Craig explained the movie that my friends Jeff and Josh are making. He said it is the best idea for a movie he's heard in a long time. It goes like this:
A man lives in the Big City and can't stand the hustle and bustle, so he decides to kill himself. His plan is to drive up to the deep woods of, say, northern Wisconsin and be eaten by a wolf. He will smear blood all over his body and lie on the ice and await the clenching teeth of death.
It doesn't work, however, so the man goes back to live in the Big City again.
Badda-bing.
In Sophia Coppola's masterpiece of serenity, we are confronted with a similar story:
A man goes to Tokyo to film a whisky ad. While there he encounters a young bride and they turn what could have been an unfortunate dalliance into meaningful sentiments about the potential depth that can exist between human beings.
If my friends' movie turns out as well as Lost in Translation, it will certainly deserve a nomination for movie of the year.