RoboCop (1987)
Behind the Scenes
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Storyline: In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
Directed: Paul Verhoeven
Writing Credits: Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner
Cast: Peter Weller (Alex Murphy / RoboCop), Nancy Allen (Lewis), Dan O'Herlihy (The Old Man), Ronny Cox (Jones), Kurtwood Smith (Clarence), Miguel Ferrer (Morton), Robert DoQui (Sgt. Reed), Ray Wise (Leon), Felton Perry (Johnson), Paul McCrane (Emil)
Production Companies:
Orion Pictures
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My grandparents took me to see this when I was 12 yrs old. Granny loved it. I'm now 47 and Robocop is a timeless masterpiece
Clever grandparents! Lucky you! I’m the only one in my family who is in love with this movie. All the others think that it’s just a stupid robot action movie. So annoying
@@ilconteorlok9299 they have no taste
robocop is like a good frankenstein
Still as good as the day it was made and released in the cinema, in cinema's when there was still a smoking section!!!
No they did not
Can we just take a moment to appreciate all the special effects, matte painters, stop motion animators, etc... that put so much blood, sweat, and tears into this masterpiece of a movie.
When MEN made movies. Not kids, not women, not pansies. Men, using their creativity and hard work to tell an interesting story. We've almost completely lost that.
They sure put a LOT of blood into it
80s movies still gold. They're real movie magic.
you cant beat the 80s.
@kim Jong-unsub im not necessarily talking about movies my friend :) i mean in general.
although there were a number of great movies in there own right :) there turrning to mostly remakes these days.
i should have made that more clear that is my fault i apologise.
Yes, thankfully some movies still live up to the practical effects of the 80s.
Little did they know they were making (personal opinion) one of the greatest films of all time.
it's always like that (1983) "Scarface"
one of the most iconic movies made .
I'll buy that for a dollar.
There's more hair DOWN THERE!! 100% best film in my lifetime so far.
Agreed
Miguel Ferrer's so underappreciated. Traffic, Twin Peaks, even great in Hot Shots and Deep Star Six!
He was amazing. Gone way too soon. Also, he was really close to Jennifer Love Hewitt, apparently.
He was great as Carl Quigley in Blank Check! A greedy, sinister character!
Don't forget Steven King's The Stand mini series.
@@BillkwandoJLH?! That's a connection I've never heard of. 😅
A sci fi classic that is still relevant to this day.
MK 11 says it all. ✌👍
Yeah, Detroit already looks like the movie
Watch the movie "Upgrade" kinda a ripoff but still pretty good
@@tomaiken903 g
These are our future killers
He wasn't just killed, they crucified him. One of the most brutal death scenes ever filmed IMO.
That scene was very disturbing to me a a teen.
@@ashdoglsu i was 11 in 1987 and loved that scene!!
And at the he walks on water. Jesus references all over the place. :D
Only surpassed by the scene where ED-209 obliterated that young executive in the boardroom!
I was 4 years old, loving the scene going nenene ;D My fav movie along with terminator.. Just in recent years seen the director's cut, and only then did I realize how brutal it all actually was.
RIP Miguel Ferrer, aka "Bob Morton". You might have been cashed out but your performance will always be one of the most memorable in this movie. Robocop was full of character actors giving their all - it makes the movie feel so rich and full. And DAMN he was a good-looking dude in his early 30s here... I'm so used to seeing him as an old man I sometimes forget that was a handsome man back in the day LOL
Sucks that he had throat cancer
Great actor,real professional
YEahhhh
He was also in 1989 Deepstar Six. Good actor.
@@legrandgougoulilumine6940 I always remember him best from Hotshots Part Deux.
Wow.. this was a great movie. RIP Miguel Ferrer.
Damn he passed? RIP.
I love him in Night Flier...creepy movie
Miguel Ferrer was a super talented performer. Of course, he had a head-start of sorts. His parents were the superb actor Jose Ferrer and wonderful singer/actress Rosemary Clooney.
@@jamesfeldman4234 And cousin to George.
@@craignelson9045 Brilliant movie the ending is very freaky
Robocop was one of the best movies I've seen as a child. The 80's were a blast! Cinema days were so powerful then, because you only had a VHS version, no pirated downloads and nowhere to get a descent copy but to watch it on cinema alone.
@@ThunderAppeal i agree with you but tbh that is quite exaggerating but yeah movies are good just because they are good, not because they are from some era, if they are good in 100bc it will still be good in present day, just different tastes since tastes are according to era and time, nostalgia effect can really amplify the actual ratings of some stuff, take gaming for example, there are still obviously people saying doom in the 90s is better than doom now, that is false in terms of gameplay and graphics, and i am one of the ones playing doom on its early days on voodoo stuff.
@@ThunderAppeal who you mad at 😂😂😂
Very true, it´s one of those movies that most idiots can´t see past the action scenes and the violence, so since they are too thick to understand the subtle satire in it, they call it a shitty action movie. But the way Verhoeven satires and criticizes corporate America, the neo-liberalism of the 80´s, the difference between the several layers of society. It´s pure genius and a kind of movie nobody makes anymore because they are too scared of losing money at the box office.
@connextro I was old enough and I loved movies and effects, as I do now. But thanks for the comment, I'm a pretty grown man now, and those days were unforgettable. So many good movies, so little time...
I feel u I copped the unrated version in 4k last year (it's actually my third copy cuz I love the movie so much lol) and when I watch it it's so crystal clear and the fps go up immensely almost like it's in fast forward I can't help to think like wow when I seen this as a kid it never looked this good even in the movie theaters and it did look great but u ain't seen how good RoboCop 1 is until u see it in 4k on a 60' it almost looks fake like it's been redone with CGI even though it's all practical effects that's just how good the special effects team was for this film
It was the violence that blew us away. Every gun scene was amped up and extended well beyond anything at the time. This guy pushed the limits but with a sense of humour. Big shout to Kurtwood Smith and Ronnie Cox!
"Dead or alive, you're coming with me". 11/10/20
I honestly thought it was Peter Weller in the death of Murphy scene. NOT a puppet.. Good Lord, man!! That is the "movie magic"!
Better than cgi!!!!🙌
Me too!!!!
Incredible! I fully acknowledge CGI's relevance, but it should be supported by on set physical objects and practical effects.
I can tell it's not him when he leans back, almost looks like a warewolf.
@@Blackheart_Rises im sure thats why they edited it out in the theatrical version. It looked too fake.
Peter Weller was brilliant. Imagine making a movie like this today. Impossible. The 80s were the best!
This movie was made with a level of "Realism" that we don't have in our days.
True, for example, how did they make the shockwave happen on his hair when they shot him in the brain?
Oh I just saw it was a dummy.
Yep...much more realistic than anything from today...the Ed introduction sequence is still awesome
Practical special effects; a dying art.
Miss the old days without CGI.
Agreed, CGI can really ruin a movie. This movie will always have a nostalgic place with me
90% of the CGI you see you don't even know is there, so don't give me this "good old days" crap.
When the directors and actors are involved in every scene insteads of being told to pretend or outright reprlaced with CGI it has definetely taken a lot away from the quality of movies we have today that is for sure. Hardly anything in this movie was CGI but practical effects same with all those great movies from the 80's. They remake these today and they are a shadow or outright terrible compared. The remake they did of Robocop was just terrible and I can't even remember anything about it.
@@Syklonus 🤣😂 I can spot CGI any time.
@@Syklonus maybe, but still that 10% is awful.
The Murphy murder scene is amazing. I’m really surprised that it was a puppet. Looked so real. 80s movie man. Real filmmaking 👏🏾
It's 2020 and the suit doesn't look even a day old!
because the suit wasn't a day old when they filmed this 🤨
@@Gideon_Judges6 I think he means aesthetically. As in it hasn't become dated over time, it still looks futuristic and cool.
The equipment in the background does. Looks like props from a bad 60s space movie.
Facts
@@toastedjoe1013 the suit designer and set designer were of different generations probably
3:46 Now I understand why Peter Weller went on to get a PHd in Italian Renaissance Art History - he was clearly a step above the rest of the cast and crew in terms of intelligence and insight
“I’d buy that for a dollar “.
I'd buy that for 50c :p
VoxRox1 hahahaaaaaaa i remember that miss the 80 s
Now that's got to be the line of the movie - Pure gold!
LOL.. I'd pay 2.00
Based
No CGI can beat these handmade effects
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na.. na-na-na-na-na-na-na *BOOM*
That’s debatable.
@Lee Johnstone Now that I agree with. I believe that CGI works best when you can't tell its being used, which is usually when incorporated with practical effects as you said. I just don't agree with the notion that CGI is inferior to handmade, practical effects. Both have their limitations, but work wonders when combined.
@Lee Johnstone I'm aware that Nolan only uses CGI when he has to, and that's one of the ways how CGI can work at its best, because it's usually encorporated with practical effects so that it blends in, rather than sticking out like a sore thumb, like the over abundance of CGI in Marvel movies.
@@shrunkensimon 😂😂😂
remember, those guys, both actors and director, took a script called Robocop and turned it into one of the greatest and absolutly timeless masterpiece of cinema.
re-watched it a couple of days ago. Still a masterpiece.
This movie is in my top 10 of all time, maybe even top 5.
Who else imagined the sounds of Robocop moving at the beginning of the clip?
I did.
Me too
Holy fuck I thought I was the only one. My brain just basically played the sounds out for him. XD
Hell yeah I did
It sounded waaaaay better! In the theaters😉☝️
I remember my dad renting this, thinking it would be a cheesy, cartoon-style violence type film. Imagine being us kids and seeing the Hard R-rated violence, f-bombs and gore and we were expecting to see something in the vein of Knight Rider. Its still an amazing film. I can look at it now as a classic, unsurpassed by its countless sequels and rip-offs.
What was your reaction being a kid and watching Robocop?
@ How bloody and violent it was. I wasn't prepared for that. As a kid I loved stiff like Transformers and when even younger I enjoyed The Six Million dollar Man. Prior to seeing it I assumed it would be a sort of combination of those two things. A man gets shot down and is brought back, only now with super-powers, fighting crime as a cyborg. Never did I think it would be this RAW. I was even more surprised at how tragic they played it. It might be weird for people today, but seeing that "Coming Soon" poster with a cartoonish name like ROBOCOP (almost sounds like Robotech), we thought it would be something like a live-action cartoon. NOTHING prepared us for what it was!
Dude! Same thing happened at my house! I was 8. It was instantly my favorite movie, still is to this day. Hell, my parents took me to see Robocop 2 in theaters when I was 10, lol.
Same.here... i have to say I still remember some of the more gorier parts.... It was shocking in a bad way. I haven't watched RoboCop since then and I am not sure I want to... and I am in the 40's
@@yusepbcn hell a family friend a Dallas Cop no less got me a uncensored bootleg copy of the movie when I was 10 back in 1988 , ,said he was assigned crowd control during the actual filming ( first Robocop was filmed at various locations in downtown Dallas TX) as a 10 year old I freaking loved it , , , one of my favorite moments was " Give the man a hand" , , , years later I bought Robocop 1 and 2 on DVD 📀 for perfect image quality , , you should watch film again a few times if it scared you so women won't think of you as a weenie, , " come on SAL the Tigers are playing tonight" 😋😋
Paul Verhoeven took a script titled Robocop and turned it into a piece of beautiful artwork. That's taking lemons and making lemonade.
They really don't make them like they used to in the 80's: RoboCop, T2, Predator, The Thing. Movies with balls!
Don't forget Commando! The manliest movie I've ever seen
now thanx to agenda they wanna replace those with female characters
T2 was made in the 90s but ok
You forgot about Predator.
@@Julianimator Ummm, no I'm pretty sure I included Predator.
We need a robocop out there in 2020
Lol imagine if it were to malfunction and sets it targets on all pedestrians 🤣
Looks like OCP is much more likely 😱
guess we need more then one.....-/
but not like the garbage remake version...these 2014 version was awefull
Cool that you didn’t get the satire of the film
I think the series of events/problems that lead up to Verhoeven ending up directing this were a blessing. It ended up a classic the way he did it. Even though all the actors while doing it thought it was going to be a total joke. One of the greats of the 80s, love it still
Murphy getting blown away point blank with 12 gage pump action shot guns is still disturbing 33 years later.
"Shit, I'm out of ammo!!!" 😃
something that i love , is the fact that when you see peter weller playing robocop , you don't see peter weller playing robocop , you just see robocop himself ! one of the best actor ever
Same thing with judge dredd in the 2012 movie. Karl urban never takes the helmet off once.
@@mr_indie_fan totally agree, he nailed it !
Paul Verhoven is one of the best directors of the 20th century, his films have made a greater cultural impact than many other more popular film makers.
Showgirls, baby! j/k
These prostetics scared the heck out of me - brilliantly done!
RIP Miguel Ferrer.
War, it's Fantastic!
Real special effects, real gun shots,real people. Today we have CGI,modern movies looks like a video game...
Tenet didn’t
@@zaprese nolan hates cgi
Your right they need to use cgi all time in nowaday movies can’t keep it plane and simple like old films
They should not pay these new sctors as much ss thry paid real Movie Stars!
@@richardfoley653 Watch The Dark Crystal : Age of Resistance on Netflix. Old fashioned puppetry revisited. It's magnificent.
The creation of a Masterpiece.
In my top ten movies of all time, I've watched this movie over a 1000 times
Oh man i miss those days without cgi, long live the 80s/90s 🥺
The start really shows you how amazing the lighting, camera worked cinematography was in the actual film. Peter Weller looks small in the suit yet in the movie he looks huge and intimidating.
My dad and I can act this whole movie out! I’m so glad he showed this to me as a kid and got me a action figure! Dads are bad ass!
I didn't remember how many times i saw this video, but it don't matters... This movie is so timeless, so epic, so marvellous... A piece of art!
My favourite film of all time. A classic 💯
Man, this the labor that went into the special effects is a combination of mind-blowing and genius. I love that extra level of realism you get with blood packets, blank cartridges, puppets, prosthetics, etc. CGI just can't capture those fine details, though I think if CGI existed back then, I wouldn't mind putting some of those effects to use in fine-tuning the way ED-209 moved (keep the robot model and stop animation though).
Saw it as a kid and several of the SFX scenes stick with me even today - Murphy's hand blown off and his brains getting blown out, melted Emil, especially when he splatters on a windshield. It left an impression and those scenes still hold up today. The stop motion stuff was a bit hokey even then, but ED-209 is still iconic. It's just a great movie. On the surface it's typical 80's fare: a big boisterous dystopian sci-fi thriller with some Western themes, gratuitous violence, and a bunch of colorful characters. But it's so much more than just that. It's really a classic.
A timeless classic.
Robocop is my favorite movie from my childhood, really interesting behind of camera. thanks for the video. Regards
When actors did most of their own stunts!! awesome.
So much talent from all angles went into this production.
I still believe it hasn't got the recognition it deserves, it is a great movie, and they did an amazing job with a very limited budget. It was done by geniuses.
A film where nearly every line of dialogue is instantly quotable. A brilliant satirising script showing that greed cheapens people’s lives with superb special effects. Extraordinary.
I remeber when I went to the cinema to see this movie. One of the best memories of my childhood, what an awesome movie!!!
Such an amazing film, everything about it. "Dead or alive you're coming with me"
I loved this movie as a kid, but it wasn't until I rewatched it many years later that I could appreciate what a masterpiece it really is. Everything about it is perfect - absolutely deserves to be held up as one of the all time great movies.
Rob Botten is a master of SFX, his work on Robocop and The Thing are fantastic in terms of originality, creativity and realism. That fact that they still hold up today if proof of how effective practical FX are. Its a shame its such an undervalued art nowdays.
He worked on one of my fav classics TOTAL RECALL.
There's something so special about the raw films that I really like. I guess it's all the artwork that it takes and we see on that screen creates a unique feeling like looking at a beautiful or interesting painting.
Man... The memories this brings... I was so invested in this series that bought all the video games I could get my hands on and a poster of Mr. Robo stepping out of his police car... Ah! The nostalgia! I even had a short demo on my Atari ST that had some low frame GIFs in monochrome with sound effects that made it look like snippets of footage from the original movie, the sheer number of times I watched this... Now "I'd buy that for a dollar!"
One of my most favorites movies of all times, work of art. When I was a kid, I imitated the moves the voice - everything from Robocop ^^
A cinematic masterpiece
RIP Miguel. Un très bon acteur est parti. Robocop, Hot Shot 2, NCIS LA. 7 Février 1955 - 19 Janvier 2017 à 61 ans. Tu nous manquera à tous.
Excellent behind the scenes!
Robocop wasn’t just an action film, it was a great film all together
Back when Hollywood was actually good and made good movies 😏
They Focus to make movies now they are politics.
I still think Hollywood's 80s and 90s cost and schedule overruns were what helped make the movies from that era significantly more creative than what we get today.
Hollywood would have butchered this too if they didn't get someone from outside the hollywood machine to direct it. No one else could have made the film Paul Verhoeven, his cast and crew made.
2021 and still this one is one of the best movies ever!
Every time I see Red Foreman, I think, "...nananananana *pow*"
He is and will always be Clarence Boddicker.
I just think of that 70’s show.
@@RRSYSinfo DUMBASS
@@simonl1785 Dumbass Reds favourite saying haha I love it. Play that funky music right now *_Paul, Liverpool UK_*
One of the greatest movie villains ever.
I always thought the blown off hand effect looked kinda curious. Now I see why: it's literally a pre-cut jigsaw hand that's blown away with compressed air.
When filmmaking was an art... Good old days.
one of the best movies ever never got tired of watching it
6:32 the way he looks up with that mustache makes him a legit artist alone
3:00 - Paul V, Simply the very best.
This was one of the most brutal movies ever made at the time.
Probably my most favorite movie ever
Amazing footage never seen this, been studying Robocop for years. Robocop is probably the greatest sci fi action film of all time. Its heart and soul is astonishing. Extraordinary piece of art.
I was way too young when I first witnessed this great film.. the killing of Murphy horrified me. Now it's my favorite action movie of all time!
The satire in this film is pitch-perfect. Always a very welcome watch!
That Peter Weller puppet looks real, even close up. Amazing.
I remembered this as if it was yesterday! Thanks for the video!
I never expected such a thing from this movie and the first impression that comes from the title “Robocop” This really blew my mind, what a masterpiece 👍
One of my favorite classics
When directing, filming and acting were true, masterful artforms. Cinematography taken seriously!
The Murphy death scene is one of the most disturbing scenes in movie history
Yes i was traumatised when i was a Child
What a great team. What a great movie. One of the best and most efficient endings I've seen, too.
the first 50secs of this clip gives me goosebumps.... no movie today can present such feels
This was amazing. Robocop will forever remain a cult classic. The special effects here were amazing.
Bob Morton is Steve Jobs of robotics, very much ahead of his time.
...and now I'm imagining Steve Wozniak sending Clarence Boddicker to kill Steve Jobs, while Jobs is just chilling at home with a couple of hookers.
That's pretty damn incredible! Amazing effects even for the time they were in
I'm watching this movie right now. I was a yr old when this movie came out, still one of my favorite movies.
Never seen this before. Great to see all these new angles and special effects. Loved the Murphy dummy. That looked so real.
That puppet looked so real it would have been a blast to leave it at some random place and watch people's reaction when the see it.
That Rob Bottin was on literally everything worth a damn during the 80s
RIP Miguel Ferrer, great actor. Those effects are still today the best, no Pc for needed.
The injury special effects and squibs in this movie are number ONE.
The old days seeing this on VHS.
'A guy named Stan Lee ." If he only knew what the future held.
@@osbrax Cute backhanded comment , but I was referring to what his characters would become on film and sky rocketing his status......kid. Would think anybody with 2 brain cells would figure that out.
@@osbrax RoboCop was filmed between august 8--and till november 24 , 1986 .
Still one of the best 80's movies that can be watch to this day and piss all over many modern day films.
So cool. It feels like a real life interview. The movie capture you add music and the voices are more into your own ear.
_7:18__ - This scene even seen in making of is still scary and impressive_
*R.I.P Bob!*
Peter Weller done a fantastic job playing Robocop didnt he? Nobody could have done it any better than him !! 👍👍👍👍👍
This is amazing, thank you for posting this 👍👏