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* DataDriveMacGuffin: The titular Johnny is a data courier who carries gigabytes of data in his head in a world where the evil mega-corp [=PharmaKom=] monitors all network traffic. Johnny's brain is effectively [[NeuroVault a wetware hard drive]] that's holding the cure to a neural plague. [=PharmaKom=] has a monopoly on the expensive (read: highly profitable) treatment, so they dispatch killer mooks to intercept Johnny before he can download the data to his client.
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* AlternateMonochromeVersion: The film saw an alternate black-and-white recut in 2022 in the form of the ''Johnny Mnemonic: In Black and White'' Blu-Ray. The original film was originally intended by director Robert Longo to be filmed in black-and-white (a tribute to classic sci-fi cinema like ''Film/{{Alphaville}}'' and ''Film/LaJetee''), and this recut is a version Longo describes as being closer to his original vision.
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* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: Parodied. Caught in the wrong room by armed thugs, Johnny hefts his satchel over his shoulder and innocently asks, ''"double cheese, anchovies?"''
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* PredatoryBigPharma: The MegaCorp PharmaKom produces a treatment for the disease NAS (Nerve Attenuation Syndrome) that earns it a great deal of money. During the course of the film, it tries to violently suppress a permanent cure for NAS that would reduce the number of customers for the treatment and its profits.
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** Paralon-B, one of the few [[spoiler:publicly available]] treatments for NAS, is only available from [=PharmaKom=] at "Two grand per clinical unit."
*** Most metaphorically suggested where evidence of Jane's cybernetic implants are presented as resembling track marks, like a needle drug addict would have. Jane also suffers from NAS and goes through a form of "withdrawal" when she doesn't receive the drug treatments that she needs.
*** Most metaphorically suggested where evidence of Jane's cybernetic implants are presented as resembling track marks, like a needle drug addict would have. Jane also suffers from NAS and goes through a form of "withdrawal" when she doesn't receive the drug treatments that she needs.
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** Paralon-B, one of the few [[spoiler:publicly available]] treatments for NAS, is only available from [=PharmaKom=] at "Two grand per clinical unit."
***" Most metaphorically suggested where evidence of Jane's cybernetic implants are presented as resembling track marks, like a needle drug addict would have. Jane also suffers from NAS and goes through a form of "withdrawal" when she doesn't receive the drug treatments that she needs.
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