It's that wit that propels a great deal of the surface pleasure of Cowboy Bebop with the archetype of the gangly American cowboy prophet / warrior, one referenced in a mid-film drive - in movie of High Noon attended by
Jet and lent a certain degree of poignancy by the slow understanding that the picture (and the series that spawned it) is in love with nostalgia for a
post-war age that, particularly for the Japanese, was fraught with ambiguity, shame, and tragedy.