Still from the film Come Wander with Me by Phillip Van.

We live in an age where everyone fancies themselves a filmmaker and they've got a YouTube video to prove it.  On YouTube, you can find plenty of short films competing for your attention.  I've talked to people who've just emerged from a YouTube stupor, their eyes glassy and searching for a horizon.  You can get lost for hours there, wading through junk and occasionally striking gold.  Personally, I appreciate those moments in this modern life when someone or some event comes along to mediate that vast landscape of content, saying "Hey, my media-weary traveler, rest here.  I'll introduce you to really good work. I've spent an entire year looking around so you don't have to."  At times like these, l'll gladly sit my fanny down and eagerly await my fortune. 

We have become a nation of key taps and cell phone clicks.  You become aware of the clicks in your daily work flow when you get a new keyboard - all of sudden the tapping at your desk is louder and more resonant.  Then there's the common ring tone, most noticable when cell phones sing their way into a meeting, or movie, or, as in the other night, the Lyle Lovett concert at Humphreys (I was bitter and commenced with the glaring).  But today I present you with a strange and ingenious use of cell phone tapping, clicks, and...Mozart.  I also leave you with this question:  Isn't the human impulse to engage in random and odd forms of expression refreshing?  Or maybe it's this question:  Did that impulse increase with the birth of YouTube and its platform?  Enjoy!

Just Like Honey plays in the background.

Bill Murray yells to Scarlett Johansson. She stops...turns... the crowds part, sort of. He walks up to her. They hug. She nuzzles. He plays with her cute indie haircut. He begins to whisper... What? What did he say? Did you hear it? What did he say?

No one knows. Even Sophia Coppola has said in interviews that the scene was unscripted. Only Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson know.

Until now!

The industrious, digitally equipped, and, apparently bored, vid22dotcom (of soon to be YouTube fame) has applied digital processing software to the final scene to figure out what Murray whispers to Johansson. Is it plausible? Sure! Can we prove it? No!

Some people may choose to preserve the mystery since the ending is perfect without knowing what was said between them. Me? I'm a philistine. I had to know. If you're like me... take a gander at the handiwork of vid22dotcom and see what you think...