Johnny Mnemonic (film)
- Keanu Reeves: Johnny Mnemonic
- Dina Meyer: Jane
- Ice-T: J -Bone
- Takeshi Kitano: Takahashi
- Dennis Akayama: Shinji
- Dolph Lundgren: Staßenprediger
- Henry Rollins: Spider
- Barbara Sukowa: Anna Kalman
- Udo Kier: Ralfi
- Tracy Tweed: Pretty
- Falconer Abraham: Yomamma
- Don Francks: Hooky
Networked - Johnny Mnemonic is a film of the American director Robert Longo from the year 1995 action film based on the science fiction sub-genre cyberpunk calculated short story The mnemonic Johnny by William Gibson and was developed by the film studios Alliance Communications Corporation, Cinevision. and TriStar Pictures produced. The hitherto only other film adaptation of a work of William Gibson 's New Rose Hotel.
Action
In 2027, wants Johnny ( Keanu Reeves ), who works as a mnemonic courier, get out of his business and regain his full memory. During this period, certain information coveted trade and contraband. Therefore, there are couriers who can repurpose a part of their brain to a data store, to transmit valuable data safe, but loses one part of his memories. While an implant is to have very low, the surgeon can pay for implant removal expensive to earn money at the shops mnemonic couriers. Johnny gets a job that is too big for his memory. Then he suffers from severe flashbacks of his childhood, he has sacrificed for the store. In order not to die from the overload of his brain, he must have discharged from his brain the data within 24 hours. The data in Johnny's head allow for the manufacture of a medicament for NAS - Nerve Attenuation Syndrome, a disease from which half the world's population suffers from the way they handled electronics and cybernetics. This knowledge will the evolving group keep to themselves, since the expulsion of the suppression medicine significantly more lucrative for him than that of the remedy, and is therefore a contract killer that will stop Johnny.
Johnny, however, of an underground movement, the low- Tecs - the anti-corporate fight their oppression and against the high - tech support in his fight. Through a cybernetically modified dolphin, which the Navy has retired, Johnny can be freed from its memory content that is broadcast through the Cracker abilities of dolphin in all TV channels and the Internet as the final mission of the low- Tecs.
Synchronization
Reception
After the overwhelming success of Gibson's cult novel Neuromancer was a film adaptation of the same in SF circles since 1984, impatiently expected, although there were warnings everywhere that Gibson's prose would not work as a movie. Regularly appeared rumors about started shooting or screenplays. In 1995, one of the alleged Neuromancer adaptations actually turned out to be a film adaptation of the earlier short story Johnny Mnemonic. (Another emerged later as a matrix. Both films Keanu Reeves plays the main role. ) This Gibson had to play the most important elements of his Sprawl world in which many of his early novels and short stories developed. However, only the characters and settings were used for the film, history and motives of the actors were completely changed.
According devastating fell from the judgment of many critics: Kenner Gibsons works criticized the dropping of the original, complex plot in favor of a more straight forward, hollywood compatible action plots. Furthermore criticized the naive dialogues and the rather lackluster game the main character. After all, the film is set, visually impressive, and can serve as an introduction to a closer examination of Gibson's novels.
Reviews
" For the first time a short story by William Gibson 's cyberpunk inventor was adapted for the screen. Gibson himself wrote the screenplay, as a director of the New York conceptual artist Robert Longo was hired. The results are convincing by complex equipment and clever special effects, which are the sci-fi setting quite fair. "
" An eclectic, passages as hard Thriller in cyberspace ambience with an unusual occupation, an artist - director and impressive special effects. Provided from bits and pieces of the genre and with one-dimensional B-movie drama, but exciting and original in its mixture again. "
Awards
Producer Don Carmody won the 1996 Genie Award, the film was nominated in two other categories for the same price. Keanu Reeves was nominated in 1996 for the Golden Raspberry.
More
The term mnemonic comes from the Greek and can with a good memory having to be translated. Instructions of a computer processor ( assembly language ) are called mnemonics, because they can be easily memorize as machine instructions.