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Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

Director: Paul Verhoeven. Writers: Edward Neumeier , Michael Miner. Added to Watchlist. From metacritic. Stars of the s, Then and Now. Everything Coming to Hulu in December Movie and TV Anniversaries for July Filmes para assistir.

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Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Peter Weller Lewis Dan O'Herlihy Jones Kurtwood Smith Clarence Miguel Ferrer Morton Robert DoQui Reed Ray Wise Leon Felton Perry Johnson Paul McCrane Emil Jesse D.

Joe as Jesse Goins Del Zamora Kaplan Calvin Jung Minh Rick Lieberman Walker Lee de Broux Edit Storyline In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force.

Taglines: The future of law enforcement. Edit Did You Know? Trivia During on-set production interviews, Peter Weller referred to his character as 'John Murphy' which many believe to be erroneous on his part.

However, the name 'Alex' is never spoken in the film, and Weller's character is only ever referred to by himself and others as 'Murphy', so it is possible it was scripted as 'John' but changed sometime during production.

The only reference seen to 'Alex Murphy' is on the computer record Robocop looks up on the police file, which could have been an easy post-production change.

Goofs Murphy's residence is listed as Primrose, but when RoboCop goes to the house and reads the street sign right next to it, we see that he's in the block.

You give us 3 minutes, and we'll give you the world. It was eventually released in on a compilation album called Side Trax by Ministry. To appease the requirements of the ratings board, Verhoeven reduced the blood and gore in the most violent scenes in the movie, including ED's shooting of Kinney in the boardroom, Bobby being shot in the leg, the Boddicker gang's execution of Murphy with shotguns, and the final battle with Boddicker.

Verhoeven also added humorous commercials throughout the news broadcasts to lighten the mood and distract from the violent aspects of the movie most of the commercials satirize various aspects of the American consumer culture, such as the commercial for the SUX sedan.

After 11 original X ratings, the film was eventually given an R rating for graphic violence, strong language, and brief nudity. Criterion released the uncut "director's edit" on LaserDisc in However, pulled the Blu-ray just days before it was to be released.

On June 6, , the film was released and doubled-featured with The Terminator on 2-disc only. Only a handful of copies were released to the general public, mainly reviewers, making it very rare.

A remastered Blu-ray edition was released in January to tie into the remake. The Blu-ray 4K master edition also features this unrated cut.

Regarding the omitted scenes, Verhoeven stated on the anniversary edition DVD that he had wanted the violence to be "over the top", in an almost comical fashion such as the scene involving the executive that is killed by ED, and Bob Morton immediately asking "Somebody wanna call a goddamn paramedic?!

Verhoeven felt that the tone of the violence was more upsetting due to the deletions requested by the MPAA. An alternate network TV Version was also released.

The stronger language was either deleted or dubbed over. Blood was kept to a minimum. And, instead of Boddicker running over Emil with his sedan, decapitating him in the process, he swerves around, and misses him.

The following scenes are presented in the uncut version of the movie which originally received an X Rating:. On November 26, , Arrow video put out a special Blu-ray edition with new extras, both cuts of the film, a television version cut, and interviews with Nancy Allen and Julie Selzer.

It uses the same 4K remaster MGM put out on their release back in In a interview, Edward Neumeier reflected on how the film's script is starting to play into reality: "We are now living in the world that I was proposing in RoboCop Two of the primary themes explored by RoboCop are the media and human nature.

On the Criterion Edition DVD commentary track, executive producer Jon Davison and writer Edward Neumeier both relate the film to the decay of American industry from the s through the early s, with the abandoned " Rust Belt style" factories that RoboCop and Clarence Boddicker's gang use as hideouts reflecting this concern.

Massive unemployment is prevalent, being reported frequently on the news, as are poverty and the crime that results from economic hardship.

This is represented in Murphy's horrific death alluding to the crucifixion of Jesus , his return alluding to the resurrection of Jesus , and the showdown with Clarence Boddicker at the steel mill, which finds RoboCop trudging through ankle-deep water, which alludes to Jesus walking on water.

Darian Leader considers RoboCop one example of how the cinema has dealt with the concept of masculinity, showing that to be a man requires more than having the body of a man: something symbolic that is not ultimately human must be added.

Leader wrote of RoboCop :. The RoboCop is a family man who is destroyed by thugs, then rebuilt as a robot by science. His son always insists, before the transformation, that his human father perform the gun spinning trick he sees on TV.

When the robot can finally do this properly, he is no longer just a male biological body: he is a body plus machinery, a body which includes within it the symbolic circuitry of science.

Old heroes had bits of metal outside them knights , but modern heroes have bits of metal inside them. To be a man today thus involves this kind of real incorporation of symbolic properties.

The depiction of Murphy's struggles in reasserting his humanity also deals with themes of identity.

This is even touched upon in the cyborg's construction. Rob Bottin and Paul Verhoeven, and Ed Neumeier had all come up with a concept that there would be such a potential for psychological disruption.

Even if you had supposedly wiped someone's memories and emotions they'd still might have some kind of residual humanity where, if they'd looked at themselves as a complete robot with no relation to their past organic form, they'd completely freak out and have a psychotic breakdown.

So the idea was that surgeons had literally skinned off Alex Murphy's face and then placed it on the cyborg. So it's not like they transplanted his head, they just took his face off and laid it on the cyborg, and that was to give him his own little sense of identity.

RoboCop was released in American theaters on July 17, The film opened no. On Metacritic , the film has a score of 67 out based on reviews from 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

The site's consensus is: "While over-the-top and gory, RoboCop is also a surprisingly smart sci-fi flick that uses ultraviolence to disguise its satire of American culture".

Roger Ebert praised the film, calling RoboCop "a thriller with a difference," praising the way it puts the audience off-guard, and calling it a thriller not easily categorized with splashes of other genres added.

Ebert praised Weller for his performance and his ability to elicit sympathy despite the layers of makeup and prosthetics.

Verhoeven's sizzling battles than poor Murphy does from his robosuit. Feminist Susan Faludi called RoboCop one of "an endless stream of war and action movies" in which "women are reduced to mute and incidental characters or banished altogether.

Barry Norman was critical of the film, viewing its excessive violence as "verging on sadism". He praised "some cracking jokes and special effects", concluding by calling it "almost admirable.

In , Entertainment Weekly named the film the 14th greatest action film of all time, [60] and Complex rated it as the 19th best action film of all time in The film was on the ballot for two of the American Film Institute 's Series lists.

These included Years RoboCop was a candidate in the science fiction category. In February , a humorous ploy asked Detroit Mayor Dave Bing if there was to be a RoboCop statue in his "New Detroit" proposal, which was planned to turn Detroit back into a prosperous city again.

When Bing said there was no such plan, and word of this reached the Internet, several fundraising events raised enough money for the statue, which would be built at the Imagination Station [68] led by Jerry Paffendorf and Brandon Walley.

There were plans to unveil the RoboCop statue in spring of In October , the Michigan Science Center announced that the project was no longer being worked on.

The status has been unknown as of December 29, On December 31, , Jerry Paffendorf of the Imagination Station announced that the statue was still underway to be revealed later that winter.

Joel Kinnaman plays the role of Alex Murphy and Gary Oldman is "Norton", a new character, "the scientist who creates RoboCop and finds himself torn between the ideals of the machine trying to rediscover its humanity and the callous needs of a corporation.

In January it was announced that original RoboCop writer Ed Neumeier was writing a direct sequel to the classic film that would ignore both sequels and the remake.

There's been a bunch of other RoboCop movies and there was recently a remake and I would say this would be kind of going back to the old RoboCop we all love and starting there and going forward.

So it's a continuation really of the first movie. In my mind. So it's a little bit more of the old school thing," Neumeier said. Going well!

Imagine watching Verhoeven do a follow up film. The film novelization , written by Ed Naha , was released on June 1, The novel differed in several ways from the film by following one of the earlier drafts of the screenplay.

It expanded on Murphy's struggle with being part man and part machine, and his memories. It also included more "humanized" dialogue from RoboCop, as opposed to the minimal, cold dialogue heard in the film.

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Plus, see what some of your favorite '90s stars look like now. See the full gallery. In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force.

To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype.

But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters. Written by Jwelch Detroit is under siege by a corrupt CEO in the police department Murphy flawlessly played by Peter Weller was a family man with a big heart whose body is eventually 'saved' by tech-geniuses, transforming him into a robot-cop with a big heart, natch.

The violence in the film is incredibly brutal in the manner of "Death Wish", yet it can almost be overlooked--even deemed necessary--in the context of the plot.

Weller exudes sensitivity not easy to do under that coat of armor , and he's matched very well by Ronny Cox delightfully sinister and sniveling and spunky Nancy Allen in her best performance.

A bleak vision of the future, though one which offers hope underneath its chestplate of destruction. Followed by "RoboCop 2" in , "RoboCop 3" in , and a television series in Looking for something to watch?

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User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

Director: Paul Verhoeven. Writers: Edward Neumeier , Michael Miner. Added to Watchlist. From metacritic. Stars of the s, Then and Now.

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Use the HTML below. Impressed and thankful for saving his life, the chairman asks RoboCop's name; he replies "Murphy" and smiles, indicating he has gained a sense of his humanity.

The cast also includes Michael Gregory as Lt. Nemeth as Bixby Snyder. Neumeier was inspired by a poster for the science fiction film Blade Runner ; he asked his friend what the film was about and his friend replied, "It's about a cop hunting robots".

While the two were attempting to pitch the screenplay , they were stranded at an airplane terminal with a high-ranking film executive for several hours.

Here, they were able to speak to him about the project, and thus began the series of events which eventually gave rise to RoboCop.

In , before seeing the Blade Runner poster, Neumeier wrote the first, unrelated treatment, about a robot police officer who was not a cyborg but in the development of the story his computer mind became more similar to human.

The plot takes place in a fairly distant future, the world is ruled by corporations and it was assumed that this world would be visually similar to the world shown in Blade Runner.

The treatment was rejected by many studios because of the incompleteness of the storyline and settings. Neumeier and Miner felt that they could successfully combine their ideas.

Although he had been working in the Netherlands for more than a decade and directed several films to acclaim, such as Soldier of Orange in , he moved to Hollywood in to seek broader opportunities.

Verhoeven recalled that, when he first glanced through the script, he discarded it in disgust. Afterwards, his wife, after picking the script from the bin and reading it more thoroughly, convinced him that the plot had more substance than he had originally assumed.

Another Rom comic appears in a flashback depicting Murphy's son. Neumeier based the character Dick Jones on a landlord he had the time he was writing Robocop, who always wore grey suit and was always really drunk.

His actual name was Dick Jones, which Neumeier thought sounded old fashioned and used it for the character. However, each man's large frame would have made it difficult for either of them to move in the cumbersome RoboCop suit, which had been modeled on hockey gear and designed to be large and bulky.

Weller won the role both because Verhoeven felt that he could adequately convey pathos with his lower face, and because Weller was especially lithe and could more easily move inside the suit than a bigger actor.

Stephanie Zimbalist , who at the time was one of the stars of the television series Remington Steele , was originally cast as Anne Lewis. NBC had canceled Remington Steele in , leaving the stars free to accept other roles, subject to options for further episodes on their contracts.

However, an upsurge of interest in the show saw the network exercise the options, [14] which meant that Zimbalist was then forced to withdraw from RoboCop , to be replaced by Nancy Allen.

In the DVD director's commentary, Verhoeven explained that he intentionally chose to cast Kurtwood Smith and Ronny Cox against type by making them the central villains.

Cox was an actor who, until then, was primarily known for "nice-guy" roles, such as fatherly figures. Similarly, Smith had been cast as more intellectual characters.

In addition, he previously worked as 1st AD with special effects supervisor Dale Martin on John Milius 's Red Dawn , and has already used the latest Ford model as a near-future patrol car on the Michael Crichton 's Runaway.

Herewith artist Robert Webb claiming that Schmidt had a great influence on Verhoeven during production. Filming began on August 6, , and wrapped on November 8, The scenes depicting Murphy's death were not filmed until the following January , some months after principal shooting had ceased.

Although RoboCop is set in Detroit , Michigan, many of the urban settings in the film were actually filmed in Dallas , Texas.

The front of Dallas City Hall was used as the exterior for the fictional OCP Headquarters, combined with extensive matte paintings to make the building appear taller than it actually is.

Peter Weller had prepared extensively for the role using a padded costume, as development of the actual RoboCop suit was three weeks behind schedule.

The suit later had a fan built into it. Monte Hellman acted as second unit director after Verhoeven began to fall behind schedule.

Everything relating to the actual chase - including all of Weller and Allen's dialogue - up to the point where Bobby, a member of Clarence's gang, lands on the windshield of Murphy's car, is by Hellman, though he was not responsible for the dialogue inside the van.

He also directed all the exteriors of Murphy's house on Primrose Lane - a single shot of Murphy's wife and son standing outside the house waving at a retreating camera inserted into the sequence in which Murphy undergoes an operation , the whole sequence of Robocop driving down Primrose Lane, pulling up outside the house and getting out of the car, and part of the sequence inside the house - it was shot back to back with first unit, Verhoeven directed Murphy's memories, Hellman did Robocop scenes and his vision.

As Hellman recalls, "I spent four weeks working as second unit director, from September 30 to October 24, Second unit was somewhat of a misnomer, since most of my scenes were with Peter Weller and sometimes Nancy Allen.

The crew would fight to be assigned to my unit, since working for me was less stressful than working for Verhoeven. I worked with Robocop almost every day, I think I only worked with Nancy a couple of times.

I did anything that could conceivably be second unit during the time the company was in Dallas: my second unit was the only one for the bulk of the Dallas shoot, and I was there every day from about the third week until they finished in Dallas.

For budgetary reasons, and because they were no longer so behind schedule, they decided not to take me to the other location.

I have a clearer picture of the scenes I did with Peter and Nancy, just because we had such a good time doing them. You can safely assume that any shot of Robocop driving was by me, except where a shot culminates in a big dialog scene after he gets out of the car.

I shot tons of footage of Robo driving through the city at dusk, but only a fraction is in the movie. Like most directors, Paul hated the idea that there was a second unit at all, particularly one that was shooting with his actors and not just sunsets.

They did want to credit me as second unit director, but I wasn't able to accept that credit because Verhoeven was not a member of the DGA , and the company had not signed an agreement with the DGA.

I was put on trial and nearly suspended, so I couldn't risk another offence. I did try to keep my involvement with Robocop quiet, but it's so long ago, and the DGA is not quite as hard-ass as they once were.

They were hard times. After that he directed blood running through the streets of the model city, close shots of the model being shot up and the blood running through it, but none of this footage was used in the final version.

The Ford Taurus was used as the police cruiser in the movie, due to its then-futuristic design. Bob Morton's home was filmed in a home near Dallas featured in the show Beyond in The task of creating the RoboCop suit was given to Rob Bottin.

A budget of up to one million dollars was allotted to the completion of the suit, making it the most expensive item on the set. A total of six suits were made: three intact and three showing damage.

Bottin himself had produced early design sketches for the suit's prototype that the studio accepted enthusiastically, albeit with the request of some minor adjustments.

Rob, Paul Verhoeven, and Edward Neumeier came up with the concept of the suit being more of an outer shell, with very little of the actor's actual face being visible.

Bottin explained the basis of the design:. It's meant to look very speedy and aerodynamic. All the lines were geometric, and complement every shape on the body from all angles.

When Verhoeven came on the project, he requested numerous design changes, additions to the suit which looked more like machine than man-like.

RoboCop looks the way he does because that's the way a man's body works! Although we went through fifty different variations, developing his character, everything came back to man-like.

It's definitely a guy in the suit, which doesn't belittle it any. The suit itself was attached to the actor in sections.

To wear the helmet, Peter Weller wore a bald cap that allowed the helmet to be removed easily. After almost 10 months of preparation, the RoboCop suit was completed based on life casts from Peter Weller and Bottin's six-foot clay models.

The suit's color was supposed to be bright blue; however, it was given a more grayish tint to make it look more metallic and produce less glare on the camera when it was being filmed.

Peter Weller had in the meantime hired Moni Yakim, the head of the Movement Department at Juilliard , to help create an appropriate way for him to move his body while wearing the RoboCop suit.

The suit, however, proved to be too heavy and cumbersome. Instead, at the suggestion of Moni, it was decided that they would slow down RoboCop's movements in order to make them more appealing and plausible.

Filming stopped for three days, allowing Peter and Paul Verhoeven to discuss new movements for the suit.

The original gun for RoboCop was a Desert Eagle , but this was deemed too small. The gun holster itself was a standalone piece that was not integrated into the suit.

Off-screen technicians would operate the device on cue by pulling cables that would force the holster to open up and allow the gun to be placed inside.

The ED stop motion model was designed by Craig Hayes , [29] who also built the full size models, and animated by Phil Tippett , a veteran stop-motion animator.

ED was voiced by producer Jon Davison. Davies and Tippett would go on to collaborate on many more projects. In one scene, Emil attempts to run down RoboCop, but instead accidentally drives into a vat of toxic waste , causing the flesh to melt off his face and hands.

These effects were also conceived and designed by Bottin, who was inspired by Rick Baker 's work on The Incredible Melting Man , and who dubbed the RoboCop effects "the Melting Man" as an homage to the production.

The dinosaur itself was animated by Don Waller, who also had a cameo in the same sequence, reacting to the rampaging creature in a tight close-up.

The soundtrack score for the movie was composed by Basil Poledouris , who used both synthesized and orchestral music as a mirror to the man-versus-machine theme of the movie.

The score alternates brass-heavy material, including the RoboCop theme and ED's theme, with more introverted pieces for strings, such as during RoboCop's homecoming scene.

The final four tracks were included on later CD re-issues. On the theatrical trailer, the theme of The Terminator was used instead of the RoboCop theme.

Similarly, the track Van Chase was used for the trailer of " Dollman ". P was a short-lived side project consisting of members of the bands Ministry and Skinny Puppy.

However, this song was not available in any official form and could only be heard in the film. It was eventually released in on a compilation album called Side Trax by Ministry.

To appease the requirements of the ratings board, Verhoeven reduced the blood and gore in the most violent scenes in the movie, including ED's shooting of Kinney in the boardroom, Bobby being shot in the leg, the Boddicker gang's execution of Murphy with shotguns, and the final battle with Boddicker.

After 11 original X ratings, the film was eventually given an R rating for graphic violence, strong language, and brief nudity.

Criterion released the uncut "director's edit" on LaserDisc in However, pulled the Blu-ray just days before it was to be released.

On June 6, , the film was released and doubled-featured with The Terminator on 2-disc only. Only a handful of copies were released to the general public, mainly reviewers, making it very rare.

A remastered Blu-ray edition was released in January to tie into the remake. The Blu-ray 4K master edition also features this unrated cut.

Verhoeven felt that the tone of the violence was more upsetting due to the deletions requested by the MPAA.

An alternate network TV Version was also released. The stronger language was either deleted or dubbed over. Blood was kept to a minimum.

And, instead of Boddicker running over Emil with his sedan, decapitating him in the process, he swerves around, and misses him. The following scenes are presented in the uncut version of the movie which originally received an X Rating:.

On November 26, , Arrow video put out a special Blu-ray edition with new extras, both cuts of the film, a television version cut, and interviews with Nancy Allen and Julie Selzer.

Massive unemployment is prevalent, being reported frequently on the news, as are poverty and the crime that results from economic hardship.

When the robot can finally do this properly, he is no longer just a male biological body: he is a body plus machinery, a body which includes within it the symbolic circuitry of science.

Old heroes had bits of metal outside them knights , but modern heroes have bits of metal inside them. To be a man today thus involves this kind of real incorporation of symbolic properties.

The depiction of Murphy's struggles in reasserting his humanity also deals with themes of identity. This is even touched upon in the cyborg's construction.

Rob Bottin and Paul Verhoeven, and Ed Neumeier had all come up with a concept that there would be such a potential for psychological disruption.