Hood Cowboy Bebop
January 5, 2020 12:09 PM Subscribe
KING VADER presents a live action parody of the animated adventures of Spike Spiegel: Hood Cowboy Bebop (Part Two)
This is so far from where I sit, having never seen the anime, and being some old white dude, but, my god, the vitality of these two shorts is so amazing. Wow.
posted by njohnson23 at 3:46 PM on January 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by njohnson23 at 3:46 PM on January 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
The movement was spot on.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:48 PM on January 5, 2020
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:48 PM on January 5, 2020
The remix is outrageously good; I don't know if it speaks to Yoko Kanno's original brilliance or whoever played with it this time more, all I know is I want a full album immediately.
The guy who played Spike really conveyed that infectious joy just right, but Jet was perfect. Perfect! I totally bought into the robo arm because of how assuredly he carried himself.
posted by Mizu at 4:54 PM on January 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
The guy who played Spike really conveyed that infectious joy just right, but Jet was perfect. Perfect! I totally bought into the robo arm because of how assuredly he carried himself.
posted by Mizu at 4:54 PM on January 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
King Vader makes such good stuff. I've been down on technology lately, but lowering the barrier so that so many creative young people can make and share their amazing work is one of the better points in its favor.
posted by gc at 5:05 PM on January 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by gc at 5:05 PM on January 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
These are a lot of fun as both a wonderfully silly parody of CB and showcase for the creators' video production/cosplay talents), while also reaching back to the same New Wave filmmaking aesthetics that Shinichiro Watanabe and the rest of the Sunrise team tapped into with the original.
When Jean-Luc Godard made Alphaville, he didn't sweat over depicting ordinary cars as spaceships and generic office buildings as supercomputer laboratories, he just made the hard-boiled sci-fi movie he wanted to make with what he had on hand in Paris.
Same deal with these guys -- sure, the original Bebop setting wasn't much like the decidedly suburban-California-backyard version of "Mars" we see here (although I will also point out that nothing prevents it from existing within the canon Bebop world) -- but that didn't stop these guys from making something really cool with what they had access to.
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:14 PM on January 5, 2020
When Jean-Luc Godard made Alphaville, he didn't sweat over depicting ordinary cars as spaceships and generic office buildings as supercomputer laboratories, he just made the hard-boiled sci-fi movie he wanted to make with what he had on hand in Paris.
Same deal with these guys -- sure, the original Bebop setting wasn't much like the decidedly suburban-California-backyard version of "Mars" we see here (although I will also point out that nothing prevents it from existing within the canon Bebop world) -- but that didn't stop these guys from making something really cool with what they had access to.
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:14 PM on January 5, 2020
My people nerding out on YouTube with creative parodies (like CalebCity and his anime/video game stuff) and send ups is my favorite genre! Thanks for linking this
posted by Freeze Peach at 7:20 PM on January 5, 2020
posted by Freeze Peach at 7:20 PM on January 5, 2020
I'd also like to contrast this with the baby-man fanboys who raised a million dollars a couple of years ago to ostensibly remake The Last Jedi because of their disgust with its vision of a less-white, less-male, less-hereditary privileged Star Wars. Last I checked, they still haven't actually produced anything for us to see. Presumably, they came out of the new Star Wars flick, checklists in hand, and realized that if they just whine about things enough, Hollywood will always pull things back to their level.
Meanwhile, King Vader and his collaborators are taking their love of anime and genre films and actually applying that fandom to something tangible that they can show the world, raising the bar for what other folks can do in their own fan films, and raising their own profiles as nonwhite artists as a nice bonus. I really want to see what he ends up pulling off in the next 10 years.
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:32 PM on January 5, 2020 [7 favorites]
Meanwhile, King Vader and his collaborators are taking their love of anime and genre films and actually applying that fandom to something tangible that they can show the world, raising the bar for what other folks can do in their own fan films, and raising their own profiles as nonwhite artists as a nice bonus. I really want to see what he ends up pulling off in the next 10 years.
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:32 PM on January 5, 2020 [7 favorites]
I hope part 3 has more Ed and Ein.
posted by zengargoyle at 8:13 PM on January 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by zengargoyle at 8:13 PM on January 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
You would've thought fist-bumping Jet would be painful, but I suppose this Spike is just that badass. Cute!
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 9:16 PM on January 5, 2020
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 9:16 PM on January 5, 2020
God, delightful parody with great music, and this just really made me miss the long walks down Valley alleys I used to take in my youth. The alley scene probably wasn't actually filmed in Canoga Park but man did I spend a lot of time in one that looked just exactly like that...
posted by potrzebie at 10:12 PM on January 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by potrzebie at 10:12 PM on January 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
These are awesome. Thank you so much for sharing this! The attitude is perfect.
posted by biscotti at 3:45 AM on January 6, 2020
posted by biscotti at 3:45 AM on January 6, 2020
I love this team so much.
posted by Young Kullervo at 4:53 AM on January 6, 2020
posted by Young Kullervo at 4:53 AM on January 6, 2020
Same deal with these guys -- sure, the original Bebop setting wasn't much like the decidedly suburban-California-backyard version of "Mars" we see here (although I will also point out that nothing prevents it from existing within the canon Bebop world) -- but that didn't stop these guys from making something really cool with what they had access to.
I'm reminded of the episode that was a riff on Desperado, which meant that Spike and company land on a planet that looked suspiciously like a Mexican border town. Which, to bring it around full circle, was the sequel/remake of the very bare bones El Mariachi which had very little budget but a whole lot of heart. Man, I love low budget filmmaking by folks that love what they do.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 5:02 AM on January 6, 2020 [2 favorites]
I'm reminded of the episode that was a riff on Desperado, which meant that Spike and company land on a planet that looked suspiciously like a Mexican border town. Which, to bring it around full circle, was the sequel/remake of the very bare bones El Mariachi which had very little budget but a whole lot of heart. Man, I love low budget filmmaking by folks that love what they do.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 5:02 AM on January 6, 2020 [2 favorites]
These guys are way better than the previous low budget attempt at recreating classics
posted by Nanukthedog at 5:15 AM on January 7, 2020
posted by Nanukthedog at 5:15 AM on January 7, 2020
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