{"id":106,"date":"2006-01-09T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T17:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=106"},"modified":"2006-01-11T06:03:57","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T11:03:57","slug":"cowboy-beebop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Cowboy Bebop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s do another <a href=\"?p=86\">Dream Cast<\/a>.  If Cowboy Bebop were made into a live-action movie, who would play the main characters? I suggest:<\/p>\n<table width=100%>\n<tr>\n<td valign=top><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/twentysidedtale\/images\/cb_spikea.jpg\" width=272\/><\/td>\n<td valign=top>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001763\/\">Nick Stahl<\/a> as the fearless, lanky, pointy-nosed Spike Spigel.  Spike isn&#8217;t fearless because he thinks he&#8217;s indestructable, he&#8217;s fearless because he doesn&#8217;t seem to care what happens to him.  Stahl could both look and act the part, assuming he&#8217;s up for the stunts and martial arts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/twentysidedtale\/images\/cb_spikeb.jpg\" align=right\/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table width=100%>\n<tr>\n<td valign=top><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/twentysidedtale\/images\/cb_jeta.jpg\" width=272\/><\/td>\n<td valign=top>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0322002\/\">Ron Glass<\/a> as the wise, strong, and patient Jet.  Jet is tricky because he&#8217;s older, yet muscular.  Check out some of the scenes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/firefly\/show\/7097\/summary.html\">Firefly<\/a> where Book and Jamie are lifting weights. Ron glass is <i>ripped<\/i> for a guy his age. He looks and sounds the part. I&#8217;d love to see him do it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/twentysidedtale\/images\/cb_jetb.jpg\"\/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table width=100%>\n<tr>\n<td valign=top><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/twentysidedtale\/images\/cb_eda.jpg\" width=272\/><\/td>\n<td valign=top>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1455681\/\">AnnaSophia Robb<\/a> as the clever and curious Radical Edward.  (Who is a girl) AnnaSophia starred in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317132\/\">Because of Win-Dixie<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0367594\/\">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/a>, and she&#8217;s brilliant.  She&#8217;d have to do the part soon, though: she&#8217;ll be too old in a couple of years.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/twentysidedtale\/images\/cb_edb.jpg\"\/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table width=100%>\n<tr>\n<td valign=top><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/twentysidedtale\/images\/cb_fayea.jpg\" width=272\/><\/td>\n<td valign=top>\n<s><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000379\/\">Kirsten Dunst<\/a> as the irresponsible, trashy, gambling-addict Faye. A young Sharon Stone would be even better, but I think Dunst could pull it off without us needing to resort to time-travel or cloning.<br \/>\n<\/s><br \/>\nHeather points out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001401\/\">Angelina Jolie<\/a> is a much better choice if you want trashy.  She&#8217;s too old, but doesn&#8217;t <i>look<\/i> too old. She&#8217;s better than Dunst, anyway.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/twentysidedtale\/images\/cb_fayeb.jpg\"\/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s do another Dream Cast. If Cowboy Bebop were made into a live-action movie, who would play the main characters? I suggest: Nick Stahl as the fearless, lanky, pointy-nosed Spike Spigel. Spike isn&#8217;t fearless because he thinks he&#8217;s indestructable, he&#8217;s fearless because he doesn&#8217;t seem to care what happens to him. Stahl could both look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}