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Post by jabberwocky on Feb 21, 2005 16:47:08 GMT -5
Some say that Cyber Punk is dead, I on the other hand still feel that the genre still has a place in todays sci-fi. Perhaps more so now with todays problems being what they are now.
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Post by Vanguard the Newly Employed on Feb 22, 2005 0:32:59 GMT -5
Cyberpunk isn't dead, but things have changed since the late '70s and '80s. Like any genre, it has evolved with the times. I don't think any genre can truly die, as long as an authour has imagination and is resourceful.
In a sense, we're living a cyberpunk existence. Technology seems to be running away from us, and it's exploited all too often. The world has become a global network, and people - hackers, con-men, and so on - have taken advantage of that, effectively turning it into a new underworld, and a new warzone.
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Post by jabberwocky on Feb 22, 2005 1:56:35 GMT -5
Well since the internet was never meant to be used for e commerce so it is by enlarge open for con men, and Crackers. So it is by enlarge been a self-fulfilling disaster.
Still your right the genre of cyber punk is forever evolving.
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Post by jabberwocky on May 31, 2005 2:49:13 GMT -5
I read what amounts to what was a working script for the novel Neuromancer by William Gibson. From what I heard about this particular script was that this script follows the closest to the book. For the most part I have to say that I did find the script followed the book quite well except for a few things so that they could I guess add a little action the the movie, but at the end the script started to go in a tangent in what was happening to the main character. So much so that I think and die hard fan of the book would have been shacking their head wondering what the heck is going on here. Because of this I'm glad that the project fell through, and with any luck the film right are back in Gibson's hands again. One of the problems thought with any film project that was in the works based on Gibson's Cyberpunk trilogy was that the film rights to each book when to a different production company so there is of course conflicts with copy right of characters that are in all of the book. which we saw in the movie Johnny Mnemonic the character Molly had a name change for one thing and a slight change in look. With any luck Some production company will try and get the right to the complete trilogy and take into account that these stories are for a select audience.
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