–==J 0 H N N Y M N 3 M 0 N 1 C==–
“One more run, Johnny…”
“SNATCH BACK YOUR BRAIN, ZOMBIE!!! SNATCH IT BACK AND HOLD IT!!!”
“Hit me!”
“What’s going on, Ralphie? This sounds like a blown deal, man!”
“I WANT to get online… I NEED a computer!!!”
“Initiate the virus!”
“I could crash you from here, man! Wipe out your entire fucking board!”
“Information overload! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves! Technological fucking civilization! But we still have all this shit. Because we can’t live without it…”
With:
- a young Keanu Reeves in his underwear,
- Ice-T,
- Henry Rollins,
- Dina Meyer
- Dolph Lundgren,
- and “Beat” Takeshi Kitano.
Screenplay by William Gibson
Featuring Turkish subtitles, to evade copyright strikes from the corporate bots that are continually prowling cyberspace! Jack in to your portable network device, and stream this data straight to your in-skull neural network! …if you have the memory for it…
I watched this again recently after finally reading the short-story it’s based on. Even with the author writing the screenplay, it doesn’t stand up to the original. It’s a smaller story, but that brings the focus on these great characters, especially Molly (aka Jane from the movie). The movie really doesn’t do her character justice. Her climactic fight scene at the end really stands out.
I’d encourage anybody to track down William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” or “Burning Chrome” (the collection of stories Johnny Mnemonic comes from) if you haven’t read them already.
Yeah the wikipedia page talks about how the Gibson and the director wanted to make a small-budget ironic art film, but the studio wanted to make a blockbuster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(film)
Just read that in the x-post in another community. That all makes sense, and was missed opportunity.