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So, what did Bill Murray whisper into Scarlett Johanson's ear during the final scene from Lost In Translation?

Lost In Translation is one of my favourite movies of all time, and certainly my no. 1 of the last decade.

Some dude has done some work to clean out the background noise to detect the previously unknown snippet which the Bill Murray character whispered in Scarlett Johansson's ear during the final scene of the flic. Do not click if it's going to spoil the ending for you. Here it is on Youtube.  Look and listen.

A mystery solved.

[ pointer from Kottke ]

You may also like to know that the result from the audio analysis is NOT the line in Sofia Coppola's shooting draft script for the movie.

And here's a verbatim transcript of the movie dialogue.  Of course the inaudible line is not included.

lifeasdaddy - Overheard at Starbucks.

Jina Moore of the Chrisitan Science Monitor has written an interesting article about conversations, many of a personal nature, which people feel they can conduct in Starbucks coffee houses without care that they will be overheard by others.  These are some of the observations made by Temple University's Professor Bryant Simons who is researching and writing a book about Starbucks.

There's also some interesting sociological insights in this New Yorker snippet about Prof. Simon's research for the book.

Here's a YouTube clip of Prof. Simon lecturing about his Starbucks stuff, especially the brand and how people consume there.  It's a form of self-gifting.  It's a desire for belonging. "Starbucks is a multi-media corporation which stages performances, and puts the consumer at the center of those performances."