The Real Folk Blues
Many of you are thinking Cowboy Bebop, which is good. A few of you may have identified "The Real Folk Blues" as the ending theme for the show, which is also good. That's not exactly what I'm going to talk about.
A long time ago (probably 3+ years ago, which I can't believe), I thought of a weird idea, which, when dealing with me, can be edited down to the word idea. Many fictional works are reversions, reinterpretations, or reinspired versions of something that already exists. I had this idea around the time O Brother, Where Art Thou was out, and that was an alternate take on The Odessey.
"What if," I thought, "Cowboy Bebop could be reinterpreted as something totally different?"
Don't get ahead of me on this. I'm not trying to downplay Bebop, nor am I trying to say it can be easily defined or put into a simple outline. Far from it.
The project I thought of would be a serial novel (novel built out of almost short story parts, but each advances the story) that would be on a more modern timeframe, somewhere around 2010-2015. Space travel would not be involved, but it could easily be science fiction. This work would be known as The Real Folk Blues in direct homage of Cowboy Bebop.
Of course, being entirely predictable, The Real Folk Blues involves Commander, who stands in for Spike Spiegel. In order for this to work, I really have to push the ensemble card, so the role of main character will equally be shared with a former detective by the name of Fred Nance. The sultry female will be portrayed by another iteration of The Tantrum. The weird computer savant kid will be BIG (Beautiful Intelligent George), who's probably the closest to the Bebop equivalent. Finally, the biggest change in the main cast is Emulator. There might be two people (Dan and someone I've forgotten) who have read or heard about this character before. He's basically a guy with computer ports in his head/neck, allowing him to access and download information directly from computers.
The other big change is that the overall plot will have nothing to do with actual organized crime and everything to do with demons and etherial beings.
I bring it up because the next thing I'm going to start on might be a detective story set a few months back featuring Detective Fred Nance. I'm setting it a few months back because I had a weird idea recently about a possible story built around some arcane artifact being stored in New Orleans. This artifact is released when the hurricanes hit, causing craziness to occur. Which is why Fred Nance is going to originally be from New Orleans.
Thoughts? Comments? Reasons why I'm totally insane or stupid for trying to do something like The Real Folk Blues?
A long time ago (probably 3+ years ago, which I can't believe), I thought of a weird idea, which, when dealing with me, can be edited down to the word idea. Many fictional works are reversions, reinterpretations, or reinspired versions of something that already exists. I had this idea around the time O Brother, Where Art Thou was out, and that was an alternate take on The Odessey.
"What if," I thought, "Cowboy Bebop could be reinterpreted as something totally different?"
Don't get ahead of me on this. I'm not trying to downplay Bebop, nor am I trying to say it can be easily defined or put into a simple outline. Far from it.
The project I thought of would be a serial novel (novel built out of almost short story parts, but each advances the story) that would be on a more modern timeframe, somewhere around 2010-2015. Space travel would not be involved, but it could easily be science fiction. This work would be known as The Real Folk Blues in direct homage of Cowboy Bebop.
Of course, being entirely predictable, The Real Folk Blues involves Commander, who stands in for Spike Spiegel. In order for this to work, I really have to push the ensemble card, so the role of main character will equally be shared with a former detective by the name of Fred Nance. The sultry female will be portrayed by another iteration of The Tantrum. The weird computer savant kid will be BIG (Beautiful Intelligent George), who's probably the closest to the Bebop equivalent. Finally, the biggest change in the main cast is Emulator. There might be two people (Dan and someone I've forgotten) who have read or heard about this character before. He's basically a guy with computer ports in his head/neck, allowing him to access and download information directly from computers.
The other big change is that the overall plot will have nothing to do with actual organized crime and everything to do with demons and etherial beings.
I bring it up because the next thing I'm going to start on might be a detective story set a few months back featuring Detective Fred Nance. I'm setting it a few months back because I had a weird idea recently about a possible story built around some arcane artifact being stored in New Orleans. This artifact is released when the hurricanes hit, causing craziness to occur. Which is why Fred Nance is going to originally be from New Orleans.
Thoughts? Comments? Reasons why I'm totally insane or stupid for trying to do something like The Real Folk Blues?
posted by LEN! at 12:09 AM
1 Comments:
YO
I support you.
If you want help I can listen.
I was thinking about it too.
Usually an idea is repackaged
because they know that it will
sell and that makes it safe.
Cowboy Bebop isn't a Genre, it is
a crossing of two Genre's the
Space Opera and the Western.
Maybe you should write with those
Genres before developing a
crossover.
Anyway, I think it's cool. I
wonder what Cowboy Bebop is based
off of? No Idea is one hundred percent original anyway. Ideas are just practical knowledge, and knowledge is just a fact or truth, you can't ever really know anything without some observation be it logic or the senses. So essentially no idea is original, it always has some source.
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