Crafting stop-motion animation comes down to the minute details, Anderson says.
More than 2,200 puppets and 250 sets were built in different scales forIsle of Dogs.
It was not really entertaining when it didnt have enough authenticity, Anderson says of the latter set piece.
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This is definitely a reimagining of Japan through my experience of Japanese cinema.
Anderson tends to center his films from 1998sRushmoreto 2014sThe Grand Budapest Hotel on endearing outsiders.
InIsle of Dogs, he translates his affinity for underdogs into, literally, underdogs.
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But much of the Japanese dialogue, especially Ataris, is left untranslated.
I dont like to watch Japanese movies that are dubbed into English.
I like the performances of actors in Japanese.
Its interesting to me, and its a very beautiful, complex language, Anderson says.
But he also admits that he ends up falling to his preferred way of telling the story.
Isle of Dogsis out Friday.
