In the year 2021, the weight of the new technology called the Internet in the society has declined. Mega corporations rule the world, while the public is suffering from mental disorders, known as the “Nervous Etation Syndrome”, which is why they are brought in cyberspace through their addiction.
“Johnny Memonic” was not ahead of its time. It was a total prediction.
The “Johnny Memonic” was a box office failure. But in the subsequent decades, this screenwriter William Gibson (known as a novelist who created cyberpunic gender), director Robert Longo (a visual artist and the first director suddenly in the helm of 30 million blockbuster), and Star Keno Ravis’s unprecedented cooperation.
Together, he developed a dustopian thriller, which was met with a great Shrig at the time, but he has become one of the most ancient films of his time.
Welcome to the city of chaos
“Johnny Memonak” worked as Johnny (no known last name), a “data courier” whose job is to upload high confidential information to his brain using a special implant and then smuggle this data to its destination.
At the beginning of the film, a group of scientists in Beijing rent Johnny for their services. He also warned him that the file is technically huge for his brain. He will die if he cannot supply it in a few days, and already includes a 24 -hour element against the race in a strange story.
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Johnny soon arrived at the “Free City Nevarak”, a town that has gained such a dangerous and lawlessness that the government has overcome groups and corporations. (Considering recent events in the Nevarak, it seems surprisingly accurate in 2025.)
When we settled in the main story, it moves from cyberpunic fantasy to Distopin Helsekap. The film borrows freely from 1981’s “escape from New York”, which is considered a lawless city full of strange characters, where violence rule the most.
Throughout his entire journey, Johnny also joined the Physical Hacking Body Guard, played by Dina Mayor (famous for his role in “Beverly Hills, 90210”), a liberal fighter and a domestic pastor played by Dolph Lundgran. The script can be a feat, but each screen is clearly spending good time and trying its best – with an amazing exception.
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Ravis looks at his head simultaneously and is completely unwanted in having a relationship with the film. Perhaps this problem is his role, which is merely exposed to the chaos around him. At the height of the movie, Johnny made a great speech in which he screamed: “I want to serve the room!” William Gibson was probably trying to make a point about consumerism, but it is difficult to root out the character whose motivations are so pitiful.
So drama … off -screen
Behind the curtains, making “Johnny Memonic” was even more dramatic. In an interview with Wired in 1995, Gibson described the entire experience as a part of a “felt like a medieval military campaign.”
Even making a movie was an extraordinary challenge. Gibson and Longo actually imagined a low -budget project that could find the growing popularity of the Internet in 1995 through the lens of Cyberpank Distopia in 1995. But the studios were not interested in the arthouse film. They wanted a blockbuster.
“We went in and asked for half a million, and they laughed,” Gibson told the wired. “It wasn’t until we started to ask for a lot that they started taking it seriously.”
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He eventually settled on a huge budget, but the tent pool came with the usual wires associated with the film. Sony, which provided the film’s finances after the previous film “Speed”, added more than that. On one occasion, he also pressured Gibson to include scenes with buses and blasts in an attempt to regenerate the “speed” success. Considering all this intervention, this is a miracle “Johnny Memonic”.
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Although it can be a very incomplete film, it is impossible to ignore the legacy “Johnny Memonic” legacy. The Wachvskies used their own reflection of the Internet as part of their pitch for “The Matrix”, which took the dangers of these ideas and technology (and Keno Rios) of life in cyberspace and turned them into a better thing: a real good movie.
“Johnny Memonic is not a good movie.” Whether it’s “very bad it is a good” area or just “so bad” ready for debate. Nevertheless, this strange cyberpank is able to re -see the epic, which took a look at the Internet in 1995 and predicted that this newborn technology will dominate our entire lives in just a few decades – and waste.
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