Johnny SPQR
Johnny SPQR is a 1995 cyberpunk history film about a Roman Consul (Keanu Reeves) with a cybernetic brain implant designed to win the Punic Wars.
Co-starring Henry Rollins as Cato the Censor.
Tagline
"Carthago delenda est."
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Fiction cross-reference
- Do Empires Dream of Electric Slaves?
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Johnny Mnemonic 4: The Voyage Home
- Matrix to America
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Laurentian
- Palmer Eldritch Overdrive
- Sea Peoples
- The Muppets: 1453
- Trajan
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External links
- Carthago delenda est @ Wikipedia
- SPQR @ Wikipedia
- Mary Beard on SPQR: The History of Ancient Rome @ YouTube
- Johnny Mnemonic @ Wikipedia
- Johnny Mnemonic - trailer @ YouTube
- Virtual Reality scene @ YouTube
- It's a fish @ YouTube
- Results of too much tech @ YouTube
- Best Scenes from Johnny Mnemonic (1995) @ YouTube
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