Johnny Mnemonic
Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 cyberpunk action film directed by Robert Longo in his feature directorial debut. William Gibson, who wrote the 1981 short story, wrote the screenplay. The film, set in 2021, portrays a dystopian future wracked by a tech-induced plague, awash with conspiracies, and dominated by megacorporations and organized crime. Keanu Reeves plays Johnny, a data courier with an overloaded brain implant designed to securely store confidential information. Takeshi Kitano portrays a Yakuza affiliated with a megacorporation attempting to suppress the data; he hires a psychopathic assassin played by Dolph Lundgren to do so. Ice-T and Dina Meyer co-star as Johnny's allies, a freedom fighter and a bodyguard, respectively.
Plot
In 2021, society is driven by a virtual Internet, which has created a degenerate effect called "nerve attenuation syndrome" or NAS. Megacorporations control much of the world, intensifying the class hostility already created by NAS.
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| author | William Gibson |
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| award | Golden Screen Award |
| contentLocation | New Jersey |
| director | Robert Longo |
| editor | Ronald Sanders |
| events | telepresence |
| genre | action crime science fiction |
| keywords | artificial intelligence attack behead beijing brain damage change of heart cure doctor who kill medical charity navy pirate broadcast pirate broadcasts rescue street preacher united states navy |
| musicBy | Brad Fiedel Mychael Danna |
| nomination | Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor |
| producer | Don Carmody |
| productionCompany | AFI Catalog of Feature Films |
| publisher | Alliance Communications |
| recordedAt | Montreal Toronto |
| theme | chase cyberpunk dystopian science fiction action |