| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | RoboCop (1987) |
| Director | Paul Verhoeven |
| Writer | Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner |
| Lead Actor | Peter Weller |
| Cast | Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith |
| Genre | Action, Sci-Fi, Crime |
| Release Date | July 17, 1987 (USA) |
| Duration | 1h 42m (102 min) |
| Budget | $13 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDb Rating | 7.6/10 |
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RoboCop (1987)
“RoboCop was released in 1987, and it’s the sort of film that looks like it was made by somebody who knew America only from what he read in newspapers. Which may be close to the truth; Dutch director Paul Verhoeven had been living in the U.S. for less than a decade when he made this, his first big-budget Hollywood film.
The script gleefully takes on every myth told about the U.S. during the Reagan ‘80s: Cities are dens of evil and full of constant gunplay, authority has been brought to heel by capitalism, technology has crushed our humanity to atoms, the media destroys the morals of children. RoboCop plays all of this out as a bloody farce it’s both funny and violent as hell but it also knows that there are kernels of truth in all those statements. Great science fiction sheds light on the real world by recreating it radically, and RoboCop is great science fiction it’s one of the best dystopian fantasies about America put to film. The place is Detroit, the time sometime in the near future.
The part of the city known as “Old Detroit” is a cesspool of grime, slums, and toxic sludge, “New Detroit” is an empty promise of a shining new city that we see only on billboards. The police force is privatized, and one of its officers, Alex J. Murphy (Peter Weller) is grotesquely wounded during a fight with a gang. OCP, the company running the force, has had back luck creating a purely mechanical cop. So it claims Murphy’s nearly dead body and transforms it into a man machine hybrid that’s programmed to perform police work ethically.
On his first night on the beat, he stops a rape in progress, shooting the rapist in the crotch and telling the woman in a chill monotone “You have suffered an emotional shock. I will notify a rape crisis center.” That’s good for a chuckle, but it has some postmodern underpinnings. The idea is that in a techno capitalist world, acting like a decent human being means mechanizing whole chunks of yourself and shutting off your emotional despair
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