This is not actually Murphy's face. Most likely they made a mould of Murphy after his brain had been removed, which was then used to craft a synthetic replacement. This face serves two functions, 1, it helps public relations, giving the impression to the general public that Robocop is more like a knight in armour than a total robot, and 2. Gives what remains of Robocop's human psychology a familiar face to look at and keep him from going insane.Most likely Murphy's brain isn't even in the head and probably in the chest where it would be most protected. Shooting him in the mouth would not kill Robocop.
>>219456215He has his face, hand and some organs
>>219456283The remake version has that. The original has a brain, possibly a heart (most like it was replaced with an artificial pump) and a rudimentary digestive system, maybe a liver/kidneys.
>>219456215You should watch the movie. It refutes your claims.
>>219456385No it doesn't. It's also stated more clearly in Robocop 2, showing the face is cold."They made this, to honor him."
The first Robocop is one of the best films of the 80s, but for some reason it seems to be impossible to make more than one good Robocop film. Everything else in the franchise is trash, and Rogue City is not the glittering success that fanboys have claimed. Apparently Verhoeven is the only man who can make this material work.
>>219456510No it was chill in his room
>>219456521Robocop 2 was hampered by being rushed into production and 3 was neutered by Orion trying to go broader with the appeal.>Rogue City is not the glittering success that fanboys have claimed.Rogue City is awesome.
>>219456215But Murphy is in there. Thats the point. You are autistic OP.
>>219456215>Most likely Murphy's brain isn't even in the head and probably in the chest where it would be most protectedIf they were smart they would put it in his bum. American's love bums more than life itself for some reason, so they're least likely to shoot someone there. Its called unconscious bias.
>>219456521Remake was better.
>>219456633>But Murphy is in there. Thats the point.I'm not disagreeing, I just wanted to start a Robocop thread with an interesting point.
>>219456591>Rogue City is awesome.I'm glad you're able to enjoy it, but the supporting cast ruin it for me. Peter Weller performs Robocop astonishingly well after all these years, but the other actors are consistently disappointing. At one point you meet the Old Man from OCP, and it's someone doing a risibly poor impression.
>>219456665Said no one ever.
>>219456719>At one point you meet the Old Man from OCP, and it's someone doing a risibly poor impression.Well yeah, I think the only actors in it aside from Weller that give good performances are the chick voicing Lewis, the main villain, the OCP exec, the paranoid homeless dude, and the cop that constantly thinks about food. But it's a mid-budget studio, so they were probably hiring the cheap guys. But the writing is still really good, they did a great job with the satire and humour, and there is plenty of gore (especially if you unlock the weapon upgrade that adds more gore).
>>219456215they almost salvaged his other arm but the ocp guy said remove it. I'm sure they were able to salvage his face
This guy was funny in Naked Lunch
>>219456521Some things don’t need a sequel.
>>219456521release the sneeder cut
>>219456665Many are saying this.
>>219456385It literally looks like they stretched his skin over a metallic frame. I doubt its even real flesh, probably some ballistic resistant synthetic material.
>want to make a machine human hybrid>pick a boomer brain that fires neurons at half speed from its peakMakes zero sense, I am glad remake fixed this
>>219457121>I'm sure they were able to salvage his faceIt's not that they couldn't, it's that they didn't want to. It's easier to make a synthetic face made out of a durable material that can be replaced if damaged. Remember Robo gets caught in a massive explosion in the film and there is no sign of tissue damage to the flesh.
>>219457306It was interesting that in the remake the brain was the bottleneck for the entire system and they had to skip the "validation" process to make robocop component. The remake really did improve most stuff. I also liked how he was more human in remake, even though some of it was an illusion. OP claims that they added a face to make public accept him but they didn't really try making him human otherwise while that was a key point in remake
>>219457336well if it was one of the only things they could recover then it's already been shown to be a tough face
>>219457386Well he only got shot in the head once. Which is kind of insane considering how many shotgun rounds he took, you'd think at least one pellet would have gone high.
>>219456215If OCP gave Robocop an artificial face, then I have to wonder why they would model it on Murphy's face. They could have given him a new face, and it would have been more practical to do so. In giving him Murphy's face they cause discomfort for his colleagues in the police department, and greatly increase the chance of him breaking his programming and reclaiming his human identity. So why do that?>2. Gives what remains of Robocop's human psychology a familiar face to look at and keep him from going insane.No, it makes him much more likely to go insane. It's an aggravating link to the latent humanity trapped within the cyborg. This is not the ideal situation for OCP, and that's why I think they had to use Murphy's real face for whatever reason.
>>219456521>Rogue City is not the glittering success that fanboys have claimedOh my God, thank you. I was so confused playing that game for the first time after all the praise it got. It's just another low quality FPS with a Robocop skin. I guess the standards of gaming has gone down a lot in the last decade.
>>219457681They probably own his likeness rights along with his corpse, making a face from scratch could potentially open OCP up to a lawsuit. They wiped his memories but he has a lifetime of looking at his own face, that maps the pathways in your brain, keeping Murphy's face would have a soothing aspect on an unconscious level, because the brain would think "yes, I am trapped in the machine, but I am still ME in here."
I wonder if RoboCop can take NUKE? Just shoot that shit up his nose into his brain and kill his assDon't think cyborgs can take drugs? RoboCop 2.0 fucking loved the stuff!
>>219456215They shot him in the ding-dong
>>219457944I love this film, but I am morally against shooting guys in the dick.
>>219456283That body horror scene from the remake was so traumatising for me as a kid lol.
>>219458075>so traumatising for me as a kidMFW when the original Robocop was what I watched as a kid and reading this comment.
>>219456283This scene was not comfy at all
>>219458260This scene proves that Joel Kinnaman can actually act.
>>219458318The lengths he went to as well, to be respected
>>219458218I watched the original as a kid, and I'd say that if anything in the film is harmful to a child brain, it's not the gore and violence, it's the pessimism. It depicts a world of cutthroat capitalism where everyone is an evil bastard, from the slick suits of OCP to the underclass maniacs on the streets. The city is a warzone, and the ivory tower of OCP is just another kind of warzone. The film takes a very negative view of the future, a future that reflects our own present time.
>>219458383It wasn't supposed to be a documentary
>>219458383I'm saying that the idea that someone watching the 2014 film as a kid makes me feel old. Let alone the fact that the film is 12 years old at this point.
>>219456215Then why would they sculpt the whole faceOnly a handful of people will ever see more than his mouth
>>219458434It kinda was though. It was critiquing Reaganomics, yuppie culture, and entertainment being dumbed down to entertain idiots with no attention span.The "I'd buy that for a dollar!" show (It's Not My Problem!) is supposed to be the mass hit sitcom that everyone thinks is wildly hilarious, but the episodes themselves only last a few minutes and just involve a lot of tits and the character spouting his catchphrase. The fact it's just become more accurate with time is horrifying.
>>219458527In case he needs to look at himself, or to help the technicians not be horrified by him. Hell maybe they though there was a chance they might need to walk him out onto a late night talk show and could just put a wig on him.
>>219457223jej
>>219456215>Shooting him in the mouth would not kill Robocop.Yes, because there's a metal skull underneath.In most continuities, the face is considered to be his real one (hence the hole in the forehead from the gunshot wound), but other than that, there's not a lot of organic material aside from some organs.
