We’re not quite sure what to say about this.
The first trailer for Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs has landed, and while incredibly cute… we don’t really know what to make of it.
Since the success of Fantastic Mr Fox went global, we were looking forward to his next adaptation, and while a tad strange, it still looks like a great movie.
And with the likes of Bryan Cranston, Yoko Ono, Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray doing voice overs, we’re sure to be entertained.
The film centres around an apocalyptic future, where dogs are sent away to Trash Island because there’s too many of them on Earth.
However, some people are noticing that while the movie is based in Japan, all of the dogs speak English… and the humans use their native Japanese:
Before watching the ISLE OF DOGS trailer: please don’t be racist
After: if all the dogs are from Japan WHY DON’T THEY UNDERSTAND JAPANESE???— Hayley Centimetres (@hayley_sass) September 21, 2017
Isle of Dogs. That trailer was…well…weird. So the humans are voiced by Japanese actors and the dogs (the leads) are Westerners. What?
— ferdosa (@atomicwick) September 21, 2017
Is it weird that I’m cool with “western stop motion with Japanese cultural aesthetics” with Kubo, but Isle of Dogs rubs me the wrong way?
— KinemaClint (@Cinemacreep) September 21, 2017
mixed feeling about isle of dogs. i was praying that it was an adaption of a japanese novel or smth but it looks like it’s pure wes anderson
— nopal (@nopalrabbit) September 21, 2017
I mean Isle Of Dogs too but how did he manage to whitewash Japanese dogs…and make a racist joke abt kid not speaking English as well lmao
— ?horny 4 october ? (@sadichhakarki) September 21, 2017
excited 4 isle of dogs but also hmmm wes did u have 2 have a throwaway abt novody understanding japanese tho u set ur story in japan w/ a –
— bad boy dionysus (@coolmilk98) September 22, 2017
Forgot the Japanese setting of Isle of Dogs and now I’m very very concerned
— Ian Carlos Campbell (@soupsthename) September 21, 2017
