Johnny Mnemonic Film vs Story

I will begin by saying that the movie Johnny Mnemonic did not meet the expectations of the short story written by William Gibson but I have to highlight that were both positive and negative. The movie is not exactly what you see in the story but we must understand that not everything written may become a great movie. The book managed to capture my attention more than the film, the reason is because the movie does not have the element of surprise which is presents in the book as a first person view. The story presents more detailed characteristics and thoughts of the characters that we do not see in the movie because we are watching it from the outside not like in the story were Johnny’s thoughts have to be written so that we could understand.

One of the similarities is that they both started with the main part of the story Johnny the tech guy who has the ability to store a big amount of information in his brain. The only difference is that the book is much more explicit, since writing is the tool we use to develop our imagination. Unlike in the movie were they choose to delete or ad details that have the ability to make us see what we were imagining. Like the first scene of the movie is different to how the story starts, for one moment I thought I was watching the wrong movie. I was not surprise that they manage to create this very technical guy in a dark mechanic world that we expected from the story because that was the whole point of it.