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Still … thoseJapanese-people puppets.
Thats where the exhaustion kicked in.
Its not a crime, but its certainly something to unpack.
You could swap it out for, say, Finland, and not much would change.
Is the metaphor just not made for you?
Is thefilmnot made for you?
(Sorry, extended family.)
Their observations were fascinating and occasionally conflicting, as were their critical opinions of the film.
The film just opened in select cities this week, so the pool was already small.
Just something to take into account.)
All three people I spoke to said this was not a problem for Andersons film.
For what its worth, the spoken Japanese made complete sense, Anthony told me.
It was distracting, because I wanted to hear what they were saying.
Lisa didnt quite have this problem, but found herself ignoring much of the Japanese dialogue anyway.
I didnt exactly find it hard to hear, she says.
But I didnt care much about it; I knew it didnt have much meaning.
They didnt venture to speak Japanese precisely, she says of Atari and Major-Domo.
But they had a Japanese cultural effect.
So it was kind of caricatured.
Beam also observed a kind of Japanese affect that he suspected was intentional in its stiltedness.
Its slightly robotic which is kind of cute and comical at the same time.
A lot of it was an awkward, kind of choppy phrasing, Anthony said.
It kind of made me think that someone had thrown these English phrases into Google Translate.
The [characters] werent the exact characters you would use in that context.
People today wouldnt use the literal translation of drone, he says.
Most people would just saydu-ron.It just makes more sense.
When something was handwritten in the film, it looked perfect.
It was just the graphics that were off.
Even when some of the language quirks stumbled, the essence of the film felt particularly Japanese to him.
And we love dogs.
Anthony, meanwhile, has more misgivings.
He described inexplicable laughter from the crowd every time a Japanese character reacted to something in Japanese.
It made me think,What are they laughing at?
The fact that they speak a foreign language?
But theres also a general eagerness to see it.
People are like, I know hes going to respect Japanese culture, Anthony says.
Japanese people love Wes Anderson.
