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Crazy Movie Night @ My Place
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Purple_Lee replied on Mon Nov 10, 2003 @ 3:32pm |
 Coolness: 239355 | Going to sit down & watch "Cowboy Bebop The Movie"
Directed by: Shinichirô Watanabe Japan. Animated action/adventure. USA / English language. Not your father's cartoon, this full length theatrical feature version of the smart television show of the same name, Cowboy Bebop, is a winner. Set on the planet Mars in the late 21st century, a group of renegade bounty hunters rise to the enticement of a $300,000,000 reward for nabbing the culprits who exploded a truck, unleashing a deadly virus. Cowboy Faye Valentine happened to be in the vicinity and caught the terrorist attack on camera, including a shot of the mysterious and familiar Vincent, fleeing the scene. With cohorts Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, computer whiz Edward Wong Hau, and their canine-android mascot, Ein, they are off in pursuit of Vincent and the cash. If the plot sounds formulaic, the execution is fresh and oh so timely. From the skillful team of artists led by director Shinichirô Watanabe, this is classic Japanese anime, updated with a complexity and story line for the new millennium. The genre's reliance on allusion to popular culture (a gang of oldster Space Cowboys who can still pilot a space craft when needed, or a mass transit chase Popeye Doyle would be proud of) make it interesting and entertaining, even to those not previously acquainted with Bebop. Some not-so-well-known references (the Captain Queeg gesture of nervously palming deadly virus-containing marbles) are abundant and fun to catch. The bad guys are still wearing black but the lines separating the good, the bad and the ugly are far from clear ones, as they are in an old Gunsmoke episode our anti-heroes are watching on the tube. This group of urban cowboys are bounty hunters with a conscience, but unhindered by the constraints of lawmen. As with all science fiction, its hypothetical setting removes from it the requirement of creating reality, allowing the exaggerated visuals to tell a satisfying tale on their own. Although I'd stop short of describing the observations as visionary, it comes together nicely to provoke interesting thoughts about current events wrapped up in captivating entertainment. Looking like a mix of New York City, Morocco, Paris, and the Martian desert, a post 9/11 milieu is invoked. The specter of the World Trade Center is raised and as Mars prepares to celebrate a doomsday Halloween, a heinous plan is being carried out for mass destruction. That most versatile aspect of animation¾anything that can be drawn is fair game¾greatly expands the possibilities. Here, it gives voice and vision to the speculation of fertile minds, as they run away with coulda, woulda, shoulda possibilities. Characteristic of engaging science fiction is its' idiosyncrasy of being not about some otherworldly milieu, but rather saying a lot about the time in which it was written. It's as true for Cowboy Bebop as it was for Jules Verne in his day, as his work explored the blue planet. These characters are fully enough developed and cleverly cross-pollinated to share key traits. Is the man who lives in dreams the sleepy Spike or tormented Vincent; trapped in his waking-life dream, from which he aches to wake? Cowboy Bebop Combines the best elements of the puzzle film (Mulholland Drive, Memento) without leaving you feeling like you've been tricked, but rather that you are let in on the big picture a little at a time. The film works as a suspense drama, and equally as well within the subtexts of global politics or the power of a tortured loner with nothing to lose. For the bebop gang, the rules of engagement are in the tradition of rugged individualist cowboys with their own code, taming the American old west, itself a creation of Hollywood. The faithful lobbied and won to make sure the English language voices for the film were the same as the ones they know and love from the TV series. This aspect of anime adds to making it hugely popular, as it can be dubbed successfully into as many languages as necessary to make it particular to each audience. Also gone is the sameness of facial features that marked much of the genre until recently, making these characters acceptably true to life. peeps are welcome to watch tonight @ 8 pm @ my place Address & phone number to those who message me on rave wave Lee |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Mon Nov 10, 2003 @ 5:11pm |
 Coolness: 340400 | alrighty. be there arround 8:20ish
what's your buzzer no. again? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Purple_Lee replied on Mon Nov 10, 2003 @ 6:03pm |
| Coolness: 239355 | nope the buzzer does not work, but the door is open....okay movie starts @ 8:30 pm
Lee |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PoiSoNeD_CaNdY replied on Mon Nov 10, 2003 @ 6:05pm |
 Coolness: 92425 | cool! i will be there |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» kitkat replied on Mon Nov 10, 2003 @ 8:50pm |
 Coolness: 71985 | damn...just found out bout this and its almost 9 :( |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Nov 10, 2003 @ 9:50pm |
 Coolness: 686325 | I'd have loved to go but I'm damn tired. I love Cowboy Bebop though. Ed the Hacker is the greatest. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Purple_Lee replied on Mon Nov 10, 2003 @ 11:57pm |
| Coolness: 239355 | well i loved the movie....animation was sweet.
For the next one i will post it not sio last minute folks:) Until later Fred the hacker was soo freaking cute:) Lee |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» kitkat replied on Tue Nov 11, 2003 @ 1:08am |
| Coolness: 71985 | havent seen the movie but the series is great :) |
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