{"id":105,"date":"2010-05-20T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/?p=105"},"modified":"2010-05-20T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:07:00","slug":"neuromancer-filming-the-un-filmable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/2010\/05\/20\/neuromancer-filming-the-un-filmable\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuromancer: filming the un-filmable"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Neuromancer\"<\/a>
Mapping the future: Neuromancer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There\u2019s a move afoot to film William Gibson\u2019s<\/a> ground-breaking cyber-punk novel, Neuromance<\/a>r<\/em>. Director Vincenzo Natali is eager to realise the supposedly un-filmable novel, the papers have reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An earlier attempt to make Gibson\u2019s techno-filled prose into a film resulted in Johnny Mnemonic<\/a><\/em>, which has a brilliant idea at its heart \u2013 people who smuggle data in chips inside their head, jacking in to servers to download information into a storage device \u2018wet-wired\u2019 into the brain. But the film didn\u2019t manage visually to live up to the potential of Gibson\u2019s vibrant literary imaginings, and one wonders whether the techno-ridden crackle of Neuromancer<\/em> can similarly be translated onto the screen, with better results.<\/p>\n

Published in 1984 (Orwell would have approved), Neuromancer<\/em>\u2019s influence on science-fiction literature and film has been immense, most noticeably in The Matrix<\/em> and its sequels (although, to my mind, The Matrix<\/em> is more derivative of Philip Jose Farmer\u2019s fantastic Riverworld<\/a><\/em> sequence, but that\u2019s for another article).<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s to be realised in a manner which captures the energy of the prose, the boundary-pushing imaginings and the idea of a world morphed by technology to such an extent as Gibson uses time and again in his writing, it will need to do so in a way that doesn\u2019t make it seem itself a descendant of The Matrix <\/em>and its children \u2013 Equilibrium<\/a><\/em> springs to mind.<\/p>\n

Should Neuromancer<\/em> come off the page, or should it be left up to the reader to realise Gibson’s amazing vision ?<\/p>\n

Posted by Daniel Harding<\/strong>, Deputy Director of Music at the University of Kent<\/a>. Click here<\/a> to read his Music Matters blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a move afoot to film William Gibson\u2019s ground-breaking cyber-punk novel, Neuromancer. Director Vincenzo Natali is eager to realise the supposedly un-filmable novel, the papers have reported. An earlier attempt to make Gibson\u2019s techno-filled prose into a film resulted in Johnny Mnemonic, which has a brilliant idea at its heart \u2013 people who smuggle data … Continue reading “Neuromancer: filming the un-filmable”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1123,1138],"tags":[1174,1173,1175,1172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}