Kobayashi's accent
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Horror-yo — 9 years ago(April 20, 2016 08:42 AM)
That would be some epic instance of failure right there. The Jap accent is nothing like this !
I think it's just the people in charge who wanted him to be weird and feel very unique so ppl would remember this character and he has indeed been quite influential. One of the ppl I know on Facebook is called 'Kobayashi' something. They just wanted him to stand out as much as possible, even if it meant not being in control totally of what they were doing.
Harry !!.your hands are freezing !! -
Kawada_Kira — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 08:30 PM)
YES! a Limey lawyer with a Jap name in LA
I had just assumed that it was an alias he used for himself. Someone in his line of work would usually prefer an alias to use in place of his real name, and one alias is as good as another. You don't need to be ethnically Japanese to use a Japanese name, and there are any number of reasons one might use a particular name for oneself. Could be a cultural reference, he could have named himself after someone he knew (someone he respected or even someone he killed), or it could be something completely random just to throw people off.
Obviously we know, from the ending, that the name Kobayashi was something Kint just came up with in the office, but before that I never thought the character or his name was unbelievable. -
mtouchprod — 9 years ago(April 29, 2016 03:44 AM)
Maybe they were trying to make him seem sort of indistinguishable and nationless, like a guy who's able to function in any culture and has contacts in every corner of the world. Like in other words his accent is a jumble because he's been everywhere but from nowhere.
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Horror-yo — 9 years ago(April 29, 2016 05:18 AM)
SPOILERS
Yes, exactly. As discussed earlier, he is anyways basically all fully invented, his name itself coming from sth as trivial as where it came from as we learn at the end. He's basically a hint to the viewers, with his complete incoherence and how surrealistic a character he is overall, that Spacey is just having fun with Palminteri in his office and inventing almost as it goes.
And as you say, he 'belongs' nowhere, as to emphasize how powerful (well-connected, unpredictable) he is as a character. He's basically Spacey's character's chaos, his love for hubris and grande things and over-exaggeration, all with a hint of de facto surrealism.
Harry !!.your hands are freezing !! -
mtouchprod — 9 years ago(May 31, 2016 05:48 AM)
Well, he is a real guy, because he's the one who picks up Verbal in the car at the end. And they share what I felt was a relieved look, so I don't think he's just Verbals driver whose face Verbal had in mind while he made up the story.
My impression was that he's a real person, whose name is obviously not really Kobayashi, but otherwise I had assumed that he was as portrayed in the story being told - he's the slick, legal face of Verbals operation. -
filompra — 9 years ago(June 01, 2016 07:07 PM)
He sounds like. whatever. Turkish, Pakistani.it doesn't matter.
Although I did spot some Irish undertones myself.
Maybe he grew up in Turkey, India or whatever and one of his parents was Irish.
That would make sense.
On the other hand, it doesn't make sense that Keyzer speaks English so perfectly, considering his Turkish/German origins.
Come on that doesn't add up.