{"id":190,"date":"2009-04-28T15:39:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T20:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=190"},"modified":"2010-06-26T23:50:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T04:50:13","slug":"whoa-julia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Whoa!  Julia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, this fact slipped under my radar for months:  <a href=\"http:\/\/anime.about.com\/b\/2009\/01\/19\/keanu-reeves-to-play-spike-spiegel-in-live-action-cowboy-bebop-flick.htm\">Keanu Reeves has signed on as Spike Spiegel<\/a> in the live-action remake of <i>Cowboy Bebop<\/i>.  <\/p>\n<p>If you have never seen <i>Cowboy Bebop<\/i>, run out <b>today<\/b> and buy, borrow, or beg a copy to watch.  <i>Cowboy Bebep<\/i> is one of the best anime productions ever made and has a very strong following.  The strength of the show comes from the combination of great, believable characters, fun action sequences, and excellent soundtracks.  What really solidifies <i>Cowboy Bebop<\/i> as my favorite anime are the over-arcing story lines that reveal each character&#8217;s past and then show that past catching up to them.  And most of the time dedicated to those story arcs are spent on the main character, Spike Spiegel.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that style does not translate well to a movie format.  Although the characters can stand on their own, the movie will lack the story-telling magic that defined the success of the series.  Instead, the movie will have to rely solely on the characters and a well-written, self-contained story.  And in a live-action adaptation, that means that the actors must do a good job of matching the original character from the series.<\/p>\n<p>So that means that the big question for the movie is:  Will Keanu be believable as Spike?  I guess we&#8217;ll find out when (if) the movie is released.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to know:  Who will be cast as Faye?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, this fact slipped under my radar for months: Keanu Reeves has signed on as Spike Spiegel in the live-action remake of Cowboy Bebop. If you have never seen Cowboy Bebop, run out today and buy, borrow, or beg a copy to watch. Cowboy Bebep is one of the best anime productions ever made and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2d","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}