[quote=The Rodent]I gotta throw this out right now...

I re-watched the remake of RoboCop yesterday, and I've twigged on something about the original that I never noticed before.

 It's a very, very subtle character device that puts the viewer into the mind of RoboCop himself that was totally overlooked in the remake.




In the remake, there are a number of problems with RoboCop himself.

He's a regular guy, in a robotic suit. He knows who he is, what has happened... and has to deal with it. RoboCop himself, always referred to as "Alex", being a regular guy in a suit is a bland character played blandly by Kinnaman.

The main thing though...

You meet Alex Murphy's family. You see their struggle against the corporate big-wigs and their lawyers.







In the original, RoboCop is completely mind-wiped and has to figure out what has happened and why, and he has an internal struggle piecing together what he has been turned into... and... most importantly... you never meet his wife and son.

All you see are flash memories of them. A quick memory here, a vague memory there... allowing RoboCop to piece together that he once had a life, he was once alive.

This disconnection between the viewer and Alex's family...

... puts the viewer bang on par of the mind-set of (what is left of) Alex Murphy.

In his own words, he even says "Murphy had a wife and son, what happened to them?".

He has accepted he is no longer Alex Murphy... but that he once was Alex Murphy and he has that loss to deal with.

He then says "I can feel them, but I can't remember them".

This, is the major overlooked point of RoboCop in the remake... the viewer not ever meeting his family, means the viewer [I]understands[/I] RoboCop's viewpoint... and is connected emotionally to his plight.[/quote]

[quote=The Rodent]You know... I watched the remake of RoboCop yesterday, and I've twigged on something about the original that I never noticed before.
It's a very, very subtle character device that puts the viewer into the mind of RoboCop himself that was totally overlooked in the remake.

Looking forward to next month's Verhoeven RoboCop Club discussion now I've got something new to bring to the table :D[/quote]

[quote=The Rodent][quote=cat_sidhe][quote=ash_is_the_gal]what goes good with chili?  hashtag meal planning[/quote]

When you say chili do ypu mean the pepper or the dish? I'm an extreme chili pepper eater.[/quote]


Do you mean you eat extreme chilli peppers or you eat a lot of chillis?[/quote]

[quote=cat_sidhe][quote=ash_is_the_gal]what goes good with chili?  hashtag meal planning[/quote]

When you say chili do ypu mean the pepper or the dish? I'm an extreme chili pepper eater.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]Netflix and Chili is brilliant.

Also, moderately disgusting sounding.[/quote]

[quote=ash_is_the_gal]oh!  yeah, half and half, at least over here, is coffee creamer.  which tbh sounded kinda good :p

anyway thanks for the suggestions[/quote]

[quote=The Rodent]Oh, when I say half and half... I mean half Thai Jasmine, and half wild rice.

The wild rice gives a nice chewy texture, and the Thai gives a regular texture with a nice flavour.[/quote]

[quote=ash_is_the_gal]i do have some half and half.  ergh, i'm hungry now...[/quote]

[quote=ash_is_the_gal]ooh, jasmine rice, good idea!  thanks.[/quote]

[quote=ash_is_the_gal]lolll @ netflix and chili[/quote]

[quote=The Rodent]Ooh... if you wanted rice with the chilli, try mixing half and half... Thai Jasmine rice and wild rice.[/quote]