fiction... Same thing as in the trunk of that car in Repo Man...
        • yersoocrust, on 12/13/2007, -0/+5Those were aliens.
        • FiremanJersey, on 12/14/2007, -1/+1Ohhh... Repo Man! In the top 10 of my all time favorite movies.
      • TopherT, on 12/13/2007, -3/+1I always figured it was gold bullion by the gold light that came from it.
      • CannedMango, on 12/13/2007, -0/+10It was tacos
    • halavais, on 12/13/2007, -0/+15I won't tell you whether I do.
    • moraldebate, on 12/13/2007, -0/+14This is actually my favorite movie and to be honest, I don't feel cheated. It doesn't add anything and it doesn't take away anything.
    • dn11, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6yeah, the line is about what i thought he would say though. so no big loss
    • EatingPie, on 12/13/2007, -0/+7Yeah. For me, I saw it as a very personal moment between the two of them. Keeping the audio out of the film really emphasized how it was so personal, and meaningful for them as a couple. IE if *I* heard it, I would have been intruding upon *their* moment. A very effective technique, and it's one of the things that made this film truly great.

      -Pie
    • zach2000, on 12/13/2007, -0/+4Funny thing is...after hearing the line, everything is still ambiguous.

      So, yeah...it doesn't really matter whether you hear it or not. But I agree that not hearing the audio fuels the mystery and makes the moment much more personal. Hearing it, ultimately, means nothing as far as the film goes because it doesn't change a thing.
    • padrebuf, on 12/14/2007, -0/+2i think sofia did too.
  • tynansanger, on 12/13/2007, -5/+53In other movie news where ambiguity is ruined, Deckard's a Replicant!
    • manicleek, on 12/13/2007, -9/+4Ambiguous? That was obvious
    • 01l0, on 12/13/2007, -1/+8If thats the case then why doesn't he have a shortened life-span?
      • notBrit, on 12/13/2007, -0/+9How do you know he didn't?
        • 01l0, on 12/13/2007, -1/+2because Rutger Hauer died at the end of the movie and Deckard didn't? I guess its possible that Deckard was built after the other androids but that didnt seem to be the case from the way the plot was set up.
          • 28dayslater, on 12/13/2007, -0/+7In the director's cut, he keeps remembering a unicorn. Since they don't exist, it is an implanted memory.
          • 01l0, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2AFAIK that wasn't in the book
      • EbilPhish, on 12/13/2007, -1/+4Deckard was supposedly a newer model of replicant, probably one designed to be more human like. He also didn't have super human strength or white blood.
        • pushmouse, on 12/14/2007, -0/+4Replicants did not have white blood. You might be getting confused by Pris' makeup rubbing off on Roy.
      • TopherT, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3Well, the word is that he was a nexus 7 or something (he had to 'retire' nexus 6's). Instead of a limited lifespan if could be that there was no cap on his aging, making him immortal. Also, it could be that he would die soon along with Rachel. I only just found out about it though, never occurred to me before that digg story.
      • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -1/+2Deckard is a replicant, Ridley Scott has even said it; there's a video of it on youtube.
        • merrychristmass, on 12/14/2007, -1/+1noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...... :(
    • gr3yarea, on 12/13/2007, -0/+14Why did the other replicants give him such a severe *****-punching every time he tangled with them?
      • 01l0, on 12/13/2007, -1/+1haha
      • TopherT, on 12/13/2007, -0/+7The way it was explained to me he is nexus 7 and therefor closer to human than the nexus 6's.
      • BrandonWicks, on 12/13/2007, -0/+5Cause if you have the super strength of the androids you're hunting, you figure out pretty quick that something's up.
    • postalblowfish7, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2*****.
    • downneck, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2no wai!
    • JJVH, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3wake up, time to die!
    • DublinBen, on 12/14/2007, -1/+4He's clearly a veteran member of the dective squad in Los Angeles. He could not have built up a reputation in the short lifespan of a replicant. Harrison Ford has also stated Deckard is a human.
    • Inox555, on 12/14/2007, -0/+2The following is an excerpt from this Wired Ridley Scott interview...

      http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magaz ...

      Wired: It was never on paper that Deckard is a replicant.

      Scott:It was, actually. That's the whole point of Gaff, the guy who makes origami and leaves little matchstick figures around. He doesn't like Deckard, and we don't really know why. If you take for granted for a moment that, let's say, Deckard is a Nexus 7, he probably has an unknown life span and therefore is starting to get awfully human. Gaff, at the very end, leaves an origami, which is a piece of silver paper you might find in a cigarette packet, and it's a unicorn. Now, the unicorn in Deckard's daydream tells me that Deckard wouldn't normally talk about such a thing to anyone. If Gaff knew about that, it's Gaff's message to say, "I've read your file, mate." That relates to Deckard's first speech to Rachael when he says, "That's not your imagination, that's Tyrell's niece's daydream." And he describes a little spider on a bush outside the window. The spider is an implanted piece of imagination. And therefore Deckard, too, has imagination and even history implanted in his head.

      Wired: You shot the unicorn dream sequence as part of the original production. Why didn't you include it in either the work print or the initial release?

      Scott:As I said, there was too much discussion in the room. I wanted it. They didn't want it. I said, "Well, it's a fundamental part of the story." And they said, "Well, isn't it obvious that he's a replicant?" And I said, "No more obvious than that he's not a replicant at the end." So, it's a matter of choice, isn't it?

      Wired: When Deckard picks up the origami unicorn at the end of the movie, the look on his face says to me, "Oh, so Gaff was here, and he let Rachael live." It doesn't say, "Oh my God! Am I a replicant, too?"

      Scott:No? Why is he nodding when he looks at this silver unicorn? I'm not going to send up a balloon. Doing the job he does, reading the files he reads on other replicants, Deckard may have wondered at one point, "Am I human or am I a replicant?" That's in his innermost thoughts. I'm just giving you the fully fleshed-out possibility to justify that look at the end, where he kind of glints and looks angry. To me, it's an affirmation. He nods, he agrees. "Ah hah! Gaff was here. I've been told."

      Wired: Harrison Ford is on record saying Deckard is not a replicant.

      Scott:Yeah, but that was, like, 20 years ago. He's given up now. He said, "OK, mate. You win! Anything! Just put it to rest."
  • Kardde, on 12/13/2007, -3/+123"I have to be leaving but I won't let that come between us, okay?"
  • itsjoshy, on 12/13/2007, -4/+297"I put on my robe and wizard hat"
    • slimbilly, on 12/13/2007, -3/+2brilliant.
    • robfrench, on 12/13/2007, -2/+10Something about both the "wizard hat" and the "cake is a lie"... if I don't see it coming, I just can't help myself from digging the comment up.
    • ValarMorghulis, on 12/13/2007, -2/+1bloodninja?
    • mexicanman07, on 12/13/2007, -6/+4"You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now."
    • gootecks, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Two robe/wizard hat comments dugg in just as many days!
    • xpanasonicyouth, on 12/14/2007, -0/+0Best possible comment on this story. A+, will LOL again.
  • blitzer, on 12/13/2007, -4/+60What Bill Murray says and what his character might have said are two completely different things. Sofia probably said "go pretend like you are talking". He might have said his ass was sweaty.

    What he wanted to say was "I want to be on you"
    • wils0n, on 12/13/2007, -0/+14Actually, I think that Sofia confirms your claim on the DVD commentary.
    • ninetimes, on 12/13/2007, -1/+1That's what I was thinking too. It may be that they did multiple takes, and that Bill Murray said something different in each take. It may be that the director or editor didn't even know what he said in the take that they used.

      In that case, it might just be luck that he wasn't saying something nonsensical or obscene.
      • amadeusdemarzi, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2well, most likely it wasn't non-sensical or obscene because they both needed to stay in character and not get distracted...
    • hambend, on 12/13/2007, -2/+2Actually, Sofia originally had some standard, tacky, cookie-cutter lines for the scene.

      "Why are you crying?"
      "I'll miss you."
      "I know, I'm going to miss you, too."

      Ugh. That's from http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/lost-in-transla ... I've heard it suggested that the inaudible whisper was Bill Murray's idea, but I think that's just speculation based on the way he's improvised other lines in the film.
  • charliekwalker, on 12/13/2007, -2/+62Back off man, I'm a scientist?
  • kingmanic, on 12/13/2007, -3/+95"I wish we could have a sex scene. But the director thought this was better..."-B. Murray
    • ElectroBot, on 12/13/2007, -0/+20That's what you get for having a female director. All the anticipation without a climax.
    • geminitojanus, on 12/14/2007, -0/+3I think a sex scene with Scarlett Johansson might very well be the end of humanity though. That and/or a formula to the best selling movie of all time.
  • erichb1, on 12/13/2007, -29/+2http://www.diggmirror.com
  • CLShortFuse, on 12/13/2007, -13/+1I don't think that's what he says. Why? Maybe I've been watching too much of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFjaoYZ7jlA (not rick roll)
  • MikeFallopian, on 12/13/2007, -13/+5"I have herpes"
  • charliekwalker, on 12/13/2007, -5/+44"Roger Clemens is on the juice"
  • MysticSavage, on 12/13/2007, -5/+51"Rosebud's the sled"
  • goingtoalpha, on 12/13/2007, -9/+4"It IS a dick"?
  • Rawler, on 12/13/2007, -4/+7youtube link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MV7Sym8bIQ
  • trc0, on 12/13/2007, -11/+7youtube link:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MV7Sym8bIQ
  • robertml1, on 12/13/2007, -1/+107"I'm licensed to kill gophers"
    • Chirp08, on 12/13/2007, -0/+4"cinderella story, former greenskeeper, i wont let this come between us.."
  • kwansolo, on 12/13/2007, -4/+2now i can die in peace
  • technerdy, on 12/13/2007, -3/+21Direct link, WITHOUT the blogspam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MV7Sym8bIQ
    and the Chappelle rules of digital manipulation apply, "That piss was fake.."
  • libertao, on 12/13/2007, -1/+25Even with the 'digital enhancement', you still can't hear the first half of the quote.
    • TomJohn, on 12/13/2007, -1/+7BUT you can hear five gunshots in Dealey Plaza.
    • thetanbark, on 12/13/2007, -0/+20He honestly did a horrible job of a "digitally enhanced" version. It sounds like he used a noise-reduction plugin, but had NO CLUE how to use it properly.
    • jordan314, on 12/13/2007, -1/+3...or the second half
  • Peepsalot, on 12/13/2007, -6/+116"Snape kills Dumbledore"
  • bagboyrebel, on 12/13/2007, -21/+6"Snape kills Dumbledore."
  • heartcoldfusion, on 12/13/2007, -13/+83He says, "I was hilarious in the 70's and 80's, but for some reason I'm not going to be funny anymore because I'd rather make the same emotionless blank expression in every movie I'm in after the year 2000."
    • dn11, on 12/13/2007, -1/+9actually, i think that trend started in 98 with Rushmore. but I liked Lost in Translation - definitely better than Garfield the Movie...
    • estacado, on 12/14/2007, -0/+3He took the blank expression to the extreme in Broken Flowers.
    • s0nicfreak, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Well, it worked for Lost in Translation, since he came off as an actor who didn't give a ***** about anything anymore, which is what he was suppose to be...
  • erikhensarling, on 12/13/2007, -1/+6Dude's got nothing so far as I can tell. http://www.youtube.com/Vid22
  • Cam_86, on 12/13/2007, -3/+7Okay... now someone figure out what that guy says at the end of radiohead's Creep music video.
    • jaggerjack, on 12/13/2007, -0/+9You mean "Just", right?
    • ajaxfontura, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3erm, "just"?
    • 28dayslater, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3In the video for "Just", he whispers, "Our plantet has been invaded by an invisible alien force, once they enter our bodies we lay down. This sentence is the delivery mechanism. Please repeat it"
      • drtyfrnk, on 12/14/2007, -0/+2Seriously? That would be pretty damn cool. I just had to go watch it on youtube again. *****, I love that video.
      • cresswga, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Cool - I never knew that and amazingly knowing it just makes the video seem cooler
      • 28dayslater, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1I made it up, but it is a feasible explanation.
    • insertnamehere, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1E = MC2
  • TomJohn, on 12/13/2007, -7/+1"Good I meet you."
  • hadak, on 12/13/2007, -14/+8***** or gtfo
  • htan, on 12/13/2007, -7/+2direct link:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MV7Sym8bIQ
  • ettin, on 12/13/2007, -5/+2"Cincinnati Hotplate"
  • heathuff23, on 12/13/2007, -7/+3"hmmm.....I have to fart but I don't know which way to lean"
  • centran, on 12/13/2007, -5/+30"The cake is a lie"
  • OHiggins, on 12/13/2007, -7/+9This is what I thought he said, I liked it a whole lot better;
    "You must miss your husband. Tell him you miss him, that you love him."
    • illt, on 12/14/2007, -0/+2I Definately heard "tell him that you love him", or something similar, mixed in among the whisper,
      in fact when i watched it their translation doesn't make much sense
  • Infowarmachine, on 12/13/2007, -21/+13"ron paul 2008 ok?"

  • antiorblkflag9, on 12/13/2007, -5/+41It took someone that long to turn on the closed captions?
  • Farmer77, on 12/13/2007, -15/+8"Vote Ron Paul"
  • grouchyman, on 12/13/2007, -7/+2"Dude, I was da bomb in Caddyshack."
  • honemasterT, on 12/13/2007, -6/+1You can't go! All the plants are gonna *die*!

    Tito Puente's gonna be dead, and you're gonna say, "Oh, I've been listening to him for years, and I think he's fabulous."








  • TwwIX, on 12/13/2007, -4/+7Baby steps,approach girl...Baby steps,hug girl...Baby steps,grab ass cheeks!
  • jjustin01, on 12/13/2007, -8/+0hey, does anyone have a direct link to the youtube video? :D
    It's a joke guys. Come on!
  • oxilite, on 12/13/2007, -12/+3"Dont taze me bro!"
  • brjndr, on 12/13/2007, -2/+21"I'd be totally in for another Ghostbusters movie"
  • nblsavage, on 12/13/2007, -8/+1"Rosebud"
    • Van3ck, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Someone already said that above... but nice try.
  • Crashster, on 12/13/2007, -4/+24"Bruce Willis is actually dead the whole time."
  • indierockzombie, on 12/13/2007, -13/+10"Every living creature on this Earth dies alone."
    • adude, on 12/13/2007, -3/+5What? How can someone digg down a Donnie Darko reference. :(
    • atticus8, on 12/16/2007, -0/+2With no context it sounds like the most emo ***** imaginable.
  • scottique, on 12/13/2007, -5/+4"Any way the wind blows..."
  • madrid, on 12/13/2007, -3/+19"That's how I eat shrimps."
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