Isle of Dogs

A bag of garbage starts a gang war. A sack of dumped trash lands on Trash Island and two rival dog packs face off over it, Western-standoff style, before anyone even checks what's inside — a rancid apple core, worm-eaten banana peels, a moldy rice cake, a dried-up pickle, a tin of sardine bones, broken eggshells, and a maggot-ridden gizzard. Chief declares it "worth it" and the fight is on. It's a vivid, blackly funny bit, but there's no actual dish to reconstruct from a bag of rotten scraps.

The sushi scene took a month to animate. Animators Andy Biddle and Tony Farquhar-Smith spent a 32-day shoot on the roughly 45-second sequence of the sushi chef's hands at work, down to a fish that appears to blink as its head is removed — Wes Anderson wanted it "respectful to sushi culture," not just a sight gag.

Jupiter and Oracle keep a still going. The two feral dogs living wild pour the pack a round of what they call "turpentine brandy" from a jug — the film's running joke that dogs, like the humans of Megasaki, have their own home-brewed vices.

The cave of empty sake bottles is scenery, not a scene. Atari and the pack shelter for a night in a hollow made from stacked, empty sake bottles — evidence of drinking, never a drink being poured.