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Cowboy Bebop at his computer remake, now with live action Husky

Triggerhappy said:
I've never understood this seeing as it's not like Noir had enough of a western following to make the name recognition worth it.
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I didn't really get it, either. Maybe it was a Fantastic Four type situation where they had to make an adaptation within X years or they lose the rights, so they just slapped the name on whatever they had lying around?
 
I have to question what the point is. Cowboy Bebop is a show that was made to take advantage of the animation medium. It uses a variety of different techniques to suit each episode's theme. For the most part the soundtrack and animation still hold up. What is being added to the world, culturally speaking, by making this new show, which seemingly covers the same ground plot-wise? What value would I or anyone else gain in watching it?
 
no. said:
I have to question what the point is. Cowboy Bebop is a show that was made to take advantage of the animation medium. It uses a variety of different techniques to suit each episode's theme. For the most part the soundtrack and animation still hold up. What is being added to the world, culturally speaking, by making this new show, which seemingly covers the same ground plot-wise? What value would I or anyone else gain in watching it?
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To make money.

Honestly this could work, with a heavy emphasis on could. The TV series could be a continuation of the original animation where we just have the Bebop crew doing a bunch of random shit with a certain theme each episode, which was kinda the point of the show. We already know what happens in the anime, so the TV show could just be more of "the dumb adventures of the Bebop crew as they run around eternally broke" while maybe giving us some more worldbuilding. But I have a feeeling it's just going to be "the anime but in live action form", which is going to go as well as GITS did.

But fuck man Trump git elected as president somehow and China is implementing a moral credit system so maybe in this comic book pulp fiction universe all the stars manage to align and we somehow get a good live action Cowboy Bebop adaptation. I'm still waiting for the Nazi Zombies.
 
I remember a cowboy bebop manga with an antagonist who was Ed's age but was also head of a criminal syndicate. It felt kinda ridduculous, so I didn't keep reading.
 
There were also two Cowboy Bebop video games, one for the original PlayStation and one for PS2. I haven't played either, but the latter was adapted into a feature-length "film" under the title Cowboy Bebop: The Song Remains The Same by the fan group Studio Sokodei. I think it was originally shown at cons but unlike most of their works they also uploaded it to YouTube.
 
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I have to question what the point is. Cowboy Bebop is a show that was made to take advantage of the animation medium. It uses a variety of different techniques to suit each episode's theme. For the most part the soundtrack and animation still hold up. What is being added to the world, culturally speaking, by making this new show, which seemingly covers the same ground plot-wise? What value would I or anyone else gain in watching it?
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Well, I mean it will help keep Netflix up as a bulwark against Disney becoming an unstoppable juggernaut, and it's also good to see John Cho in a leading role, I guess?
 
serra2 said:
So apparently, they cast a husky to fill the role of Ein.

Article:
But John wont be alone on screen, as Netflix has just announced a film and TV newcomer will appear alongside him.

Bella, the 2 year old Siberian husky, will round off the predominately human–and entirely motley–crew of bountyhunters as the "datadog" Ein.

Sources say that Netflix has decided to make an "Artistic choice" in casting Bella, citing her "intense and intelligent screen presence, befitting a gentically engineered 'datadog'" as their rationale.
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My joke that I made when the cast was originally announced was that with this spread, they'd probably cast Ein as a fucking cat.

I wasn't that god damn far off the mark. You fucks seriously couldn't even be bothered to find a REAL CORGI!?

I'm not gonna lie, nothing about this idea makes any sense to me. This has no reason to exist. Cowboy bebop as it exists is as close to perfect as you can possibly get. There is absolutely nothing that you can communicate or express via live action that you can't do better with hand drawn animation. The setting is never going to feel as rich. The music is never going to be as good. This exists purely for an audience of nebulous latecomer pseudo-nerd zoomers who have heard of cowboy bebop but can't be bothered to actually watch it.

The only worse example I can think of is that live action Akira movie that is apparently somehow STILL being made. Akira as a movie is already honestly not that great. The story is bad, and poorly told, and not a very good adaptation. The only thing it has going for it is magnificent and iconic animation, and the proposal Hollywood has is to remove that part of it. A decision I can only attribute to some kind of capitalist lizard person who has heard of art but doesn't know what it actually is.
 
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RoyalNoises said:
My joke that I made when the cast was originally announced was that with this spread, they'd probably cast Ein as a fucking cat.

I wasn't that god damn far off the mark. You fucks seriously couldn't even be bothered to find a REAL CORGI!?

I'm not gonna lie, nothing about this idea makes any sense to me. This has no reason to exist. Cowboy bebop as it exists is as close to perfect as you can possibly get. There is absolutely nothing that you can communicate or express via live action that you can't do better with hand drawn animation. The setting is never going to feel as rich. The music is never going to be as good. This exists purely for an audience of nebulous latecomer pseudo-nerd zoomers who have heard of cowboy bebop but can't be bothered to actually watch it.

The only worse example I can think of is that live action Akira movie that is apparently somehow STILL being made. Akira as a movie is already honestly not that great. The story is bad, and poorly told, and not a very good adaptation. The only thing it has going for it is magnificent and iconic animation, and the proposal Hollywood has is to remove that part of it. A decision I can only attribute to some kind of capitalist lizard person who has heard of art but doesn't know what it actually is.
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Basically Disney got paid for making live action remakes, for a given level of live action, so why not rise that wave?
 
kjyl said:
Basically Disney got paid for making live action remakes, for a given level of live action, so why not rise that wave?
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Did they? Are you going to erode my already tenuous faith in humanity by telling me that those pig disgusting insults to classic animation actually made money?
 
Important to note that to most people in the industry animation isn't real film making and that any cartoon is going to be seen as inferior to even a sub-par live-action version. These things would get made even if it was barely profitable because they'd see it as the only way to actually make the story into something worth respecting.
 
Aladdin and Lion King both made at least a billion a piece.
 
VolantRedX said:
Important to note that to most people in the industry animation isn't real film making and that any cartoon is going to be seen as inferior to even a sub-par live-action version. These things would get made even if it was barely profitable because they'd see it as the only way to actually make the story into something worth respecting.
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True, but incredibly frustrating and disgusted.

Remember, the Oscar for best animated movie was an excuse for theme to never have to worry about needed to give best picture to a cartoon after Toy Story.
 
tankdrop24 said:
True, but incredibly frustrating and disgusted.

Remember, the Oscar for best animated movie was an excuse for theme to never have to worry about needed to give best picture to a cartoon after Toy Story.
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Yeah, Hollywood is full of a bunch of stuck-up assholes smelling their own farts. Which is really annoying because they don't bother to learn from other cultures who can do things better.

A bit off topic, but I always felt that Halo 4 and onwards failed at portraying Master Chief's body language in a way that was very pronounced, something that the Japanese Tokusatsu genre mastered literally decades ago. Then Halo 5 comes out and the best fight scene we get between Chief and Locke, the guys who are literal superhumans augmented even further by powered armor, would put even the most casual MMA fan to sleep nevermind actual sci-fi fans who were expecting an epic fight scene.

Meanwhile Vanquish, a game featuring dudes in powered armor beating the shit out of each other made almost 10 years ago, manages to casually do what a fight between two spartans should have been closer to.

 
RoyalNoises said:
My joke that I made when the cast was originally announced was that with this spread, they'd probably cast Ein as a fucking cat.

I wasn't that god damn far off the mark. You fucks seriously couldn't even be bothered to find a REAL CORGI!?

I'm not gonna lie, nothing about this idea makes any sense to me. This has no reason to exist. Cowboy bebop as it exists is as close to perfect as you can possibly get. There is absolutely nothing that you can communicate or express via live action that you can't do better with hand drawn animation. The setting is never going to feel as rich. The music is never going to be as good. This exists purely for an audience of nebulous latecomer pseudo-nerd zoomers who have heard of cowboy bebop but can't be bothered to actually watch it.

The only worse example I can think of is that live action Akira movie that is apparently somehow STILL being made. Akira as a movie is already honestly not that great. The story is bad, and poorly told, and not a very good adaptation. The only thing it has going for it is magnificent and iconic animation, and the proposal Hollywood has is to remove that part of it. A decision I can only attribute to some kind of capitalist lizard person who has heard of art but doesn't know what it actually is.
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I'm pretty sure I saw a tweet from Netflix the other day and this rumor was 100% false they had a corgi that is a dead ringer for Ein. Here's the video from it:
 
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