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What A Cartoon Movie! - Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
🕑 Added 2019-10-01 00:47:51 +0000 UTCThough the Cowboy Bebop television series has a definitive end, its creators couldn't leave it behind forever. So, 2001 gave us Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's door—renamed Cowboy Bebop: The Movie in America so as not to offend Bob Dylan—a standalone adventure with Spike and the gang that gave us all the great action, comedy, and most importantly, animation we loved in the TV series—just a lot more of it. Listen in as we give a full history of the film's production, and, as always, provide a blow-by-blow discussion of the movie itself. As with all of our What A Cartoon Movie! episodes, you're bound to think it's "so long, space cowboy."
[TV series history segment ends at 16:41.]
Comments
YawnSong
I never felt Spike had serious romantic feelings for Elektra. Just like he never did for Faye.
The part where Bob and Henry talk about older generations not understanding anime and perceiving it as "pervert cartoons" brings up a frustrating moment from my childhood. When I was 11 or 12 I had saved up enough money to buy the anime boxset of “Read or Die: The TV”. However, the only place I could buy it was online so I had worked out a deal with my mom where I would give her the cash and she’d pay with her credit card. So after Thanksgiving dinner I’m sitting in the living room on a laptop with my extended family when my brother’s wife walks into the room and overhears us talking about ordering this anime. Being the delightful Mid-West American Christian she is, she felt compelled to immediately address my mom in front of everyone saying “You know he’s ordering porn right? Anime is porn. He's tryin get you to order porn.” I remember flushing red as everybody looked at me in the room and shy pre-teen me stumbling to articulate that she was wrong and what anime really is. But in the end I couldn't order the boxset I had saved up for and I was under strict supervision when it came to me trying to watch anime on tv. I'm glad today anime is much more mainstream than it was back then, but I know at least in my family there are still those who are suspicious of it as "cartoons for perverts".
The butterflies might be a reference to "Kocho no yume (胡蝶の夢)" which translates to "Butterfly dream" a saying used to express not knowing if you're dreaming or not. It comes from a Chinese philosopher who dreamed he was a butterfly but woke up and was unsure if he was the butterfly dreaming about being human.
Chris Rowland
This may have been my favorite WaCM you guys have done yet. Took me through the entire work day. Thank you both so much for this! I really needed it today.
Deve_Dy
I'll always love revisiting this movie. Thanks for the detailed look. Now I'm sort of hopeful that you'll take a swing at Samurai Champloo someday.
