RE:WIRED 2021: André Nemec on Cowboy Bebop’s Vibe

And the Netflix show, it's, it's funny,

there's ham sandwiches, there's business casual, you know,

there's Playboy magazine and of course there's spaceships

and bio terrorism and futuristic drugs.

And I'd love to hear from you, like what was,

what were some of the threads that you like wove through to

create not necessarily consistency,

but coherency in the cowboy bebop world?

Well,

what was immediately apparent from the anime is that it's a,

not a dystopian picture of the future,

despite a cataclysmic world,

a planet ending event that sends us to colonize space,

but it's not dystopian.

In fact, it's multicultural.

And in that multiculturalism,

we rebuild our society in the nostalgia of the world that we

came from.

And I think that that was something that was very important

to capture you talk about sort of the,

the retro tech and the vibe and the ham sandwiches.

I do believe that in our future,

if we found ourselves in this place,

we would bring ham sandwiches with us to outer space.

Like it is just something that we want because we like the

comforts of knowing what is familiar to us.