{"id":369424,"date":"2021-11-19T02:25:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T23:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-cowboy-bebop-fails-to-live-up-to-the-original\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T02:25:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T23:25:21","slug":"how-cowboy-bebop-fails-to-live-up-to-the-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-cowboy-bebop-fails-to-live-up-to-the-original\/","title":{"rendered":"#How &#8216;Cowboy Bebop&#8217; fails to live up to the original"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#How &#8216;Cowboy Bebop&#8217; fails to live up to the original<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Remaking a masterpiece is always a losing proposition. And <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SR0kPGR6jf4\">1998\u2019s \u201cCowboy Bebop\u201d<\/a> stands as maybe the most revered piece of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/anime-manga\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"Anime || Manga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anime<\/a> this side of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PQ3WfTBd17w\">\u201cAkira\u201d<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8RF09G8Ymqg\">\u201cGhost in the Shell.\u201d<\/a> Netflix has boldly gone there anyway, adapting the animated sci-fi-noir-Western to a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ULCIHP5dc44\">live action thriller<\/a> with John Cho in the lead as brooding intergalactic bounty hunter Spike Spiegel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like all private eye yarns, this one revolves around a love affair gone wrong amidst a sea of questionable characters. But it\u2019s mostly an excuse to hang out with a trio of mismatched, cranky, heart-of-gold space cowboys as they flit from one bad-idea job to the next.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cCowboy Bebop\u201d does a couple of things well. First, it updates some racially-homogenous, glaringly sexist aspects of the original. Second, it\u2019s good bait for viewers who shy away from animation. A few tastes of this, and they might be ready for the original\u2019s stronger stuff, conveniently also available on Netflix.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_01010RC.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"John Cho as Spike stands outside alone in the dark with smoke around him looking serious, \" class=\"wp-image-20196273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_01010RC.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_01010RC.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_01010RC.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_01010RC.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>John Cho as Spike in \u201cCowboy Bebop.\u201d <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">KIRSTY GRIFFIN\/NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cho doesn\u2019t dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>oint. He wears Spike\u2019s iconic blue suit with melancholic swagger, his hair \u2013 if not greenish like his animated counterpart\u2019s \u2013 a chaotic cloud that still somehow looks impeccably coiffed. He nails Spike\u2019s soulful nonchalance, and seems totally at ease fighting off thugs with a bathroom towel dispenser or lighting a cigarette as he hangs upside down out a window, bathed in the neon glow of a s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>-joint sign.<\/p>\n<p>Spike\u2019s partner on the patched-up spaceship the <em>Bebop <\/em>is the pilot and ex-cop Jet Black, played by Mustafa Shakir (\u201cLuke Cage\u201d), and although his long mutton chops look hilariously glued-on, it\u2019s nice to see an actor of color in the role. (The English-language voiceover actor who plays him in the anime is Black, but the character is drawn White.) As for Faye Valentine, the amnesia-stricken con woman who joins up with these two: Daniella Pineda\u2019s version is as prickly as the original, and twice as clothed. While the original \u201cBebop\u201d transcended a lot of anime\u2019s ickier leanings, it kept Faye in a barely-there crop top and painfully short shorts. Here, she gets well-deserved pants and combat boots. (Pineda addressed fanboy complaints in a sardonic <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/highlights\/18183095290125102\/?hl=en\">Instagram post<\/a>, apologizing for not being six feet tall with a \u201ctwo-inch waist and double D-size breasts\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB_Unit_18711RC2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), Spike (John Cho), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda), right, in &quot;Cowboy Bebop.&quot; \" class=\"wp-image-20196297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB_Unit_18711RC2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB_Unit_18711RC2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB_Unit_18711RC2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB_Unit_18711RC2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), Spike (John Cho), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda), right, make plans in \u201cCowboy Bebop.\u201d <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">GEOFFREY SHORT\/NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s the show around these three that\u2019s a real mixed bag. The first episode \u2013 or \u201csession,\u201d in keeping with the show\u2019s jazz DNA \u2013 isn\u2019t exactly a shot-for-shot remake of the original\u2019s, but it hews quite closely. The rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> wanders farther afield, adding detail and background to vaguely-sketched characters. I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s a great move with two key players, Spike\u2019s lost love Julia (Elena Satine), and her husband, Spike\u2019s nemesis Vicious (Alex Hassell). The latter is drawn as a menacing, silver-haired demon, but Hassell plays him with perma-rage face and clenched teeth, making him ironically more cartoonish. Satine\u2019s Julia gets more screen time here, but she\u2019s still mostly around to be blonde and sad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_08293RC.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"John Cho as Spike flees a flaming car outside in the dark in &quot;Cowboy Bebop.&quot; \" class=\"wp-image-20196329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_08293RC.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_08293RC.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_08293RC.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_08293RC.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>John Cho as Spike flees a flaming car in \u201cCowboy Bebop.\u201d <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">KIRSTY GRIFFIN\/NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Where the anime favored standalone episodes \u2013 each could really be watched as its own short film, even the ones with nods to the plot thread \u2013 this adaptation puts plot first, which simply isn\u2019t as cool. That might sound trifling, but the whole thing about the series was its coolness. Even as it circled a showdown between Spike and Vicious, it left plenty of room for existential malaise and noir banter. It also featured the de rigeur anime cute kid, who thankfully is mostly absent here. (Sorry, Radical Ed fans.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_07835RC-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Spike (John Cho) faces off against Vicious (Alex Hassell) and lies on the ground in front of a stained glass window with a gun pointed at him in &quot;Cowboy Bebop.&quot; \" class=\"wp-image-20196352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_07835RC-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_07835RC-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_07835RC-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB__Unit_07835RC-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Spike (John Cho) faces off against Vicious (Alex Hassell) in \u201cCowboy Bebop.\u201d <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">GEOFFREY SHORT\/NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The biggest sin the new \u201cBebop\u201d commits is just not being as gorgeous as the original, which was drawn with poetic artistry on par with any live action heavy-hitter. This version turns that poetry into kitsch, which is fun but doesn\u2019t land with the same weight: If the anime was Christopher Nolan\u2019s take on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EXeTwQWrcwY\">Batman<\/a>, this one would be <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ROLvjRB4E_Q\">Joel Schumacher\u2019s<\/a>. But I think there\u2019s room for both, especially when it comes to newcomers to the Cowboy Bebop universe. Welcome, friends. There\u2019s so much for you to discover.\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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And 1998\u2019s \u201cCowboy Bebop\u201d stands as maybe the most revered piece of anime this side of \u201cAkira\u201d and \u201cGhost in the Shell.\u201d Netflix has boldly gone there anyway, adapting the animated sci-fi-noir-Western to a live action thriller&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":369425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/COWBOYBEB_Unit_07433RC2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[119630,2970,1377,1499,87753],"class_list":["post-369424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-18-21","tag-anime","tag-netflix","tag-sci-fi","tag-whats-new-on-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}