Johnny Mnemonic rocks (NP)

[Joe Allonby]

Molly Razorgirl is the inspiration for a lot of the now required action
asskicker woman characters.

On 11/9/06, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:
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> I really don't understand why JM wasn't more widely appreciated.
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> the lone IMDB comment has this "JM is like Blade Runner's fat, slutty
> sister"
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> That's so wrong!  Just a few of the great things about it:
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> 1) corporate copyright-patent enforced to the detriment of the populace
> 2) corporation's ideals embodied in the AI of its founder (the lady
> yelling "Takahashi" - didn't anybody else get goosebumps from that?) which
> the caretaker management suppresses while involving itself ever more heavily
> with Yakuza and acting in disobedience to Drucker's principles of management
> (organizations that exist to supply a service people need will prosper;
> organizations that exist only to accumulate profit will not)
> 3) reversal of traditional sex roles - walking wounded macho lady
> bodyguard, bursting thru the ceiling to protect Johnny in his vulnerable
> state
> 4) the big idea: information overload and how to handle it (open source
> over secrecy, worldwide collaboration) -- contained in the little idea (too
> much info in the courier's wetware)
> 5) an intro to the living network idea that blossomed in Neuromancer
> 6) man and dolphin co-operating
> 7) the amok preacher as embodiment of the worst crusading Christian right
> (all smite, no mercy)
> 8) eye-pleasers at every turn: Henry Rollins describing NAS;
> Ice-T's  wardrobe; Keanu's mid-air fight scene ("without the head, You're
> Fucked!"); great locations (I want to stay in that Tokyo hotel sometime);
> the fishtank and the TV-bank; data gloves...
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> I suppose I ought to shut up before I get started on "Fifth
> Element"...("Lilu Dallas multipass") but at least somebody on IMDB did it
> justice:
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> "I call the man supremely civilized whose idea of science fiction springs
> from Flash Gordon by way of The Magic Christian. Maslin of the New York
> Times inexplicably considers Besson "his nation's worst nightmare," and
> Ebert on the whole agrees that this is a terrible infant. On the contrary,
> The Fifth Element is a first and necessary work to regenerate the fled
> quintessence in Star Wars, namely art."
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