Lost in Translation Page #5

He makes small talk about the pickled seaweed breakfast and

jet lag, they commiserate about having not slept in days.

BOB:

What about you? Why are you here?

CHARLOTTE:

My husband's here for work-he's a

photographer- and I just came

along...I'm not really doing anything

right now, and we have some friends

who live here.

BOB:

How long have you been married?

CHARLOTTE:

Two years.

BOB:

Try twenty-five.

CHARLOTTE:

You're probably just having a mid-

life crisis. Did you buy a Porche?

BOB:

I'm thinking about it.

CHARLOTTE:

25 years... that's a long time...

Are you still in love with your wife?

BOB:

Yes... I don't know, I don't know

her anymore. I don't know if you can

be in love with one person the whole

time. I was... actually I was in

love with her sister first, when I

was twenty-one. And one day her sister

said to me she wanted to move to

Paris, so I said okay, and she said

no, she wanted to move to Paris with

Francois, and she's still married

to him. And I moved in with Lydia...

but I always really liked Lydia.

CHARLOTTE:

(amused with too much

info)

Oh.

BOB:

What do you do?

CHARLOTTE:

I'm not sure, yet... I graduated

last spring.

BOB:

What did you study?

CHARLOTTE:

Philosophy.

BOB:

Oh, what do you do with that?

CHARLOTTE:

I don't know, but I can think about

it, a lot.

BOB:

It takes a while to figure it out.

I'm sure you will, though.

CHARLOTTE:

Thanks. I'm sure your mid-life crisis

will work out,too.

BOB:

Thanks.

They clink glasses.

CHARLOTTE:

I wish I could sleep BOB Me, too.

CUT TO:

INT. HOTEL LOBBY - DAY

The hotel is filled with business people. A dressed up FAMILY

is going to lunch. We follow a jet-lagged Charlotte and John,

as they walk down the lobby hall.

An energetic blonde actress, KELLY, pops up to them. (She's

carrying a copy of Memoirs of a Geisha.)

John, who was holding Charlotte's hand, drops it.

KELLY:

John! What are you doing here?

JOHN:

I'm just here shooting this band,

what about you?

KELLY:

Promoting that action movie I did...

She does a karate chop and laughs.

KELLY:

...doing like twenty million

interviews a day... It's soo good to

see you. How long are you here for?

JOHN:

We're here for the week. I'm shooting

in Osaka for a few days.

KELLY:

It's amazing there!

JOHN:

Have you met Charlotte? My wife.

KELLY:

No! Hi! So great to meet you!

CHARLOTTE:

Hi, nice to meet you.

KELLY:

You know, John, you're my favorite

photographer, I only want to be shot

by you.

Charlotte looks at John.

JOHN:

Uh..thanks.

KELLY:

(as she fans out her

top)

Sorry if I have the worst B.O., I've

been sweating in this little room

with T.V. lights for hours...

Kelly, giggling and acting all too comfortable with herself,

is eating up all the oxygen around them.

JOHN:

Oh no...

KELLY:

(with a big smile)

...Well, I have the worst headache,

I have to go find some aspirin. But,

call me, let's have a drink, I'm

under Evelyn Waugh.

Kelly giggles. Charlotte smirks.

JOHN:

Ok, see you later.

And Kelly and her make-up artist and publicist are off. John

and Charlotte continue.

CHARLOTTE:

Evelyn Waugh?

JOHN:

What?

CHARLOTTE:

Evelyn Waugh was a man.

John shrugs.

JOHN:

Oh, c'mon, she's nice. Not everyone

went to Yale.

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