Robocop The world premiere

What's on the tape

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0:04 The scene in a truly iconic film quotes from the movie were commonplace in almost every classroom and personally they're saying I buy that for a dollar. And don't move creep I'd be in detention more times than I care to remember. Year is 2028 and when alex murthy is injured in line of duty omni core seizes the opportunity to build the ultimate crime-fighting. Part-man part robot all badass cop the original for me I mean I think that would be more joel would have felt like that jose maine. Felt like that even in their confidence but I you know because they're both very confident artists but for me that you know the original ellen.

1:02 Murphy was more a figment of his um my imagination so I didn't have to recreate I just had the ability to create. My baby too slow boy. The original movie was a classic for a reason and the reason is was a very smart film it has on its score a character that was built out of philosophical. Idea you have a man fighting against machine inside a single organism and that is a metaphor for the risks of the automatization of violence when you remove. Criticism from whomever is a police officer or soldier and replacing soldier soldiers by robots does that so I was working from a great idea which doesn't. Put it's not a it's it's a blessing not a curse so I was happy I would be really scared if I had to reboot a bad movie. Bear having created a very specific.

1:54 And jose's created a very specific. So the characters live in different worlds and they have very different journeys so um you know of course there's uh you know there's a lot of expectations. From the fans of the so I mean that that played a part of it but I was also a huge fan of the original so that kind of came. With came with I put that pressure on myself. Coming with me.