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Subject: Re: Motor dolphin?


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Adrian
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Date Posted: 23:44:27 04/17/03 Thu
In reply to: Dena 's message, "W T F is a motor dolphin?" on 21:36:41 04/17/03 Thu

> Has anyone here got a clue...?

I don't know Japanese, but there was a motor dolphin in the movie Johnny Mnemonic, starring Keanu Reeves. It was a bad movie based on William Gibson's short story of the same name (the story is better).

In the movie, the dolphin was in a water tank. The dolphin was wearing a "motor" that allowed it to speak English (translated) through a loudspeaker, if I remember correctly. The dolphin did nothing in the movie other than serve as a neat concept. That was part of the reason that the movie was bad -- the dolphin was introduced and just floated in its tank while Reeves was getting pursued by gun-toting Yakuza agents. Most of the audience thought, "We're in the middle of a gun chase, and you interrupt it to have us stare at a dolphin for a while?"

It reminds me of how the US Navy used dolphins in the Persian Gulf to disarm Iraqi mines. Anyway, the phrase "motor dolphin" does make sense in the context of science fiction.

I wouldn't recommend watching the movie just to satisfy your motor dolphin curiousity. It's not worth the time.

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