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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel". Please explain how you make that imagery work in a way that's accessible to the
by RichardCA 4y ago
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel".
Please explain how you make that imagery work in a way that's accessible to the old-school 80's crowd along with the younger folks who have no clue what that reference means.
They absolutely have to get that right. No one wants to see Johnny Mnemonic again. In the first chapter, Case can't jack in because his brain was wrecked by the Russian mycotoxin. The lazy thing to do is explain that by having him dump expositiory dialog out of his mouth. The hard thing to do is actually show how jacking in works, but you can't just rehash the classic 1982 Tron style visuals one more time. A fresh approach is what's needed, a vision that's futuristic but also gets the retro part right.
So yeah, good luck with that.
- Apocryphon 4y agoThere were some fine attempts to adapt that imagery in the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33886291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33886291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33886295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33886295 > No one wants to see Johnny Mnemonic again. That adaptation is over 25 years old. I think we're probably a little better at adapting fiction as a society.
- RichardCA 4y agoI'm not saying Johnny Mnemonic is bad, just that it dates itself to the 90's so obviously these days. Same with Virtuosity, which I think is a very underrated movie. In particular I really liked Henry Rollins' performance. It was the one thing they got just right.