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Being familiar with the name of the anime series, at first, that sporadically airs on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim showcase (I'm not a late-night TV watcher), I was interested in the theatrical film version of COWBOY BEBOP. Unfortunately, I didn't have cash when the film came out in selective theaters. Fortunately, I got the film on DVD and I fell in love with it.
2071 is the year and Mars is the planet to be since the Earth was damaged by a geological disaster. Human civilization and the things that make it up have thrived. So has the criminal element. A tanker truck is exploded during morning rush hour in Alba City, Mars's capital metropolis, releasing a deadly virus that kills once inhaled. The ISSP (Inter Solar Systems Police) is baffled, due to red tape, ineffectiveness and corrpution. A large reward, 300 million woolongs (Martian currency) is advertised, and the bounty hunting crew of the spacecraft, "Bebop", are on the case (Bounty hunters are referred as "cowboys"). It's Scooby-Doo and his pals, R-rated style.
Imagine a 20-something Clint Eastwood who's Jewish and moves like Bruce Lee, and you have main hero Spike Spiegel, a devil-may-care guy who deals with his adversaries with wit, bullets and Jeet Kun Do. He's a cool cat with cool moves. His good partner, Jet Black, is an ex-ISSP man, who lost his arm during a police case. Being the oldest, Jet's respects the old ways of combat and honor, making him hungry for being a "solo act" and not dealing with Spike's "eagerness" during tense situations.
Sexiness and craftiness is handled by Faye Valentine (the sexiest character in anime, I think), a "gypsy" who dresses like a harlot yet fights like the boys. Her downfall is gambling her money and her life. She's lucky when it comes down to her life. Faye and Spike are hard yet playful rivals when it comes down to the bounty. They look like lovers but fight like siblings. Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV (what a name!) could be their sister. Yeah. Kid sister. 13 years old and the only Earth-born member, Ed's an idiot savant. She's a genius with computers, but her feelings and mercurial, feline-like personality get in the way of normal social logic. In one scene, she dives into a vase. Spike refers to her as a trained seal. Any parent would probably drink if Ed was their kid. Imagine if she discovered boys? And there's Ein, a dog from the Welsh Corgi breed who's smarter than your average Welsh Corgi, let alone a dog. Not only he can play shoji, the Mars version of chess, Ein can identify bounties, like the movie's wraith-like villain, Vincent Volaju, an soldier thought to be dead three years ago during a war on Titan, one of Saturn's moons. This guy has death written on his face.
Another hunter after Volaju is Electra Ovilo, an agent for a shifty pharmaceutical company and a woman whom Spike falls for. "I like the kind of woman who can kick my ass," he says while fighting her. But Electra has Vincent on her mind. The connection between them would be saying too much.
The routine plot and the standard TV animation by Sunrise (they worked on the show) is actually helped by the vivid characters and the electric jazz-rock-funk score of the TV series' composer Yoko Kanno (the female answer to Lalo Schifrin, the creator of the "Mission: Impossible" theme) and the band Seatbelts. Also, director Shinchiro Watanabe, the helmsman of all 26 episodes and two "Animatrix" shorts, makes "Bebop" a sweet stew of different locales and cultures (the animators have traveled to New York, Paris and Morocco for references), subtle comedy, tense drama and fierce action sequences. The dogfight scene, with Kanno's toe-tapping score, is superb: Spike avoiding three army jets in his Swordfish craft.
Like Osamu Tezkua's METROPOLIS, BEBOP is an interesting allegory to the Sept 11. attacks. In fact, the film was released in its native Japan ten days before the attacks, making it a hot potato for Sony Pictures' Destination Films department. They released it anyway, and I'm happy for that. The DVD extras are neat too, including six documentaries that focus on the TV show's transition to theatrical film, the international appeal and the four main heroes. Seeing both the English and Japanese voice actors is a treat.
With no sense of social cowardice in an unsure world, "Bebop" is a smooth, sweet middle finger for those who feel animated films and TV shows should be only for kids.
2071 is the year and Mars is the planet to be since the Earth was damaged by a geological disaster. Human civilization and the things that make it up have thrived. So has the criminal element. A tanker truck is exploded during morning rush hour in Alba City, Mars's capital metropolis, releasing a deadly virus that kills once inhaled. The ISSP (Inter Solar Systems Police) is baffled, due to red tape, ineffectiveness and corrpution. A large reward, 300 million woolongs (Martian currency) is advertised, and the bounty hunting crew of the spacecraft, "Bebop", are on the case (Bounty hunters are referred as "cowboys"). It's Scooby-Doo and his pals, R-rated style.
Imagine a 20-something Clint Eastwood who's Jewish and moves like Bruce Lee, and you have main hero Spike Spiegel, a devil-may-care guy who deals with his adversaries with wit, bullets and Jeet Kun Do. He's a cool cat with cool moves. His good partner, Jet Black, is an ex-ISSP man, who lost his arm during a police case. Being the oldest, Jet's respects the old ways of combat and honor, making him hungry for being a "solo act" and not dealing with Spike's "eagerness" during tense situations.
Sexiness and craftiness is handled by Faye Valentine (the sexiest character in anime, I think), a "gypsy" who dresses like a harlot yet fights like the boys. Her downfall is gambling her money and her life. She's lucky when it comes down to her life. Faye and Spike are hard yet playful rivals when it comes down to the bounty. They look like lovers but fight like siblings. Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV (what a name!) could be their sister. Yeah. Kid sister. 13 years old and the only Earth-born member, Ed's an idiot savant. She's a genius with computers, but her feelings and mercurial, feline-like personality get in the way of normal social logic. In one scene, she dives into a vase. Spike refers to her as a trained seal. Any parent would probably drink if Ed was their kid. Imagine if she discovered boys? And there's Ein, a dog from the Welsh Corgi breed who's smarter than your average Welsh Corgi, let alone a dog. Not only he can play shoji, the Mars version of chess, Ein can identify bounties, like the movie's wraith-like villain, Vincent Volaju, an soldier thought to be dead three years ago during a war on Titan, one of Saturn's moons. This guy has death written on his face.
Another hunter after Volaju is Electra Ovilo, an agent for a shifty pharmaceutical company and a woman whom Spike falls for. "I like the kind of woman who can kick my ass," he says while fighting her. But Electra has Vincent on her mind. The connection between them would be saying too much.
The routine plot and the standard TV animation by Sunrise (they worked on the show) is actually helped by the vivid characters and the electric jazz-rock-funk score of the TV series' composer Yoko Kanno (the female answer to Lalo Schifrin, the creator of the "Mission: Impossible" theme) and the band Seatbelts. Also, director Shinchiro Watanabe, the helmsman of all 26 episodes and two "Animatrix" shorts, makes "Bebop" a sweet stew of different locales and cultures (the animators have traveled to New York, Paris and Morocco for references), subtle comedy, tense drama and fierce action sequences. The dogfight scene, with Kanno's toe-tapping score, is superb: Spike avoiding three army jets in his Swordfish craft.
Like Osamu Tezkua's METROPOLIS, BEBOP is an interesting allegory to the Sept 11. attacks. In fact, the film was released in its native Japan ten days before the attacks, making it a hot potato for Sony Pictures' Destination Films department. They released it anyway, and I'm happy for that. The DVD extras are neat too, including six documentaries that focus on the TV show's transition to theatrical film, the international appeal and the four main heroes. Seeing both the English and Japanese voice actors is a treat.
With no sense of social cowardice in an unsure world, "Bebop" is a smooth, sweet middle finger for those who feel animated films and TV shows should be only for kids.
That's the best description I could come up with after seeing "The Big Lebowski", a quirky, belly-shaking, tripping shamus comedy.
Pacifist deadbeat and bowler Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (lovable shaggy dog Jeff Bridges) is a victim of mistaken identity when two dopes rough him up and p*** on his rug, wanting money. The real target is a wealthy, paraplegic philanthropist (David Huddleston of "Blazing Saddles"). "The Dude" wants reimbursement for the rug, but finds rich Lebowski is a hypocrite. However, his trophy wife Bunny (Tara Reid of the first two "American Pie" films) is kidnapped and asks "The Dude" (love that nickname) to play courier for the ransom, yet there's something rotten in Denmark.
Joel and Ethan Coen (they're both writers, producers and directors in my view) has performed another masterpiece for movie fans who don't want the same, run-of-the-mill junk from the dream factory all the time. The actors' performances are well steered. John Goodman, a stock actor in the Coens' universe, is funny as Walter, Bridges' volatile bowling chap and a class-A oaf, who thinks everything has to do with the Vietnam War, which he fought in, much to The Dude's grief. Julianne Moore (who looks like my kindergarten teacher which I had a crush on) is sexy as Maude, the rich Lebowski's daughter who creates strong, feminist artwork (any relation to the same named sitcom with Bea Arthur) and helps out the Dude (in more ways than one :)). Plus, other Coen figures, John Turturro (a grad of my elementary school, St. Clare in Queens, NY) and Steve Buscemi (former Valley Stream, Long Island resident and firefighter), are fun too. What caps the film is the "Gutterballs" sequence (the Kenny Rogers song, the Saddam Hussein lookalike, Moore as a Viking, Bridges as a TV repair guy and the bowling pin dancers rock!) and "The Stranger", played by dry-voiced Sam Elliot, who questioned his participation in the film. Was he supposed to be God or what? Then again, weirdness is the rule of the Coen Brothers' films and it hasn't failed them. Far from it, to quote "The Stranger".
Enjoy this film. ;)
Pacifist deadbeat and bowler Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (lovable shaggy dog Jeff Bridges) is a victim of mistaken identity when two dopes rough him up and p*** on his rug, wanting money. The real target is a wealthy, paraplegic philanthropist (David Huddleston of "Blazing Saddles"). "The Dude" wants reimbursement for the rug, but finds rich Lebowski is a hypocrite. However, his trophy wife Bunny (Tara Reid of the first two "American Pie" films) is kidnapped and asks "The Dude" (love that nickname) to play courier for the ransom, yet there's something rotten in Denmark.
Joel and Ethan Coen (they're both writers, producers and directors in my view) has performed another masterpiece for movie fans who don't want the same, run-of-the-mill junk from the dream factory all the time. The actors' performances are well steered. John Goodman, a stock actor in the Coens' universe, is funny as Walter, Bridges' volatile bowling chap and a class-A oaf, who thinks everything has to do with the Vietnam War, which he fought in, much to The Dude's grief. Julianne Moore (who looks like my kindergarten teacher which I had a crush on) is sexy as Maude, the rich Lebowski's daughter who creates strong, feminist artwork (any relation to the same named sitcom with Bea Arthur) and helps out the Dude (in more ways than one :)). Plus, other Coen figures, John Turturro (a grad of my elementary school, St. Clare in Queens, NY) and Steve Buscemi (former Valley Stream, Long Island resident and firefighter), are fun too. What caps the film is the "Gutterballs" sequence (the Kenny Rogers song, the Saddam Hussein lookalike, Moore as a Viking, Bridges as a TV repair guy and the bowling pin dancers rock!) and "The Stranger", played by dry-voiced Sam Elliot, who questioned his participation in the film. Was he supposed to be God or what? Then again, weirdness is the rule of the Coen Brothers' films and it hasn't failed them. Far from it, to quote "The Stranger".
Enjoy this film. ;)
Two schmucks try to rob a rich guy's house. They get mistaken as the owners when beautiful women show up for a casting party.
I saw this on Comedy Central. What a s--- of a film.
The unedited version has nudity but who cares? Buy a copy of Playboy and feel sorry for Ted Lange (Issac the bartender from "The Love Boat") who plays the bad guy badly.
I saw this on Comedy Central. What a s--- of a film.
The unedited version has nudity but who cares? Buy a copy of Playboy and feel sorry for Ted Lange (Issac the bartender from "The Love Boat") who plays the bad guy badly.