Even the subtitles, used when
characters speak Spanish, get into the act, certain key words being made larger or the whole lines jumping around the screen as the people talk.
Not exact matches
The series is also popular in
Spanish -
speaking countries, and Emma, the name of one of its
characters, was very popular on our list.
The film plays as an autobiography supposing Thompson's
character Paul Kemp (Depp) would have been employed in 1960 at the San Juan Puerto Rico STAR, a newspaper run by English
speaking Americans trying to report in
Spanish speaking land.
I appreciate the film working with that theme as well as keeping most of the interactions between
Spanish -
speaking characters in
Spanish.
There are exceptions, of course (like Bernal and Luna) and the Latino market at least has the benefit of a really large and natively
Spanish speaking film community that it can fall back into but, seriously, name a latino
character actor other than Luis Guzman.