Johnny Mnemonic is a movie directed by Robert Longo in 1995 and based on the book of the same name by William Gibson, first published in 1981. The movie features Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Ice-T, Takeshi Kitano, Dolph Lundgren, Udo Kier, and others.
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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
Source: IMDb
Movie
Johnny Mnemonic
Director: Robert Longo
Country: Canada
Year: 1995
Length: 1h43m
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Year
1981
Pages
160
Book Rate
7.54
S: Goodreads
Book
Johnny Mnemonic
Author: William Gibson
Country: USA
First published in: 1981
Length: 160 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Burning Chrome
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“I think of a book and a movie as two separate things. I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.”
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