Cowboy Bebop Thread - Live-Action Adaptation cancelled after one season (it was shit)

[StarkRavingMad]

These retards don't seem to realize just because something looks cool as animation doesn't mean it will translate well to live action. Or do we need to be reminded of the live action Fist of the North Star?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MUVukUuF9tw

It's almost like animation is actually a legitimate artform, or something ...

Normies don't understand that shit, though. That's why the Disney live action remakes exist, even though those movies are unwatchable.

Alan Moore has a particular attitude about comic books as a medium: That comics are their own thing as a legitimate artform, and that it is mostly pointless to adapt comic books through another medium. In many cases, I agree with this sentiment-- that's why the Watchmen comic book/graphic novel is the only version of that property that I would recommend to people.

I agree with Alan Moore's sentiments when it comes to animation as well. Some things were made to not be done in live action. Plain and simple. Netflix's recreation of the Tank opening looks like shit because it's not animated, for starters. The live action Disney remakes look absolutely dull and lifeless because something like an animated candlestick or lion has the ability to emote and look nice, whereas they look emotionless and haunted in a more "realistic" depiction.

Fuck the normies who look down on animation. Truly.

 

[Trilby]

It's almost like animation is actually a legitimate artform, or something ...

Normies don't understand that shit, though. That's why the Disney live action remakes exist, even though those movies are unwatchable.

Alan Moore has a particular attitude about comic books as a medium: That comics are their own thing as a legitimate artform, and that it is mostly pointless to adapt comic books through another medium. In many cases, I agree with this sentiment-- that's why the Watchmen comic book/graphic novel is the only version of that property that I would recommend to people.

I agree with Alan Moore's sentiments when it comes to animation as well. Some things were made to not be done in live action. Plain and simple. Netflix's recreation of the Tank opening looks like shit because it's not animated, for starters. The live action Disney remakes look absolutely dull and lifeless because something like an animated candlestick or lion has the ability to emote and look nice, whereas they look emotionless and haunted in a more "realistic" depiction.

Fuck the normies who look down on animation. Truly.

And yet I think of "Story of Ricky", a HK film based on a Japanese manga!

 

[Dr. Pasquale]

And yet I think of "Story of Ricky", a HK film based on a Japanese manga!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rPfbwIUmnbc

Riki-Oh is the closest we'll ever get to a proper HnK live action movie.

I wouldnt say adaptating animations will always be bound to fail, but you gotta make some fundamental changes for the content to fit in the new format. The Bebop adaptation niggas are just trying to have their cake and eat it too. "We're doing something completely new with the IP, so don't @ us if you don't think its faithful" but also "We're going to basically remake the opening of the anime using live action".

You gotta choose one here. Its been said before, but I think Edge of Tomorrow is the most successfull Hollywood adaptation of a JP manga because all it took from it was the core idea and powers, the rest was new stuff + Tom Cruise.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Netflix's recreation of the Tank opening looks like shit because it's not animated, for starters.

I think even live-action can work for the opening. The problem was the visuals didn't match the beats, they just kinda zoomed into places that "look close enough". Homages get that down-pat, even in their own original musical take on it, there is no excuse to not have a sense of rhythm.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I just realized that after watching the trailer for the opening of the live action version of Cowboy Bebop, I’m now concerned as to what the opening for the live action version of One Piece is going to look like on Netflix



This was NOT thought out all the way through.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I am genuinely wondering what the fuck is up with Ed. They haven't shown her in any cast photos and she's not in the opening. It can't be to avoid spoilers, because the two characters you'd absolutely want to avoid showing are Julia and Vicious.

Probably a tease for the second season or appears later as a surprise to the normies this show was made for. It's weird since they show characters who appear way later in the show that came after Ed (Mad Pierrot and Teddy Bear Bomber).

But I can't wait till they ruin Ed by making her serious or just a generic MCU "Lol so Randum" quipster.

 

[Corpun]

For fuckssakes, don't tell me they got Wanda pissing Sykes as VT

I actually forgot they will probably turn VT into a butch dyke who hates men for hitting on her, not cowboys because her husband died in the business.

Probably a tease for the second season or appears later as a surprise to the normies this show was made for. It's weird since they show characters who appear way later in the show that came after Ed (Mad Pierrot and Teddy Bear Bomber).

But I can't wait till they ruin Ed by making her serious or just a generic MCU "Lol so Randum" quipster.

Yeah I imagine the last episode will have some cocktease at the end where Ed hacks into their comms and it's made to look like a super threatening cliffhanger. That or she pops up in the last scene in full LGBTQIAA whatever glory.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Yeah I imagine the last episode will have some cocktease at the end where Ed hacks into their comms and it's made to look like a super threatening cliffhanger. That or she pops up in the last scene in full LGBTQIAA whatever glory.

Yep and given the show's goal to be an expansion of the source material, I won't be surprised if they involve Ed in the super serious drama or make Ed a transboy despite her being a tomgirl who doesn't give a shit and lives in her own world

 

[Corpun]

Yep and given the show's goal to be an expansion of the source material, I won't be surprised if they involve Ed in the super serious drama or make Ed a transboy despite her being a tomgirl who doesn't give a shit and lives in her own world

How much you want to bet she hired the crew to whiteknight for her because of viscous heteronormative boys at an orphanage calling her a woman to some shit?

 

[Miller]

I am genuinely wondering what the fuck is up with Ed. They haven't shown her in any cast photos and she's not in the opening. It can't be to avoid spoilers, because the two characters you'd absolutely want to avoid showing are Julia and Vicious.

I still believe that this is Ed:

 

[Aib Ld]

I found it weird how everyone seems to be not bothered with Jet despite the raceswap, I'm not bothered by it either. But mostly everyone else misses the mark and deserves the hate. It's like you can tell Jet is still Jet (and maaaybe the same personalty-wise) but then you see Gren and Vicious and recoil in disgust.

 

[Uranus Pink]

It's almost like animation is actually a legitimate artform, or something ...

Normies don't understand that shit, though. That's why the Disney live action remakes exist, even though those movies are unwatchable.

Alan Moore has a particular attitude about comic books as a medium: That comics are their own thing as a legitimate artform, and that it is mostly pointless to adapt comic books through another medium. In many cases, I agree with this sentiment-- that's why the Watchmen comic book/graphic novel is the only version of that property that I would recommend to people.

Yet Sin City shown it is entirely possible to do comic accurate movie when you have the people including director Robert Rodriguez giving a fuck to get the creator ala Frank Miller on board. With the only real changes were recompositing of select scenes to take into account of the different mediums.

I agree with Alan Moore's sentiments when it comes to animation as well. Some things were made to not be done in live action. Plain and simple.

Agreed

Fuck the normies who look down on animation. Truly.

Thank Disney for cultivating that normie mindset as animation have been existing since the 19th Century not with them.

 

[cactus]

I found it weird how everyone seems to be not bothered with Jet despite the raceswap, I'm not bothered by it either. But mostly everyone else misses the mark and deserves the hate. It's like you can tell Jet is still Jet (and maaaybe the same personalty-wise) but then you see Gren and Vicious and recoil in disgust.

And I just realized, this is the first time they've shown us Vicious. He looks like a walking corpse and he has frizzy hair. And apparently they couldn't even give the guy playing "Gren" a fucking wig.

 

[Art Kassul]

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The appearance of the woman in the upper left is always a sign of monumentally bad casting, always a terrible choice.

 

[CWCissey]

I still believe that this is Ed:

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She's Jet's daughter. It even says on the link you posted.

 

[Corpun]

I found it weird how everyone seems to be not bothered with Jet despite the raceswap, I'm not bothered by it either. But mostly everyone else misses the mark and deserves the hate. It's like you can tell Jet is still Jet (and maaaybe the same personalty-wise) but then you see Gren and Vicious and recoil in disgust.

Jet's English VA is black so most people can ignore that race swapping.

 

[Internet's Boyfriend]

Subtile Orientalism?

Maybe, could just be that my focus is drawn to the text in the middle so not having the English title as the focal point is offputting.

Though I do hope some retard throws a bitch fit saying it's racist that they made the Japanese text smaller.

I found it weird how everyone seems to be not bothered with Jet despite the raceswap, I'm not bothered by it either. But mostly everyone else misses the mark and deserves the hate. It's like you can tell Jet is still Jet (and maaaybe the same personalty-wise) but then you see Gren and Vicious and recoil in disgust.

Maybe people are just so used to characters being blackwashed that they've become numb to it. Or like you said, maybe it's that the other castings are so horrifically off-base that Jet being black is no big deal.

 

[CWCissey]

Maybe people are just so used to characters being blackwashed that they've become numb to it. Or like you said, maybe it's that the other castings are so horrifically off-base that Jet being black is no big deal.

I just think it's that Jet just comes across as black. He's a bit ambiguous physically, but you could see him as a black dude.

Spike and Faye have either a different ethnicity amongst the fanbase or an established canon one.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

I just realized that after watching the trailer for the opening of the live action version of Cowboy Bebop, I’m now concerned as to what the opening for the live action version of One Piece is going to look like on Netflix

I am praying the One Piece adaptation spends eternity in development hell. Its impossible to pull off. Impossible.

 

[Pringles Can]

Yet another live action show that proves that most of the time if the show/movie was originally animated, it probably was for the best. If the trailer and opening did one good thing for me though, it made me want to rewatch Cowboy Bebop again. Just not their shitty live action version.