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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

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Trivia:

In the scene where all the "old" airplanes take off, you can see an old WW2 biplane which the three old geezers fly. The airplane's name is Swordfish, which is the same name as Spike's ship. The biplane was crucial in the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck, an event which the three geezers also reminisce about.

The mysterious Rasheed is based on the Moroccan guide who accompanied the movie-staff while they were scouting locations.

Delayed two years in the U.S., due to its parallels to 9/11 events.

In the halloween parade you can see Cowboy Andy... I mean Samurai Musashi make a cameo while on a horse. 

While there are not as many obvious Lupin references as the tv show, it should be noted that Elektra wears the red jacket prominent in the second series, the freeway scene borrows elements from ep. 155, the background music becomes Lupinesque when Spike fights Elektra with a janitor's mop(the outfit also worn in one of the first series episodes), and Vincent is dressed like Jigen.

In the shots showing the T-shirt salesman, the T-shirt in the very lower left says "Bones", which is the production studio for the movie.

The character Vincent enters a train station witch exists in real live. On the left side, the red logo DB for "Deutsche Bahn" (german railway company) is visible. "Sommerfest im Bohnhof Alexanderplatz" reference to the Alexanderplatz train station in Berlin. It serves normal trains in real live, so the Suspension train is probably inspired by the Wuppertal Suspension Railway.

The arcade Faye confronts Lee Sampson in appears to be related to the carnival seen in Episode #20 Pierrot le Fou.

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