“Johnny Mnemonic” quotes
(1995)
Title Johnny Mnemonic
Year 1995
Director Robert Longo
Genre Sci-Fi, Crime, Thriller, Action
Year 1995
Director Robert Longo
Genre Sci-Fi, Crime, Thriller, Action
Plot – Johnny is a 35-year-old computer courier. The area of his brain containing his childhood memories has been replaced with a chip, but now he would like to recover his memories. His agent Ralfi convinces him to accept a last assignment in Beijing. Johnny is loaded with an overdose of information and has to download them within 24 hours. Back to USA, Johnny discovers Ralfi has betrayed him. As Takahashi, a local boss, wants to kill him, Johnny is helped by Jane, an aggressive but beautiful samurai. The courier tries in vain to enter a laboratory to access the information, while Takahashi chases him again. Meanwhile Jane gets sick and Spider, a former doctor who operates in secrecy, helps her. Johnny learns Spider is the addressee of the information, which basically are Jane's cure. After Johnny defeats Yazuka, who has reached him from Japan, he can now download the data and retrieve his childhood memories.
All actors – Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Ice-T, Takeshi Kitano, Denis Akiyama, Dolph Lundgren, Henry Rollins, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Tracy Tweed, Falconer Abraham, Don Francks
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“I can carry nearly eighty gigs of data in my head.”
“- Johnny Mnemonic: You can't shoot me.
- Takahashi: Not in the head.”“You see that city over there? That's where I'm supposed to be. Not down here with the dogs, and the garbage, and the fucking last month's newspapers blowing back and forth. I've had it with them, I've had it with you, I've had it with all this - I want room service! I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer, I want a $10,000-a-night...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Johnny Mnemonic: The Black Shakes. What causes it?
- Spider: What causes it? This causes it! This causes it! Information overload! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves. Technological fucking civilization. But we still have all this shit, because we can't live without it.”
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