How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Lost in Translation.
Quote #7
CHARLOTTE: You having a nice time?
BOB: Can you keep a secret? I'm trying to organize a prison break. I'm looking for, like, an accomplice. We'd have to first get out of this bar, then the hotel, then the city, and then the country. Are you in, or are you out?
CHARLOTTE: I'm in.
Part of why Bob and Charlotte are able to connect almost immediately is this shared sense that they don’t belong, and that they want to escape from this moment in their lives. Sure, Bob's making a joke of it here, but given how many times we see them literally running away from people and events, there's a lot of truth to this jailbreak plot.
Quote #8
BOB: Which one's burgundy?
Bob's communication with his wife has been ground down to talking about carpet samples and their kids. There's no "I miss you" or "I can't wait to get home." There's only burgundy.
Quote #9
BOB: Well, you either go to a doctor, or you leave it here… See, they love black toe over in this country… Gotta be. You know, this country? Somebody's gotta prefer black toe. Ah, "brack" toe. We should probably hang around until someone orders it?
We don't know about you, but we're starting to think Bob has just a wee bit of hostility toward the cultural and communicative barriers he keeps running into in Japan. We know from the mobile billboard he and Charlotte pass that he's been Suntory's spokesman for a while. That means this isn't his first trip to the Far East. The fact that, in this brief exchange, he squeezes in yet another joke about Japanese accents and insinuates that, in their culture, people find blackened human toes a delicacy seems to suggest there's some hostility—or at least disdain—there.