Peter Weller Q&A with Harry Knowles 

I wouldnt say underrated, Weller is weller. He was basically always picked and type cast himself as a "generic everyman", not bad not good not amazing but satisfactory. I mean can you think of many other things he's been in where he's been as important as robocop? Leviathan maybe and that was pretty meh and he acted the exact same way in that too lol.

@@CrashHeadroomhe had one BlockBuster Franchise and the rest were very niche roles in great movies. I’d say underrated is fair. we must have two different definitions of the word

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Well I've seen some interviews where he's very blunt about his opinions on certain things, my guess is that people just don't like that.

@@yeetimusprime3147 Yeah but, imagine him after getting fucked over on pay, or when his plane is delayed for 32 hours and he's stuck in the terminal.

He's intellectual, intense and intimidating because of it. But seeing this, he's very gracious and I don't see any kind of ego.

I think that's because the way he addresses people, you can see even in this video. "Got it?" "Understood?" etc etc. Some people might take it as being talked down to. But I mean. He's 70-80. I think he earned the right to skip the pleasantries and what he says is more important than how he says it. I'd totally be able to look past it but I get it if not all people do.

I've always heard good things about him, but you never know until you meet someone personally, there's plenty of people that have taken the NFL QB's course on PR, which is basically "all glory to God, the line made my job easy today, the coaches called all the plays out there, the defense played their hearts out, it's all about the preparation, etc, every QB says that, they can't all mean it, you know some of them want to say "yeah I was fire out there today".

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I can't hear or read "super genius" and not think "Wile E Coyote super genius", lol

No he shouldn´t. Most Grade A films aren´t smart or intellectual at all. He was great in Robocop. I haven´t seen many films with Weller, but he was a real slimeball (in a positive way) as "Liddy" in "Dexter". :)

I know I'm 7 years late, but in someway he is. He produced documentaries.

In the instructions, he looks to the eye and says, "dead or alive your graduating with me"

he's got a PHD

There's an INtro to Film class at Columbia that always gets 10-15 audit students taking it for no credit.

He is a director. He has done several different TV shows, like Sons of Anarchy and Hawaii Five-O.

Isnt it amazing? Basil, man. The Conan soundtrack does me in too.

Crying??lol Get some testosterone therapy sweetie.

he teaches at a college now

@@alexlexusZXpredator really I didn't know that.

+P Ferreira Me too. I'd really like to know. Rewatched it twice, and I still can't tell.

From my information is it scene when RoboCop catches keys from the Sgt. Reed. I think they try it to shoot it so many times, until Peter Weller caught that keys.

Look at the person conducting the Q & A 🤣

@@TTrigg I just did a google search of his name, he seems to be a real piece of work from what I read.

Akhenaten :)

I did some searches and the name is Jean Genet. I found this quote in an interview with Kurt Sutter: "FLEMING: I read you studied classic literature and plays. Is there a storied protagonist Jax is inspired by? SUTTER: Hmm. Obviously the nod to Hamlet is an archetype theme. I’m a big, not to sound pretentious, a big Jean Genet fan. In general. But there was something in his work that fascinated me…also in who he was as an artist. That he had this felonious default, where he couldn’t no matter what he tried to do, he couldn’t escape where he came from, and no matter how famous and celebrated Genet became, he still always lived on the fringe. That fascinated me. That complexity of who he was, as a man. A lot of my heroes struggle with that. And Jax definitely does." deadline.com/2014/08/kurt-sutter-emmys-2014-emmy-awards-live-blog-824397/

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swedd2 I believe he meant that.. Murphy's soul had been buried by software and shock and reprogramming. As much care as they took to make him a purely digital machine, his true soul began to surface on it's own, in the quietness of his own thoughts and subconsciousness it began to break through that wall, *without* any external stimuli. Exposure to his old life wasn't necessary for his spirit to begin fighting against the machine that contained it. Visions and memories of his prior life came pouring back suddenly, and from that point he began a journey to try and connect those memories with reality. It wasn't the physical life that revealed Murphy's soul, it was his soul that first cried out for the truth which lead him to rediscover the physical life he once had.

SGTBizarro Sir, this was an excellent explanation with such precision to my question. Thank you

I'm three years late, but. Borne, not 'born', as in, 'carried out'. Because his soul finally woke up from its metaphysical sleep, it's reawakening his own personal traits like his physical habits. Think of it like trauma: someone so profoundly affected that they became a husk of who they'd been before, and as they heal, that submerged self reappears and that lost spark of life returns, which leads to them returning to things they enjoyed doing before the traumatic event.

@@neoqwerty I think it's symbolically a bit deeper than that. They tried to ERASE a man. This isn't trauma, this is someone killing you, reaching into your mind, and trying to delete that too. This goes beyond trauma, or even murder. How you can minimize it as 'sleep' is missing a strong element of the film. It isn't a spark of life, it is, for all intents, a rebirth. The ONLY THING comparable to what happened to Murphy is the day you were born. There was nothing there. There were no memories, there were no names, no history. You didn't exist, and suddenly you did. With a new body, a new life.

@@Krystalmyth I was paraphrasing Verhoeven explaining how important it was that Murphy's body "remembered" the gun-spinning and that action literally waking his soul up. There's huge religious symbolism and a philosophy that I forgot the name of involved with this too, and it's been like a year since I commented so I can't for the life of me remember where I found Verhoeven explaining it or really describe it in more poetic and natural language. I'd call it a "paused/suspended state" but that isn't accurate, either. Sleep is closer: haven't you ever dreamed you were someone else, completely divorced from your true self, before? And then woke up because of something in your body "tugging" you back to awareness? (Also trauma *can* cause a cessation of existence of at least the former personality, either through physical damage or bad enough mental trauma, to pick your nits as you've nitpicked me, heh.) I'm not gonna argue that I suck at explaining it but I will protest that I've missed the rebirth part (at least, I didn't miss it once it was pointed out to me while I was trying to express why the original and the 2014 remake were so tonally different even if you disregard the satire and parody of the era's culture). What I'm missing is probably more the era's culture parody and satire, as I'm only about as old as the movie and from Canada. I'm incredibly happy that you care enough about the movie to 1) find this video and 2) debate and correct another fan though!

Knock yourself out, Johnson :)

Tastes like baby food.

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