Talk:Johnny Mnemonic (film)

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Contents 1 Japanese version 2 When Jonny Downloads the info.... 3 Another post modern reference? 4 Regarding the Japanese version differences 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Johnny mnemonic ver1.jpg

[edit] Japanese version

What are the differences in the Japanese version of the movie? I have heard it is a longer/alternate cut, but what scenes exactly are affected? Jordi·✆ 12:42, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I believe WmG has stated that the Japanese editing is close to his vision of what the movie should have been like, while the non-Japanese editing disappointed him.

The original version intended by Robert Longo and William Gibson had score music by a band called Black Rain. All of that was removed by Sony; they insisted on using their own music instead. On the Japanese version, only one Black Rain song supposedly remains.

Also, there were supposed to be more scenes with Street Preacher and Anna Kalmann. William Gibson mentioned a scene with Street Preacher delivering a sermon before a crowd of people. All that was cut, even from the Japanese version. I think the only scenes that remain are some extra scenes of Takahashi. The movie is a garbled mess, because of all the plot and dialogue that Sony cut out of it.

William Gibson also wrote how Sony excised the humor from the movie. We will probably never see the version the creators shot and intended, because of Sony's meddling.

[edit] When Jonny Downloads the info....

He goes into the restroom and does a breathing excersise.....

what is that breathing excersie?

Tai Chi??

[edit] Another post modern reference?

Anyone out there have a copy of 2001? The scene where JM goes thru customs and the computer scans him looks like the physical interface to HAL out of 2001? I'd like to compare it but I don't at the moment have access to a copy the movie.

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[edit] Regarding the Japanese version differences

(this list is not complete)

I can confirm the following as I saw the movie 3 times in Japan - basically the changes as a whole make the film darker and grittier.

(1) The start is different. The music is Stabbing Westward's explosive slow building (heavy drums) and then suddenly thunderous "Lost" from their 1994 "Ungod" album

(2) The start also has far far less beginning narrative text.

(3) the ending does not have the happy children's party with balloons ending in which Johnny gets his childhood memories back. That part simply is not in the Japanese version at all and there is no replacement scene - you are left unknowing what happens to Johnny next and there is no expectation he will get his memories back. It simply is not part of the movie.

- by the way points (2) and (3) are similar to differences between Bladerunner's theatrical release and the director's cut version.

From my memory but unconfirmed

(4) the Takeshi Kitano scenes in the US version when he first talks to "Shinji" (at his "office") and the last scene where Takeshi talks to Johnny before dying surprised me by their shortness compared to my memory.

Biggergiant 06:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Johnny mnemonic ver1.jpg

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