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The movie version of that line is a captivating opening screen. I'm afraid The Matrix stole its thunder, however, with its Warner Brothers logo in sapphire/term
by AceJohnny2 4y ago
The movie version of that line is a captivating opening screen. I'm afraid The Matrix stole its thunder, however, with its Warner Brothers logo in sapphire/terminal green with the flickering grey cloud background.
In fact, a lot of Neuromancer's elements were successfully implemented in The Matrix (crapsack protagonist helped towards his destiny by kick-ass ninja girl. Heist team that gets whittled down. rasta side-characters... Hell, even Morpheus drooling as he's being tortured by the Agents reminds me of Armitage breaking down) so I don't know how Neuromancer can transition to the screen without feeling too much like a rehash of The Matrix.
- jhbadger 4y agoArguably, Inception was even closer to Neuromancer. They were both about a washed up hacker who is recruited to do one last job who first has to assemble a crew to do it. And they both end up dealing with a simulation of their former lover at the end! And in a ruined city! Yes, it was dream hacking in Inception but that was the only major difference.
- AceJohnny2 4y agoNice, I never made the connection! Inception is so tonally different to how I felt Neuromancer.
- Apocryphon 4y agoInception is pretty much an analog cyberpunk story. Its themes are of simulated realities, induced hallucinations, questioning perception, the sort of stuff that goes back to Philip K. Dick proto-cyberpunk. Its trappings are of shadowy megacorporations (one is named Cobol Engineering!), heists undertaken by specialized teams of gun-toting fashionistas, malignant anomalies with minds of their own.