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After reading this, watch Robocop again. Same director, same critique on society. Really adds another layer to it.
Most of the satirical elements in Robocop were directed at corporations.
I'm surprised the author never even mentions the book by Robert Heinlein. Granted the movie tells a different story than the book but they share the similarity in that on the surface they both preach of the virtues and nobility of war but upon closer inspection, we see that they're telling a different story entirely.
"The screenplay, by Robocop writer Edward Neumeier, furnished the old-fashioned science-fiction framework of Robert A. Heinlein’s notoriously militaristic novel with archetypes on loan from teen soaps and young adult-fiction, undermining the self-serious saber-rattling of the source text."
After reading this, watch Robocop again. Same director, same critique on society. Really adds another layer to it.
It's just dripping with satire.
feels like a giant whoosh.
I'm surprised the author never even mentions the book by Robert Heinlein. Granted the movie tells a different story than the book but they share the similarity in that on the surface they both preach of the virtues and nobility of war but upon closer inspection, we see that they're telling a different story entirely.
That aspect of serious advocacy is completely absent from the movie.
After reading this, watch Robocop again. Same director, same critique on society. Really adds another layer to it.
My memories are hazy, but Robocop felt very different. It did not criticize the establishment (i.e. the police) very much. In fact, the main character was a cop who got fatally wounded by "the bad guys" and then was resurrected as a badass robot and delivered sweet payback. Most of the satirical elements in Robocop were directed at corporations.
After reading this, watch Robocop again. Same director, same critique on society. Really adds another layer to it.
My memories are hazy, but Robocop felt very different. It did not criticize the establishment (i.e. the police) very much. In fact, the main character was a cop who got fatally wounded by "the bad guys" and then was resurrected as a badass robot and delivered sweet payback. Most of the satirical elements in Robocop were directed at corporations.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The screenplay, by Robocop writer Edward Neumeier, furnished the old-fashioned science-fiction framework of Robert A. Heinlein’s notoriously militaristic novel with archetypes on loan from teen soaps and young adult-fiction, undermining the self-serious saber-rattling of the source text."
Although I haven't read the novel, it would be most meta irony if the article's author was missing the book's subtle societal criticism.
He lays out an interesting model for democracy, but it depends critically on permanent war.
It has been a long time since i read the book, but i think the author gives it a fair shake. Nothing really screams unfair representation to me.