I know you're dead, but we're really understaffed today.
I know you're dead, but we're really understaffed today.
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I thought that was a major point of the movie.
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I agree.
The whole film was dripping-wet with satire, pointing out flaws in the society of the US and Detroit in particular (at the time). OP's remark is just one of many such beats in the film. We're supposed to be both entertained but also moved to do something about how f--ed the situation outside the theatre has become.
Decades later, after hearing this premise break the sound-barrier as it flew over everyone's head multiple times, the good people of Detroit tried to raise a statue of RoboCop in his honor.
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It is planned to be displayed in 2024, at an undetermined location.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_statue
It's happening!
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Third, unethical business practices such as complete disregard for humanity and human life. Also, profiteering the militarization of police and the war on drugs was the core theme of the movies. I'm honestly surprised to find out there are people who didn't get it.
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The 2014 remake made sense to me... it was a remake by Omnicorp. They evil corporations won, then they remade Robocop as a 'no blood' 12a. It was a super-dark play on the fact that they couldn't make the original anymore. [edit: added date & link to imdb]
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Detroit Jesus died for your sins, was reborn.
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Not only that but he's also property now.
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Why yes, yes it has been several weeks since I last watched Robocop. Why, do you wanna watch it with me right now?
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Bertolt Brecht has a poem about a dead soldier who is sent to the front again
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On the bright side didn't he get to shoot one of his supervisors in one of them?
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tchnically not. the guy had just been fired seconds before
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Cut off an extra arm just for consistency
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Wow its Robert Cop!!
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The truly unbelievable part of Robocop is that he was given a directive to protect the innocent.
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This is what will happen to us if they ever figure out how to upload consciousness.
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If I have to go to work anyway sign me up. It sounds like the ideal employee/employer relationship
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Bad example .... they invested billions of dollars worth of tech to get this employee back on the job
In real life ... they make no investment in their employees, yet they expect them to work at full efficiency even if they are missing a limb or an organ
If it wasn’t for the smell, they’d weekend at bernies your corpse in the Walmart if would make them a buck.
I'm picturing a Walmart greeter corpse on strings like a marionette...
I think OCP was trying to win private policing contracts in other cities. If they could offer robocops, a LEO who produced measurable better results over traditional police departments they could get more contracts.
So it wasn't really an investment in a worker it was a tech demonstration.
Wasn’t the point that the actual robots produced by the corp that made him were unwanted and mistrusted by the public, so they took an almost dead cop and rebuilt him as a human looking robot to popularize the tech?
They didn’t invest in him they just bought a corpse for marketing purposes and made it a robot with a face.
You just made me realize that the real life equivalent of the Robocop Films would actually have the bad guys plans work way better because manipulating the public into wildly unethical decisions through disingenuous tech hype is super effective.
All of that investment was offset by government grants and tax write offs.
No, no, no. Remember, ihe wasn't some super soldier saving a nation, just a police officer. Here's an example of Robocop funding...
https://lemmy.world/post/11955175