So, she was cast in an adaptation of a book the story of which is set in Japan. Alicia Vikander On Learning Japanese for Earthquake Bird | Netflix. https://blog.indie-visual.net/alicia-vikander-on-learning-japanese Swedish-born Oscar winner Alicia Vikander performs in both English and Japanese in her new movie, thriller "Earthquake Bird", as she immerses herself in 1980s Tokyo. Facebook. It is important to recognize how the actor wants to say or how the dialogue should feel in their native tongue (or in this case adopted tongue) and marry this with the language which they would be speaking. Doing so retains an authenticity both in the feelings behind the words and the very words themselves. When she was 5 months old, her parents separated, who actually are from small Swedish villages. For the most part, Alicia was raised by her single mother. Alicia Vikander confessed the cast and crew of Netflix's new film Earthquake Bird were too nice to correct her Japanese language blunders. Netflix Film Club 280,895 views. Already my interest is piqued. November 16, 2019. Share. In this video she reveals a good portion of the movie involves Japanese dialogue and it is fascinating to hear how the production adapted to the language differences for the performer. I think this is a great way for Japanese productions or foreign productions hoping to shoot in Japan to approach foreign-language dialogue.
3:16. In Wash Westmorland’s Earthquake Bird Alicia Vikander plays Lucy Fly, an expat living in Tokyo who becomes entangled in a murder investigation. ?” and he’d then tell me.’Explaining her 10-week journey on getting the emphasis right, she said: ‘[My co-stars] were like (makes disapproving noise) and I would be like, “That sounds good” and they would answer, “NO!”.Wash, who also directed Colette, said: ‘I was getting the bus into Soho every day. ReddIt. By YouTube. Alicia Vikander plays a murder suspect caught in a love triangle in "Earthquake Bird," a thriller set in 1989 Tokyo in which the Oscar winner performs in English as well as Japanese. 12 Year Old Boy Humiliates Simon Cowell - Duration: 5:37. But, she used to visit her dad’s house after every 2 weeks. Alicia Vikander arriving at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles in November 2015 Alicia Vikander Facts. Twitter.
I was like this is boring, so I put on my headphones, listened to Ryuichi Sakamoto, cracked open my laptop and would write for an hour every morning and over four to five months it accumulated.’From using an all-female rock band, Falsettos, to sing Yoko Ono’s songs in the film to listening to Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, there wasn’t a single moment in the Netflix creation that wasn’t carefully considered.Alicia embraces her character Lucy’s unfamiliar journey with love, which has her thrown into an exhilarating and fiery relationship with a secretive Japanese photographer while juggling a translating job in 1980s Tokyo.With every scene that passed, it became very clear the extreme Japanese influences director Wash Westmoreland had.And with most Asian languages, the correct sentences rely on emphasis and octaves that don’t exist in English.Without the help of technology that we have today, it’s no surprise Lucy is forced to be fluent in Japanese after living in the metropole for years with no contact with her family.‘Japanese is very different from both Swedish and English where I knew exactly what weird sounds I would need to make.‘By the end, the emphasis became natural.’So much of it oozed Japanese exactitude that you wouldn’t think that the script was written on the 38 bus from Hackney to Soho.A change in pitch can turn a very simple phrase into a completely unrelated word, which is what Alicia quickly realised. ‘It really helped too because finding emphasis of wanting to get your thoughts to come across the way you are thinking is faced differently.‘They’re always so polite, but there were definitely some scenes I was like running it by [Naoki] like “Is this okay? Alicia Vikander On Learning Japanese for Earthquake Bird | Netflix - Duration: 3:16. The Swedish actress discusses learning Japanese for her latest role.