History Trivia / JohnnyMnemonic

*** Ralfi's bodyguard who [[TapOnTheHead coldcocks]] Johnny in a men's bathroom pointing out afterwards that she hasn't been in a men's bathroom in "years," pointing out that she's trangendered.

*** In an odd way, RealityIsUnrealistic with this. While transmitting encrypted data through meatspace is unrealistic, some employers will transfer ''encryption keys'' physically via certified couriers if the project is classified in some way, either by the company proper, or by whoever contracted the company (ie, a government contract).

* MythologyGag: The bartender seen with the electronic prosthetic arm is a reference to Ratz, a bartender introduced early in William Gibson's ''{{Neuromancer}}''.

** In 1995, 320Gb was massive. By 2010... hard drives of 1 terabyte are under $100. 80 gigs nowadays could fit on a small USB thumb drive.
*** Similarly, the original short story, written in the 80s, involved hundreds of ''megabytes'', before this was upped to gigabytes for the movie adaptation over a decade later.

*** Given that the Internet is still pretty darn slow (the most anyone has access to is 1Gbps,or 128MB/s), it's actually still faster to FedEx a bunch of hard drives, [=DVDs=], etc. than over the net. Harder to snoop on remotely as well.

*** Ralfi's bodyguard who [[TapOnTheHead coldcocks]] Johnny in a men's bathroom pointing out afterwards that he hasn't been in a men's bathroom in "years".

* HeyItsThatGuy: Ice-T, Udo Keir, Henry Rollins, Takeshi Kitano, and Dolph Lundgren all fill out the supporting cast.

* {{Bowdlerized}}: In the Japanese cut, Jane's references to her "grenade" are taken out and replaced with "bottle opener".
* CelebrityParadox: A shot of the back of HenryRollins's head reveals his Music/BlackFlag logo tattoo on the back his neck.

* ShoutOut:
** Before Baldy attempts to execute Johnny, he says, "Time to die"--a reference to ''Film/BladeRunner''.
** There's a brief glimpse of Humphrey Bogart on the television in the hotel room where Johnny uploads the data that gets in his head. Which, I guess, is a reference to Keanu's character ''sort of'' being like Bogart's Rick Blaine from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''. Mind, Rick Blaine is a callous character, remarking that he doesn’t “stick [his] neck out for anyone”, who, by the end of the film, rejoins the good fight against the Nazis.
*** The particular shot of Bogart itself comes from ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', a movie widely remembered for its titular MacGuffin; the scene in which this shot appears in ''Johnny Mnemonic'' exists to establish the narrative's own principal {{MacGuffin}}s.
** The shot where the camera tracks back inside a train station to reveal Johnny surrounded by ''dozens'' of suffering plague victims is a very low-scale version of a similar shot in a railyard from ''GoneWithTheWind''.

*** Given that the Internet is still pretty darn slow (the most anyone has access to is 1Gbps,or 128MB/s), it's actually still faster to FedEx a bunch of hard drives, [=DVDs=], etc. than over the net.

* GeniusBonus: A Japanese character viewable during our first glimpse of "Internet 2021" (found [[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3368/3243330949_131ea8ce1e.jpg directly above the words "Internet 2021"]]) is a character very rarely seen in Japanese language[[note]]It's not even in student dictionaries.[[/note]]. It's pronounced "tou" or "kasa", meaning "hackneyed, cliched" in English. Very likely [[BitingTheHandHumor one of the graphic artists having a chuckle at the expense of the paymaster]].

*** Johnny acquiring his "memory doubler" from a contact in the lobby of the Beijing Hotel. Dialogue between the two suggests that Johnny already knew before he got to the hotel room that even with the memory doubler his storage capacity would not be adequate for the job he signed on for.

** When Spider attempts to run "decryption codes" for Johnny's implant, and the camera captures this scene by circling around all the actors, the camera casts a shadow on actors and scenery whenever it passes in front of any of lighting rigs (which are also visible) that illuminate the set.

** When Spider attempts to run "decryption codes" for Johnny's implant, and the camera captures this scene by circling around all the actors, the camera casts a shadow on actors and scenery whenever it passes in front of any of lighting rigs (which are also visible) to illuminate the set.

* {{Bloopers}}:

*** An additional lecture from AI woman, speaking to Takahashi; she appears with long, curly, blonde hair that the character is never seen having in any of her other scenes. In the Japanese cut, this scene is the character's first appearance.

* {{Deleted Scene}}s: The Japanese release is roughly seven minutes longer than the American/International release. Changes include extended sequences, alternate takes/dialogue used for existing scenes, a different OpeningScroll, and a different musical score and soundtrack mix. Scenes '''NOT''' in the American/International release include:
** Johnny acquiring his "memory doubler" from a contact in the lobby of the Beijing Hotel. Dialogue between the two suggests that Johnny already knew before he got to the hotel room that even with the memory doubler his storage capacity would not be adequate for the job he signed on for.
** Ralfi's bodyguard who [[TapOnTheHead coldcocks]] Johnny in a men's bathroom pointing out afterwards that he hasn't been in a men's bathroom in "years".
** The Street Preacher delivering a sermon about rejecting the organic body and embracing technological implants as part of God's plan for humanity and salvation from the NAS plague. [=PharmaKom=] goons come to bring him the preservation chamber with which to store Johnny's head.
** Johnny has a completely different reason for "doubling himself" when hacking his own brain to find the last image of the download code. [[spoiler: In the International cut, it's so Johnny could survive an attack from the computer virus protecting the MacGuffin. In the Japanese cut, it's so Johnny could survive "looping" the final third of the code through Jones.]]
** Takahashi killing two {{mooks}} Shinji had appointed as henchmen after Takahashi says he did not give him permission to have henchmen, as well as berating Shinji for failing to collect Johnny's head a second time.
** J-Bone explaining that Jones is a "junkie" and demonstrating that he requires some unnamed drug from a syringe.
** Additional scenes of Takahashi mourning the loss of his daughter to NAS and lectures from the AI woman speaking to Takahashi.

* ExecutiveMeddling: According to Gibson, the movie was re-edited by the producers in order to make it more "mainstream". The Japanese release is said to be closer to the director's and Gibson's original vision, although that probably isn't enough to make it ''good''.

** Takahashi killing two {{mooks}} Shinji had appointed as his lieutenants after Takahashi says he did not give him permission to have lieutenants, as well as berating Shinji for failing to collect Johnny's head a second time.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Ice-T, Udo Keir, Henry Rollins, Takeshi Kitano, and Dolph Lundgren.

** Johnny has a completely different reason for "doubling himself" when hacking him his own brain to find the last image of the download code. [[spoiler: In the International cut, it's so Johnny could survive an attack from the computer virus protecting the MacGuffin. In the Japanese cut, it's so Johnny could survive "looping" the final third of the code through Jones.]]

* {{Deleted Scene}}s:
** The Japanese release is roughly seven minutes longer than the American/International release. Changes include extended sequences, alternate takes/dialogue used for existing scenes, a different OpeningScroll, and a different musical score and soundtrack mix. Scenes '''NOT''' in the American/International release include:

* {{Deleted Scene}}s: The Japanese release is roughly seven minutes longer than the American/International release. Changes include extended sequences, alternate takes/dialogue used for existing scenes, a different OpeningScroll, and a different musical score and soundtrack mix. Scenes '''NOT''' in the American/International release include:

** There's a brief glimpse of Humphrey Bogart on the television in the hotel room where Johnny uploads the data that gets in his head. Which, I guess, is a reference to Keanu's character ''sort of'' being like Bogart's Rick Blaine from ''{{Casablanca}}''. Mind, Rick Blaine is a callous character, remarking that he doesn’t “stick [his] neck out for anyone”, who, by the end of the film, rejoins the good fight against the Nazis.
*** The particular shot of Bogart itself comes from ''TheMalteseFalcon'', a movie widely remembered for its titular MacGuffin; the scene in which this shot appears in ''Johnny Mnemonic'' exists to establish the narrative's own principal {{MacGuffin}}s.

- Don't be a bigger asshole than you have to. Go back to the [[JohnnyMnemonic Main Page]].

** Johnny acquiring his "doubler" from a contact in the lobby of the Beijing Hotel. Dialogue between the two suggests that Johnny already knew before he got to the hotel room that even with the "doubler" his storage capacity would not be adequate for the job he signed on for.

* {{Deleted Scene}}s: The Japanese release is roughly seven minutes longer than the American/International release. Changes include extended sequences, alternate takes/dialogue used for existing scenes, a different OpeningScroll, and a different soundtrack mix. Scenes '''NOT''' in the American/International release include: