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“One more run, Johnny…”
“SNATCH BACK YOUR BRAIN, ZOMBIE!!! SNATCH IT BACK AND HOLD IT!!!”
“Hit me!”
“What’s going on, Ralphie? This sounds like a blown deal, man!”
“I WANT to get online… I NEED a computer!!!”
“Initiate the virus!”
“I could crash you from here, man! Wipe out your entire fucking board!”
“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…”
With:
- a young Keanu Reeves in his underwear,
- Ice-T,
- Henry Rollins,
- Dina Meyer
- Dolph Lundgren,
- and “Beat” Takeshi Kitano.
Screenplay by William Gibson
Featuring Turkish subtitles, to evade copyright strikes from the corporate bots that are continually prowling cyberspace! Jack in to your portable network device, and stream this data straight to your in-skull neural network! …if you have the memory for it…
Thanks for all this. I remember reading it before, but I had forgotten how big of a train wreck the production has been. Longo and Gibson have been derailed at all times, they even were handed Lundgren over without really knowing what to do with him!
I’ve read that the black and white version is better and I might check it out, but the acting won’t change, so I’m not really that confident about it.
Yeah, Robert Longo is principally an artist (drawing, background in sculpture) who did a couple music videos. He probably would have made a great indie film but there was no way he had the “pull” to hold on to his and Gibson’s vision against the studio’s wishes. This could have been a decent blockbuster-style movie in the Matrix / Blade Runner vein, in the hands of a director with those skills who wanted it that way. This is a case study: the studio should have either let Longo and GIbson do their art film for a smaller budget (my preference!) or they should have just given it to a new director.
It’ll be interesting to see what’s possible with the next generation of AI video editing tools. With the original sources, and enough compute power, they’ll probably be able to edit the acting too.