Johnny Mnemonic props

[LeMarchand]

In another thread Juno mentioned our ancient thread about Johnny Mnemonic props and graphics, that was some 4-5 years ago. Sith Sheriff Brody made some killer graphics and fonts, and i was working on the SOGO 7 datagloves, Thompson Eyephone and J-Bone's goggles.

It would be great to come together again and talk about the props from the movie again and maybe some new members who weren't around at the time would like to chime in. I know of at least one friend who has obtained 2 screenused guns from the movie.

Ok, i'll start off with what i have done so far.

Amongst my favorite props are the datagloves and the eyephone. At the time the only reference was some unclear screencaps, but i was lucky and tracked down the propmakers who build both props and they were very helpfull with filling in the blanks where they could, and i was even sent an original aluminium faceplate for the eyephones.

You can read my dataglove research here:
Sogo 7 Dataglove page

The goggles J-Bone (Ice-T's character) were very simple. They were modified paintball masks. I build one and just need to do the ribbed band for the back.

I haven't had the time to work on the gloves and eyephones for some time, but i intend to finish them sooner or later and since the original gloves were made of leather and would easily come apart, i am thinking of doing it in rubber.

Anyway, let's discuss

Marc

 

[Great_Bizarro]

How about the memory enhancemant pack used to increase his ram. Full size dolphine and tank.

 

[juno]

I still have a couple of packs of the correct cigarettes (I finally let the calculator go -- a Sharp EL-531G D.A.L. in case anyone wants to do it.)

 

[Mike J.]

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Let's see what we got here...

The cigarettes are Chunghwa, a fairly expensive Chinese brand. I think the wrapper we see on screen is either a repro by the production or a bootleg, as it has no gold foil.

On alternate versions:

William Gibson, May 10, 2003:

http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/archive/...e.asp#200271614

Alas, that's the tragedy of JM as released: it was *full* then, as written and shot, but Sony surgically excised every one they could. They'd have probably cut the Room Service speech if it had been possible.

Ever notice how little sense Dolph Lundgren's Street Preacher character makes? Just this big lunatic who periodically rages onstage and tosses people around?

I'll tell you something you may not believe: Dolph Lungren can actually do *comedy*. I mean, like, who knew? But he can, and did, with great gusto. The nature of his character was anchored in a scene in his church (he's the local Panawave-equivalent) in which he preaches, buck nekkid and skin-studded with creepy nano-gizmos, to a congragation of adoring female NAS victims. He delivers a bombastic, faux-Sterlingesque, literally balls-out *sermon* on the virtues of posthumanity. It came off sort of like Fabio as the ***** you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley. It *rocked*. Hilarious. So Sony cut it.

They cut it out of fear of offending the religious right. No kidding. They actually told me that. That's the sort of thing I mean when I say the JM you see is not the movie we shot.

[JM as I wrote it, and Longo shot it, is only available as the published screenplay (but quite readily available as that). I only agreed to publish it, in the first place, because I wanted to be in the position to demonstrate the difference between what I wrote, and we shot, and what they released. I doubt there's even a remote possibility of there ever being a restored "director's cut", although the Japanese version of the DVD is a little closer to our intention.]

That big cube in the second VR sequence has a bunch of stock data on it, visible only on the movie poster. Listed stocks are Banco Orbitale, Pharmakom, Royal Belgian Agronet, Medelin Datahavens, Deutsch Nanomech AG, and Ono-Sendai. All of those make some tiny appearance in cyberspace, as well — usually tiny flying logos. Also present in cyberspace is the logo of AutoDesk, the CAD software used to make all the CG.

Here are some props & what-not: http://www.fxsmith.com/port4.html

I also have a buttload of DVD caps — though my DVD is lent out at the moment.


-Mike

 

[turok96]

What about the video images on the card, did anyone make this?