“When you take away all this, what remains?” : Robocop and Total Recall’s Remains have disappointed this movie legend

In 1987, Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoven, whose career began in the 1960s, shot his second English-language film Robocop, a film that quickly made him a famous American viewer. He also followed this success: Total Reminding in 1990 with Arnold Schwarzenegger – who almost played Robocop, as I told you here.

About twenty years later, these two films became a much less successful remake subject: Len Waisimen in 2012, along with Colin Farrell, with total memoir programs, and two years later, Robocop Jose Padilha with Joel Kinaman.

Very tragic Robocop?

Speaking to Metrograph in 2024, Paul Verhoven They were asked about these attempts to modernize his films and present a clear analysis of why they thought they could not fit the originals.

He explained that the 2014 Robocop made the protagonist much more tragic: “The problem, in my opinion, is that he really knew that he had lost all his legs and all his hands. He knows this from the beginning. How beautiful it is in the original Robocop, which allows it to simply not be a tragedy, is that I don’t know anymore “He said.

“It has some confusing flashes of memories whenMeI’m back in his old house but Robocop not‘Not a tragic character. Of course, he was killed in a horrific form at the beginning of the film. But when we find it as a robot, he doesn’t feel like that.

In the new movie, as everything remembers, it is much more tragic. We wanted to agree from the beginning as a robot police officer. (…) From my point of view he‘There was a problem‘Make it a more tragic hero.”

And the total recall then?

As for Total Remember” Paul Verhoven Condemned that the version Len Waisimen Fully missed the mystery of his own film.

“There were many special effects, but I didn’t feel this secret anymore, is it all real? The interesting thing in the original film is that at the end, when Rachel Tikotin says, “Kiss me quickly before you wake up”, you still don’t know whether it’s real or not. We also had an incredible composer, Jerry Goldsmith. I was really happy with the piano topics. When we take all this,‘Does it remain?”

The original Robocop and Total Recall can still see on Vod. To make your own opinion on remake: Total Recall Mémoires Programmées can also be viewed on Vod, while Robocop (2014) is available on Netflix.