#johnny mnemonic

[cringewillie]

Johnny Pneumonia Starring Keanu Wheeze

[scipunk]

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

[prokopetz]

Whatever else you can say about Johnny Mnemonic, you have to give it credit for establishing "the best hacker in town is a dolphin, and no, that's not some weird Canadian drug culture slang, we mean a literal dolphin" as a recurring trope in the cyberpunk genre.

[reckless-drivers-pack]

just finished watching Johnny Mnemonic (1995) last night there was an electronic warfare dolphin named Jones

so you see what kind of situation i was put in. as an artist with some Favorite Storyteller Characters. where i immediately had to go sketch the meeting point of that, and Jones-from-our-WoD-game

[textsfromkeanuspawn]

#453 | Johnny | Johnny Mnemonic

[specialagentartemis]

the racial politics of Johnny Mnemonic are so fascinatingly 90s though. Every Asian character (two main, many minor) is high-tech, a scientist or businessman, wearing a suit and working for the Yakuza or a pharmaceutical corporation and fight with swords or laser garrottes; every Black character (one main, a few minor) is a LoTek, part of a countercultural underground hacker group opposing corporate control, who wear leather and elaborate face makeup, live in a grimy urban jury-rigged encampment on a bridge, and fight with crossbows. Johnny, our protagonist, is mixed-race and can pass for white or Asian as needed, initially an information courier for Chinese and Japanese businessmen but ends up with the LoTeks, and the other white characters get to break out of this slick corporate Asian vs. grungy fight-the-system Black dichotomy: his bodyguard Jane who’s a hot girl with done-on-the-cheap bodymods and wicked knife-throwing skills, the street doctor Spider who leads up a public free medical response unit treating a disease that comes from Too Much Technology eating your brain or something, the AI brain upload of the founder of the pharmaceutical corporation, and an insane transhumanist street preacher who assassinates people with a big bowie knife shaped like a crucifix. Jane is grungy, AI lady is corporate, Spider is grungy but noble, and street preacher is there because the studio told them they needed to cast Dolph Lundgren as something.

It made me go, damn yeah William Gibson sure wrote this huh (he did, apparently)

[specialagentartemis]

Is Johnny Mnemonic (1995) good? No. But is everyone way too mean about it? Yes because it's great

[zoeweee]

Johnny Mnemonic is so awesome.