I Edited Netflix's Cowboy Bebop 

Not gonna lie, this was a fun challenge and I don't think it came out half bad. Hope you all enjoy!

This is something you can teach in a film class or something. It’s incredible what shaving off a few frames can do for a fight scene to make it feel more engaging. A pity nobody told that to the Netflix crew.

Ok this is way much better. After seeing the original live action version and editing version, the editing version is way better because the pacing is better, where live action drags way too long with pointless dialogue, this one is way better. I can say the editing version is better and you great job with this.

You really understand the bad editing of the fight scene, congratulations 👍

I like your edit better. As a quick note if it was me I would've put the "you were supposed to wait for my signal" right before Spike's last shot. Great edit still!

1:27 I just love that he comes out of the ceiling and then it’s all like “god same it spike”

The original one was so awkward. I even feel that's like a parody, not an action movie. I much prefer your editing and I am enjoying your great job

I found this part of the show oddly too violent. It is even worse when we find out that the crew was supposed to take them alive. An oddly violent, yet bloodless series of shootings and even a stabbing. Like how in the edit Spike still teleports 30 feet in front of the two other guys! XD

Can re edit the whole series? hahah This was awesome

Wow, that was amazing - it really shows what a difference a good editor can make. You're really good! This was great.

3:08 OH MY GOD YOU FIXED THIS ONE SECOND. IT BUGGED THE ABSOLUTE SHIT OUT OF ME WHEN I SAW IT LINGERING FOR THE FIRST TIME.

In another one of your edits, I couldn't tell much of the difference. This one, I could DEFINITELY tell. So many waste of time scenes were edited out and it turned out amazing!

LOL, im happy u got rid of the awkward parts like the line "youre supposed to wait for my signal" and that too long of a shot on Spikes face after

I love the Netflix cowboy bebop

you did a great job editing the action/reaction to each of the hits, and the scene flow much better for it. The original, and most of the other fight scenes just didn't flow as well as the could have, with all of the 'hit-pause-hit-pause' fighting. Well done!

It's a shame, so much hard work went into this show just for it all to be pissed away by the editing, direction, and scripts.

Ok, so while both edits are good, I just to explain what the Netflix team did. Mostly because I think this is one of the few things they actually did right for the series. While your edits are much more contemporary and therefore suit more modern tastes (well done by the way, you did a terrific job!). The original Cowboy Bebop had a lot of influences. One of which were the fight scenes of 1970's blaxploitation and old school 'kung fu' movies (also just out of interest, Spike's fighting style is based off Bruce Lee). Fighting scenes from back then were purposefully over-dramatic with long pauses and over-exagerated poses/ reactions. It was as much about the fight as what each individual character was thinking, feeling and experiencing during said fight. (The music choice of Cowboy Bebop also reflects music choices of those old movies too) :)

Wooow losted dynamic is back. THX

0:30 I just love that

Gj man! Ya I felt the same thing as you - the pacing in the Cowboy Bebop fight scenes was too slow which is really due to poor editing. I think movies like the Bourne films and John Wick have conditioned us to expect really fast-paced, dynamic action scenes (here's a fun exercise: go back and watch the fight scenes from the first Matrix film. Back then they were groundbreaking, but now they feel SO slow.)

This is definitely an improvement, but it unfortunately comes with the caveat of being the polishing of an unrefined product. Choreography that isn't so amazing can't be fixed by good editing. That being said, this is still some good editing!

I imagine they slowed the fight down to fit the soundtrack, which does everything a disservice. They could have easily had more action instead of more pauses!

Damn you'd think John Cho wasn't 50 in the edit XD

What's funny was this scene wasn't really bad, but then I realized it was ripped off from the gas station scene in the Cowboy Bebop movie which was done better.

This is SO much better. Almost makes me think I'd be a good show.

Dealt with about everything wrong with the scene without being able to just go in and redirect it. I felt they did slightly better as time went on because this first episode took me 3 times of going back to finish it.

so the actual problem with that scene is the editing…. interesting! I enjoyed a lot this edit :)

Your edit is so much better

Less is more. Netflix: But I need more content and to stretch it out as much as possible!

Keep the edits coming friend

Oh this was fun! Great work!

What you did was essentially edit it in Chinese kung-fu movie way. Americans tend to like to show how the punch was thrown while Chinese films (i.e. Jackie Chan films) only show the hits, hence why it feels smoother. The former looked better in Cowboy Bebop because they were moving faster than typical humans do. Not to mention being animated means the people have full control of how fluid the "bodies" are with each movement, so we only really get to see blurs of the body parts in the anime while in this Live Action, we get to see the entire human leg or arm with each kick or punch. Hence, the LA seems slower.

Dude that was great. You need to edit the entire series to remove all the reductive characters, stupid quips and pretty much all of Gren and Vicious - fix the Asimov, Maria Murdock, Le Fou, Udai Taxim and Whitney Haggis storylines and just mute Faye for the entire thing and I'd totally watch that. You would probably end up with about 45mins of tight footage at the end but at least it would be tolerable to watch!

It's better, but no amount of editing in the world could make that turd good. I salute your effort though.

3:20 this is the best part of the edit. The only time I've seen a man hit a woman and it didn't feel cringe.

Theres no need to say no disrespect to them they disrespected the source material the moment they thought the creator of the anime was inferior in comparison to them

edit is definitely better but with the edit i feel like i blink and its a new camera angle. pretty sure if you were on the editing team youd have more to work with.

Less is more. Excellent work.

could do that bathroom sence too because this one that one are my favorite

You fixed it!!!

As it should have been edited..me: since 1974

you made it better by cutting dialog xD

Pretty good, I think the source material isn't so good, so even edited it's odd to follow

Glad Yoko Kanno came back. Made a guitar cover video for the ending theme, The Real Folk Blues

What's the title of the background music? :00

lakeith stanfield wouldve made a better spike spiegal imo. he has the same build and is a natural at being effortlessly cool. also closer in age to spike

maybe i should edit the whole series into one film but actaully make it good and atleast decent to watch

nice! now we just need to fix the writing, casting, tone, and cinematography and we might have a halfway decent adaptation!

Overall the original is still better considering it's a 45 minute episode. It's called pacing for a reason. Nice edit tho!

2:03 is extremely upsetting to me lol, wtf is the DP and editor thinking to continue the action viewed 1) over the shoulder from 2) across the entire bar and 3) telephoto at that, all to show the stabbed guy isn't dead yet lmao, wtf. People really don't understand the slop Netflix, Marvel, Disney, Amazon are shoving down their throats when film and movies used to have it SO GOOD.

This is definitely better but I don't know anything about editing, so aside from where you took out some dialogue and a shitty gag, I can't really articulate what's different- and I really want to understand this. Can anybody break this down for a layman to understand?

This live action could be the worst they ever made OG bebop is amazing and I love it a lot but not bad

The ony problem with this version of cowboy bebop is it should've never had a netflix adaptation, cus wtf is the actor choice 💀💀

Thanks you for removing the boob grab scene, that was utterly unfunny. 0:43 This scene feels as if the directors is a fake jackie chan fan.

Yeah your edit is definitely better.

I love your one, but don’t get me wrong I still like previous version

Better editing could have saved this show. That pause after the "wondered when you'd show up" felt like ages, i would pay to see the whole series re-edited.

Yes this is much better, way less cringe.

Your version is a 100 times better.

I don't really understand the last edit with the groping. It's kind of nonsensical. Other than that, it's fine.

Every scene in this shit shot basically screams "I'm totally not a movie set!" the design is so godawful bad and not immersive wtf

Jeez even WITH the edit, the moment where the music goes quiet and it becomes a horror movie for 5 seconds while the bad guy looks under the table feels stupidly long. I can see what they were going for - where the action slows down for a few beats - it CAN be done effectively - it’s just all wrong here.

It still looks like shit but now it's shiny shit great job my friend

I feel the show was missing ed

Yeah I love that you removed the idiotic breast touching moment. In a high octane fight like this, you're not going to stupidly stop and care about the sex of your attacker when they are seconds from killing you. It was a dumb nonsensical joke that the original anime would never have made during these moments. It's stuff like that which turns me off from watching western adaptions of great anime. Also usually it's just badly done in general like the Death note one or Fullmetal Alchemist. It often comes off as super cheesy. I still need to watch half of the Cowbop anime but the opening scene in the first episode is a masterpiece where the rose falls onto the ground and the red color deepens as the juxtaposed cuts of Spike fighting and getting bloodier plays in between, symbolizing the severity. The tone is completely different for the first episode of the live action version. It's rather sad these creators couldn't see the value of the counter-part. I love that the anime episode opens in the slower pace and focuses on the silent serenity of space and the lifestyle on board the ship. You still get the action later on but these opening scenes establish the western tone. Space can be compared to the open west in the sense of a more carefree lifestyle to explore and venture out into the open adventure. There's free enterprise and opportunities to be chased. The western style music doesn't just set the tone but also helps paint that picture.

Too bad you couldn’t fix the horrible script and writing and camera shots and angles lol. Cause then it would be worth a shot.. good job btw with ur edit.

damn shame this show's bad outweighed the good glaring issue was how annoying Faye was, yeah Faye was always annoying, but she wasn't like Noisy annoying. She was in the way annoying. Plus all the Vicious side stories no one cared about. damn shame really. damn shame. really loved Jett and Spike, ehhh somewhere in the middle with Faye cause I have a crush on the actress.

right, so u made it faster, more realistic, got rid of the sitcom bullshit

I doint much sdfiferen I AHBE SEE NTHE ROIGNIL

Like a lot of people said, it does indeed improve the pace, and gives more energy to the fight but we do lose something when the scene is edited down. We understand what is happening because we've seen the show and because we've seen the original edit before that last clip, but without that, we quickly lose where everything is in the scene. In the original edit, the action is much slower (still don't know why they kept tht awkward exchange between Jet and Spike, it just kills the flow) but we clearly understand where everyone and everything is in the scene. In my opinion, there's definitely an issue with the editing but also with the way they filmed some (not all) of the fight scenes in the show. A good example would be the "lost session" trailer they filmed especially to promote the show. They cleverly played with the format, the flow of the characters, dialogues and camera mouvements. I don't get why they didn't keep some of that energy in the show.

So basically, you just reduced it to the seizure-inducing modern trope of rapid jump-cuts to where it's almost impossible to distinguish what's happening...

I C no difference :\

>"also, no disrespect meant towards the creative team" What? Why not? They're the ones who produced this flaming turd?

I mean it’s still bad Better than the original yes but this fall to the trope of extreme jumpcuts That’s mainly due to the fault that the original fight choreography is terrible Stiff, awkward and slow hits. It’s like they barely rehearsed

You changed like 3 scenes, and now you think it's better? Even more of a trash, than original.. What you trying to achive by cutting 0:52 to 1:04? Was there any reason why you think such abruptive scene change could be seen as something better? Now the 1:34 does make sense to make it less cheesy. But then again what was the point to change 1:50 scene if it was a subtle joke. In any case, no edits will save this trash.

The only good thing about the original was Jet's accidental grope. The timing of the joke was well done and his reaction was honestly pretty true to the character. Otherwise, your edit was flat out superior.

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the AK's have no recoil? And that their muzzle flash looks like Nintendo 64 graphics? They should have at least pretended the guns had some weight 🙄

No disrespect to the creative team? WTH are you talking about. Their editing sucks. Its like they hold on every shot for a whole second more than they need to like they are waiting for the director to yell cut. It is so awkward.

not a good edit bro