Lost In Translation

[Jixby Phillips]

He says "Good teenagers, take off your clothes"

This is from the imdb.com message boards:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/board/nest/5832340

OK, do you REALLY want to know?

Here are the facts.

First of all, you can find rumors on the web of some projectionist who claims to have cranked up the volume and deciphered the speech, and he is positive that Bob says "I'm so glad to have met you. I'll miss you. Don't cry, OK?". Nice try, but it's bullsh!t.

The dialogue was scripted, and what Bill Murray says was indeed written. However, in the looping sessions (where anything between 50 and 100% of the dialogue is re-recorded in post production), they replaced his lines with incoherent mumbling that is clearly not in sync with the picture. To further investigate this, I isolated a snippet of the sound track and pulled it into WaveLab where I used a restoration plugin and noise reduction to strip away as much of the background noise as possible. And he says absolutely nothing, it's not even words. It's "mshdu s fphllpbt ff whfffh w uffwlgg, OK?". They were clever enough to make it waterproof, so that not even audio doctors would be able to dissect the sound and extract the dialogue.

And since his mouth is half hidden behind Charlotte's face, it's impossible to read his lips. You can however tell that he's not saying what you're hearing on the soundtrack.

In interviews, Sofia has categorically refused to reveal what Bob says.

In conclusion: We will never know. Happy?