BlazeAlpha wrote:kamome wrote:The use of Japanese language was too gratuitous and disappointing. Sitting in a Tokyo movie theater surrounded by Japanese people listening to Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu struggling through their Japanese lines was an embarrassing moment for me.
I can understand Uma struggling through Japanese as her character is not suppose to be great in the language anyway, however I heard from various people that Lucy did a wonderful job speaking Japanese. I think I even read where Sonny Chiba said she did a fine job.
Oh, you heard from some people that Lucy did a wonderful, fine job? Let me tell you, as someone who speaks Japanese fluently, that she did not do a wonderful, fine job. It was painful to my ears and the ears of all the Japanese sitting in the audience with me. Of course, Sonny Chiba would say something positive. They were colleagues working on the same film, with an obligation to promote it. He's not going to publically say, "Her Japanese sucked."
And why would two people from America be speaking Japanese to each other anyway?
The same reason to Japanese people from Japan would be speaking English? Where in Kill Bill did you forget that this is a film? [/quote]
Uh, this makes no sense at all. Japanese people rarely speak English to each other, even if they are fluent in English. It wouldn't make sense for them to do so because it wouldn't feel natural. The same would apply to two Americans who were fluent in other languages; it just wouldn't feel natural.
I'll leave the wire action argument to Caustic Saint, who made a very convincing case for why the wire action made sense for Crouching Tiger and Matrix, but didn't make sense for Kill Bill.