From: kcalder@blueyonder.co.uk   
      
   In message <400B0BA4.8080803@hotmail.com>, Alienthe   
    writes   
   >3ngine wrote:   
      
      
      
   >Cyberpunk literature has a few of these:   
   > - Johnny Mnemonic starts square jawed, ends in tragedy   
   > - Case is an anti-hero but hardly saves much   
      
   Well, he saves himself.   
      
   > - Hiro Protagonist is a Hollywood grade hero   
   > - Neo, well...   
      
   Fuck neo.   
      
   >> Hey, I forgot who I was talking with about this (distinction between   
   >> *punk, such as biopunk, genepunk, etc.), but Molly from Gibson's   
   >> universe is jacked up genetically, right?  If she were alone in a   
      
   >Not sure if it is genetically but definitely engineered   
   >and paid for.   
      
   >> novel, it'd still be CP, right?  Maybe there really isn't any   
   >> difference between *punks...   
      
   >Molly is a femme fatale in the Noir tradition.   
      
   Not entirely in the tradition.  Many (most?) traditional femme fatale's   
   are not sympathetic characters.  I sympathise at least as much with   
   Molly as I do with Case.   
      
   > Still, any   
   >movie with her would probably rate a cyberpunk movie, at   
   >least with me.   
      
   Me 2!   
      
   Now did we ever settle the issue of her casting?   
   --   
   Kevin Calder   
      
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