Verhoeven was explicit about painting America as Nazi Germany so fuck him, too.
He had the movie in mind already, he skinned ST and put it over the movie as a skin suit. He admits that he never read the book.
If he did, he would know that service to the government guarantees nothing but franchise, and the military was not the only route to serve. One of Johnny's friends that signs up with him winds up on Pluto doing research as a civilian.
Being a dumb far left pod person, his movie went past indictment into total satire, and I bet it chaps his ass every day that people laugh at it.
The most telling change is the knife training scene. In the book, one recruit asks why they are learning knife fighting when they have tactical nukes, and the instructor explains the importance of being capable of responding appropriately no matter the level of violence required - a folly we see today with female police officers who are incapable of challenging a criminal physically and so have no tools between "ask for cooperation" and "shoot him."
In the movie the instructor instead stabs the recruit in the hand for wanting to understand why the training was important, because Verhoeven is a troglodyte.
It's a shame because Robocop was really a classic (and the dystopian future-Detroit of the 80s is idyllic compared to the reality) but if it was remade today all the gang members and drug dealers would be gudboi dindunuffins
And that's why the book should be taught in schools. Heinlein was prescient, and actually understood our history and national design, and the book is a long argument for a corrective change to our system. Our representative republic was never meant to have universal voting by every retarded clown that wants to be ruled.
He had the movie in mind already, he skinned ST and put it over the movie as a skin suit. He admits that he never read the book.
If he did, he would know that service to the government guarantees nothing but franchise, and the military was not the only route to serve. One of Johnny's friends that signs up with him winds up on Pluto doing research as a civilian.
Being a dumb far left pod person, his movie went past indictment into total satire, and I bet it chaps his ass every day that people laugh at it.
The most telling change is the knife training scene. In the book, one recruit asks why they are learning knife fighting when they have tactical nukes, and the instructor explains the importance of being capable of responding appropriately no matter the level of violence required - a folly we see today with female police officers who are incapable of challenging a criminal physically and so have no tools between "ask for cooperation" and "shoot him."
In the movie the instructor instead stabs the recruit in the hand for wanting to understand why the training was important, because Verhoeven is a troglodyte.
It's a shame because Robocop was really a classic (and the dystopian future-Detroit of the 80s is idyllic compared to the reality) but if it was remade today all the gang members and drug dealers would be gudboi dindunuffins
The gangs will all be huwite
Would he be evil because ACAB or good because he shot Jan 6 Magaterrorists?
Still evil, but they are very tolerant when the evil works as their enforcer
And that's why the book should be taught in schools. Heinlein was prescient, and actually understood our history and national design, and the book is a long argument for a corrective change to our system. Our representative republic was never meant to have universal voting by every retarded clown that wants to be ruled.