Johnny Mnemonic is a movie novelization written by Terry Bisson in 1995 and based on the movie of the same name, directed by Robert Longo in 1995. The movie features Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Ice-T, Takeshi Kitano, Dolph Lundgren, Udo Kier, and others.
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Book by William Gibson
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Storyline
In 2021, society is deeply engaged in a virtual Internet, which has a degenerative effect referred to as nerve attenuation syndrome, or NAS. Johnny is a mnemonic courier with a data storage device implanted in his brain, allowing him to discreetly carry information too sensitive to transfer across the Net, the virtual-reality equivalent of the Internet.
Movie vs Book
Year
1995
Minutes
103
Movie Rate
5.70
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Movie
Johnny Mnemonic
Director: Robert Longo
Country: Canada
Year: 1995
Length: 1h43m
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Year
1995
Pages
246
Book Rate
7.56
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Book
Johnny Mnemonic
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“The movie is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
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“I had to unlearn a lot of novelistic stuff to do a screenplay.”
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