If you listen to the original theme song, it's much more clearly a pastiche of Elvis' song (the guitars are much heavier) The American version done by Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass is, as the name implies, much heavier on the brass (and more "cartoony")
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The Wachowski movie definitely plays with this, like it's in many ways an extremely American movie and American story and yet in many other ways it's this deliberately bizarre setting where you're not sure what country they're actually in
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Dunno...Grew up watching it before school when I was of 6-8 years old., unaware of its provenance. Before people said “Japanimation” & years before people referred to it as “anime.” But, for me & at the time, it was “serous business” devoid of its source culture.
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my fave episode/bad guys was the MOTORCYCLE APACHES... I haven’t seen it since I was 6yrs. old, but my recollection is intact ! My Saturdays were not complete w/out
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