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Meet Jenna Ortega’s Artificial Friend In Taika Waititi’s ‘Klara and the Sun’ Trailer

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'Klara And The Sun' Trailer: Meet Jenna Ortega's Artificial Friend

Jenna Ortega will portray the titular Artificial Friend in Taika Waititi's 'Klara and the Sun' movie, based on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel.
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Many people on Twitter who have read Kazuo Ishiguro's book are saying that the book is more melancholic and explores creativity, creation, and religion through a robot. Looking at the trailer, there are also comments stating that the film's inclusion of humor does not fit the tone of the book. The film will be in theaters on October 23.
 
Been leery of Watiti since he turned the two most epically dramatic storylines in the Thor comics into a stupid slapstick farce.
 
Forbin said:
Been leery of Watiti since he turned the two most epically dramatic storylines in the Thor comics into a stupid slapstick farce.
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Yeah, that soured me on him too.

You have to like his humor style and if you do yu'll get a fun movie or show, Thor was not the place for his humor though and just shows where Marvel made missteps during that time.

However the trailer got me interested, even if this was the extent of the humor for the whole movie the story itself interests me. Will likely wait until it streams though.
 
Funnily Ragnarök is in my top 10 Marvel list and... the other one my bottom list (admitedly he himself didn't much care for doing that). Normally I really dig his stuff so I'm optimistic...
 
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I am generally not a fan of the director and his humor. Yet this is an an incredible cast and the trailer looks really interesting.
 
Tho it looks like this is another "are robots people too?" story. Not exactly a new concept. I'm pretty tired of it, in fact.
 
Forbin said:
Been leery of Watiti since he turned the two most epically dramatic storylines in the Thor comics into a stupid slapstick farce.
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There was a good movie in Love and Thunder somewhere discarded in the outtakes. There's a great deleted scene with Thor and Zeus in which during the confrontation Zeus transports them to a pastoral setting where they just talk. He apologizes to Thor for the spectacle because that's what the audience expects. Zeus says he was sorry to hear about Odin and that they used to have some good times back in the day. He agrees with Thor about Gorr and gives him the thunderbolt. With words to the effect of, "I can't give this to my own son because he is an idiot" and "when we get back we have to make it look good for the audience", the story moves on from there.

Now if they had gone that route and avoided the Korg death fake out (or stuck with it!) it would have been a lot better.
 
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Looks pretty good and it has a terrific cast. I love Waititi's style and directing, yes, including Ragnarok and Love and Thunder, although admittedly the latter has a lot of issues. Klara and the Sun looks like a more lighthearted version of A.I. Artificial Intelligence (which I also love) but still foretells a dark undercurrent.
 
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Source: Jenna Ortega's interview on Stephen Colbert's The Late Show in March 2025 (during the film's promotional period).

English version of the text: “I remember just showing up and we didn’t know how to make somebody who had never experienced the world before see it in a new lens. And a lot of the lines, if you read them on the page, it makes it sound as though Klara is really dumb. She doesn’t know what a lemon is, she walks into walls… So we were trying to find a natural approach to make it work. And I just had a baby niece. She was just born. Her name is Maya. And she’s beautiful. And I was spending time with her visiting home before I went to do this job. And I was looking at her and she has this like awful blank stare that all babies have where they’re just so clueless about everything… that I was watching her and I thought, ‘Oh, that’s what I’m gonna do.’
So if you watch that movie and you watch my performance, it is based off of my toddler nephews and my newborn baby niece.”
 
I saw the trailer in front of Supergirl.

So, is the allusion to Christina's World intentional, by which I mean, is it part of the original material? I have to say, I rolled my eyes hard at that obvious reference. The trailer did not make me want to see the film.
 
CorporalCaptain said:
I saw the trailer in front of Supergirl.

So, is the allusion to Christina's World intentional, by which I mean, is it part of the original material? I have to say, I rolled my eyes hard at that obvious reference. The trailer did not make me want to see the film.
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I haven't read the book, but I doubt it. Those who have read it say it's a more serious, melancholic book. Those who have read it say it's more like Blade Runner; it explores the concepts of God, creation, and religion from the perspective of a robot.
 
Turtletrekker said:
There was a good movie in Love and Thunder somewhere discarded in the outtakes. There's a great deleted scene with Thor and Zeus in which during the confrontation Zeus transports them to a pastoral setting where they just talk. He apologizes to Thor for the spectacle because that's what the audience expects. Zeus says he was sorry to hear about Odin and that they used to have some good times back in the day. He agrees with Thor about Gorr and gives him the thunderbolt. With words to the effect of, "I can't give this to my own son because he is an idiot" and "when we get back we have to make it look good for the audience", the story moves on from there.

Now if they had gone that route and avoided the Korg death fake out (or stuck with it!) it would have been a lot better.
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Damn, I wish they had left that scene in. I liked what we got in the final movie, but the extra layer this adds to the whole thing would have made it even better.
As for the topic of this thread, it looks good but I think it'll be a streamer for me. I've never even heard of the book, so I'll probably be coming into it totally fresh.
 
If you've read Remains of the Day and watched the film, then you know that a lot of the good stuff was left out despite the film being really good. I expect the same with this one. Read the book. It's short. You'll probably get more out of the film when it airs. This is one of those cases of read the book first.
 
I did not like Kazuo Ishiguro's novel as I thought it was just weird. Its style just left me feeling emotionally distant from whatever was happening the entire time and I never felt engaged by it. I could tell it was trying, but ironically enough it felt devoid of life. Maybe it will translate to film better than what was written on the page, but I kind of doubt it.

In the novel, there are things that occur with no discernible logic, such as the way the mother treats their next-door neighbor in an antagonistic manner almost as if out of spite, because towards the end, there's a line the mother utters, asking their next-door neighbour if he felt he had won. Never mind the fact that the neighbour is a kid. The novel never makes it clear why the mother harbours that attitude towards him, but there are other examples peppered throughout the book, and it's something that had rubbed me the wrong way.
 
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bdub76 said:
If you've read Remains of the Day and watched the film, then you know that a lot of the good stuff was left out despite the film being really good. I expect the same with this one. Read the book. It's short. You'll probably get more out of the film when it airs. This is one of those cases of read the book first.
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I remember being blown away reading The Remains of the Day after seeing the movie, which had been advertised as more of a romance. The problem adapting works by "literary" writers is that the power of the work often has little to do with the kinds of elements that work on screen. I've put this book on my "to read" list now because of the movie coming out this year, but if someone is looking for a science fiction epic or originality of a robot exploring humanity plot then this story isn't it.

*Also, The Buried Giant, Ishuguro's 2015 novel, is being adapted as an animated movie by Del Toro for Netflix. It seems like the project still has years to go as it will be stop motion animation, but I have no doubt it will be nominated for awards season when it is released.
 
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*Also, The Buried Giant, Ishuguro's 2015 novel, is being adapted as an animated movie by Del Toro for Netflix. It seems like the project still has years to go as it will be stop motion animation, but I have no doubt it will be nominated for awards season when it is released.
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That's the only Ishuguro novel I've read so far but I kind of struggled with it. I greatly appreciated the themes he explored but there was something about the prose that didn't click for me. Either way, I'm definitely looking forward to its adaptation and I think it's well suited for stop-motion animation, especially from del Toro, although I worry he may add unnecessary action as there isn't much in the novel.

I try to read novels before the films (which is a switch from my old policy of deliberately reading the novel well after the film) but I don't know if I'll have the time to read Klara and the Sun when I have so many books in my docket, as well as keeping in mind my experience with reading The Buried Giant. However, I've already read two novels for the first time ahead of their impending adaptions this year (The Odyssey and Dune: Messiah) so perhaps I should make it a hat trick?
 
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