Re: [microsound] neuromancer soundtrack - was snow crash

[graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

macrosound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Here's some more detailed info on that
> http://www.antonraubenweiss.com/gibson/gibson0.html
>
> the site's a little weird about urls so you have to click around a bit but
> it has the movie script apparently.
>
> Jonny Mnemonic sucked.

very much so.

> I guess there is some hope for neuromancer because
> Gibson didn't write the screenplay.

he's not so good with screenplays, is he? i asked him about the alien3 script
a couple years back in toronto and basically said it was a nightmare of
bureaucracy - the only thing that survived was the barcode tatoos. that said,
his alien3 script is online and it's quite bad.

>
> Anyone else disgusted by the whitening of molly's character in Jonny?

there is nothing to indicate molly as asian in any of the books... i always
imagined her looking something like my ex-girlfriend with cybernetic claws:)

> I
> was expecting a lithe asian with permanent sunglasses and razor nails.
> Luckily, that vision was fulfilled by xmen 2.

deathstrike would have made a good molly, yes... but i always pictured molly
a bit like helena bonham-carter's character in figh club except taller and
buffer...

g.

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