RoboCop Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
RoboCop is a 1987 science fiction action movie, directed by Paul Verhoeven, about a cyborg police officer. It is also the name of a comic and television series featuring the same character.The movie is set in Detroit at an undefined future time when violent crime is rife. The megacorporation OCP (Omni Consumer Products) which has privatizated almost everything (even the police) has the answer: a robot policeman. Secretly, their "robot" policeman is actually a cyborg, built around a police officer killed in the line of duty; this causes problems when he begins to remember who he was.
RoboCop was followed by two more movies, and a number of television series.
RoboCop was a dedicated police officer named Alex Murphy, played by Peter Weller. He was married with one son. He transferred to Detroit in order to help the police deal with the ongoing wave of crime among a spree of cop killings in the Old City.
With his new partner, Anne Lewis, he chased after the head of the local mafia, Clarence Boddicker, after a bank robbery. Murphy was killed in action.
OCP (multinational corporation Omni Consumer Products, which effectively runs the Detroit police force) had a new idea following the failure of its ED209 policebot project. Instead of putting a computer-controller in their robot they would use a human brain to run the system.
Because of Murphy's high profile and recent death, his brain was chosen to be the center of the new cyborg. His brain, face, and other organic parts were attached to a life-support system in a human-like titanium body. This cyborg was named RoboCop. His organic right hand had been destroyed when Murphy was killed, which made it necessary to fashion a replacement. While the surgeons were able to save the left arm, OCP officials decided to instead give him an entirely artificial body. The left arm was then removed.
RoboCop's external-skeleton is made out of titanium and is coated with kevlar, rendering him bullet-proof. It can even deflect light explosives under specific conditions. His hands and legs are enhanced by hydraulic motors enable him to crush a human throat with his grip and break through concrete walls. His hands were capable of exerting 420 foot pounds (569 Nm) of torque, which would be enough to crush every bone in a human hand.
RoboCop is equipped with an enhanced Beretta semi-automatic pistol, with .57 caliber and burst mode. When he is not using his pistol he stores it in a retractable holster built into his right thigh. Before his death Murphy would mimic his son's favourite television show hero, TJ Laser, by spinning his gun around his index finger and holstering it, a trait which he continues to use as RoboCop. RoboCop also has an automated targeting system, thus making him an excellent sharpshooter.
RoboCop also has several useful features such as thermal vision, voice recognition and a video recorder. He can also access computers - such as the police department's computers and some of OCP's systems - directly using a retractable input/output jack built into his right hand. The jack is in the form of sharp spike which also makes it a suitable emergency hand to hand weapon.
RoboCop also had a radio transmitter built into him. This enabled OCP and government officials to be aware of his location at all times. It also enabled computerized dispatching programs to communicate with RoboCop and make him aware of situations requiring his presence.
RoboCop is programmed to follow three prime directives:
In the second movie, OCP officials had attempted to modify RoboCop's programming by adding over 100 new directives. This seriously impaired RoboCop's ability to perform his duties. RoboCop himself eventually erased the new directives by overloading his electrical systems.
While at first no one outside a few OCP employees knew who RoboCop was, eventually a few clues surfaced that revealed who RoboCop had originally been. Former partner Anne Lewis realized that RoboCop was Murphy after he used his trademark holstering technique. She confronted RoboCop, who had just had a flashback about his final moments with "Murphy - it's you." When Emil - played by Paul McCrane - heard RoboCop say, "Dead or Alive, you're coming with me" he also realized who RoboCop actually was. Emil then yelled back, "You're dead! We killed you!" At the end of the first film, when the OCP CEO asked RoboCop what his name was, RoboCop replied, "Murphy," having regained his identity.The fictional character
A fourth directive, which he was programmed to be unaware of unless it became relevant, rendered him physically incapable of placing any OCP employee under arrest. In the first movie it made him unable to act against corrupt Vice-President Richard 'Dick' Jones until Jones was fired. During the second movie he was unable to act against OCP officials even though he knew that they had committed crimes. In the third movie, when RoboCop became a member of the resistance against OCP, the fourth directive was finally erased.