What OCP did to Alex Murphy’s body 

You can’t put a man into a machine and then complain that he still makes humane decisions. Alex Murphy is a star graduate, a devout catholic, and a caring father. All reports say he has a great sense of duty. He was the first and the most successful candidate in the Robocop program.

Just Imagine his actual trauma, being absolutely destroyed mentally and physically and waking up in a robotic body. He's still in there and he cannot do anything about it. I honestly think it's the most tragic Sci fi movie in history.

The next time you think your job is bad, just remember, he straight up died and they still made him go to work. 😅

Hats off to Peter Weller who completely brought Robocop to life.

I like how his voice was modulated and his body had a hum to it when he's first introduced. But as movie progressed those two effects slowly diminish, indicating his humanity coming back. In his old home when he's remembering his family, specifically his wife, even his iconic walking thump is absent. That moment it just sounds like a person with heavy boots walking.

The scariest and saddest part for me was when he first wakes up and all he can do is just watch, especially when they nonchalantly say they’re gonna erase his memory in front of him and he cant do anything

Of course Robocop feels emotions by the end. He states he feels his family, and he also makes the decision to kill Boddicker rather than arrest him. If he was only driven by his sense of duty, he would’ve arrested him. The whole point of the film is that he gets his humanity back by the end, after coming to terms with what he now is and isn’t.

Robocop was such a cool movie..real hard hitting & futuristic..one of the all time bests..

Peter Weller is the only man that can play Robocop, to be fair to Robert Burke he done good job but Weller is the best.

Alex Murphy is the most tragic character in all SF universe.

If you think that Darth Vader's life is awfull take a look at Robocop. At least Vader is still 50% human. In Robocop's case there's only 1% humanity left.

What made Alex Murphy work as RoboCop: He was mentally tough-he knowingly replaced a dead police officer (Frank Frederickson) while in the locker room. AND fearlessly pursued Boddicker's gang. He was physically tough-not only was he alive after being shot, he was still fully conscious before receiving the death blow to the head. He was spiritually tough-besides his Catholic faith; his last thought was his wife and son waving goodbye (for the final time) as he drove away.🚓

The fact the put Murphy's face on the Robocop body so that Murphy's brain could process and adjust to his new Robo life also explains why OCP's future Robopeople failed. None of them had their face...well and then they used Cain of all people, which was equally a bad decision.

Both Robocop and Spawn are the most tragic characters. One is a police officer One was a soldier Both were killed by mad men, screwed over by their creators for their own benefits, and the only thing they have left is memories of their past lives. Though they can never return to be human beings again, they manage to avenge their deaths and permanently end their creators for good.

At 8:45, Robocop turned to his friends and said, "Are we cops?" He takes a deep breath before saying it. I think this is evidence for the existence of the lungs. He takes a deep breath. Maybe based on this scene they showed the lungs in RoboCop (2014).

36 years later and this movie still holds up strong.

I think he had lungs & heart in the original,the producers didn't wanted to go to the scale explaining so much in order to have you in the thought if murphy is a machine or not!

The fourth directive causes him to shut down if he attempts to arrest a senior OCP employee. In the original when he tries to arrest Dick Jones he's fighting the shut down procendure from Directive Four. Whether he was feeling pain while doing it is debatable. The one scene where he does feel extreme pain is when Clarence Boddicker stabs him in the chest with the iron bar at steel mill. And of course there are few scenes he Robocop 2 where he does feel pain. The first being when Cain's gang are pulling him apart and as you mention throughout the scenes when he's in pieces. Even in the scene where he electrocutes himself you can clearly see the expression of pain in his mouth as he grits his teeth. I believe this could be because of the fact he also has his spine intact which of course carries a lot nerve signals to his brain.

Peter Weller deserved an Oscar.

To me, Peter Weller will always be RoboCop. Love the first two films, especially the original. Can't wait for Rogue City video game coming soon!!

the OG robocob had the brain, an artificial heart, lungs, a piece liver, a kidney a a trimmed digestive system, all crammed in the torso. the remake had the head (without the top) spinal cord, traquea, lungs, heart encased in an artificial thorax, a rudimentary circulatory system that has to be flushed periodicly with new blood, nutrients and antibiotics so he no longer can eat food

I feel sorry for Alex Murphy he “died” on the job and still had to report for duty the next day.

Robocop is a true masterpiece. Tragic and compelling character

To leave one hand as organic is beyond stupid. He weighs a couple hundred pounds more than the biological hand is able to accommodate in any number of situations.

Honestly, I prefer the ambiguous way the original series handled the question of what exactly happened to Murphy after his death to transform him into Robocop. The remake falls into the modern trap of slowing everything and over explaining rather than trusting the audience and letting them draw their own conclusions.

This movie was so far ahead of its time and was in such awe when I saw it in the theater for the first time. Still one if my all time favorites and can’t wait to get the new video game with Peter Welled voicing RoboCop!

Robo finds his motivation at the end of the film; to honor his original self's ideals and sense of duty and try to be more like him. Seemed so to me.

I think showing how much of him they cut away and how little of his body was left is the only thing the remake did right. The scene where they remove his armour and he's literally a head and lungs is horrifying.

RoboCop is one of my favorite movies

RoboCop from the 1987-1993 Was based in Detroit Michigan the 2010s In RoboCop 2 Detroit was bankrupt. It's weird though because in 2010 Detroit went bankrupt in 2010

Could you imagine a universe where Detroit is a complete hell hole and doesn't have Robocop?

At the start of the movie, the media break news had a commercial scene called the yamaha by jenson, so its probably that was put into Murphys cyborg chest too😊

Murphy's original parts included his brain, spine, and heart.

One of the best things in original Robocop was the cowboy gun spin which Louis recognized from Murphy. There's still a person in the machine. Apart from part of the brain and that face, what else original Robocop conserved?

I didn’t know what a shotgun could do until I saw what it did to him the more surprising part was how he was alive through all that shit

The "just the hand" part in the reboot was so stupid. As if a hand can do anything without the entire forearm.

Remember the difference between Robo Cop 1987 and the 2014 version Robo Cop doesn't cry Robo Cop makes the bad guys cry

The emperor made his armor very vulnerable to force lightning though so he won't turn against him

It's fun to guess what's left of Murphy so it was wise that the original film kept it a mystery. Less is more.

Alex is a patrolman a hybrid of man & machine a cyborg

4:02, so Ofc. Murphy's face and eyes were moved from off his skull, onto a robot skull and jaw that had the same shape and contour as his human skull and jaw? OmG

Funny how the perception of what happen to Murphy changes by director - Paul Verhoeven, who directed the original Robocop, always assumed Murphy was really dead, and all OCP did was to digitalize Murphy's mind into a robot body and computer, in a very satirical way of showing he was nothing but a product to corporate america. So Robocop really is a machine with human conscience, all the way down to the core, accordingly to Verhoeven. He even says so in an interview to collider in 2016, when criticizing the 2014 remake for being too serious. Irvin Kershner, on the other hand, just followed the scraps from Frank's Miller original script, which was much darker (Something characteristic of Miller back in the day) - Implying both Robocop and Robocain still retained their human brains while in cyborg form, making them more akin to Frankestein's monster than a corporate america product.

I’m glad this video is available, I seen this as a child like most of us here, and just couldn’t or didn’t understand all of these elements of the movies thank you for this!!! I do remember all the emotions Murph went through tho, a lot of sad and painful parts really

I think in a TV show version some of Robocops maintenance staff explained that part of his brain was unstimulated and dormant. Which had caused his memory to be wiped. But they were able to activate it, and in that exact moment he totally freaked out as he remembered everything. Especially being maimed and murdered by Boddicker and his gang, and the unbearable emotional anguish of losing his family. I think all that's left of Murphy really is his spine and central nervous system, digestive tract, lungs, brain and his face. The rest of him is the machine of Robocop. But despite their best efforts his humanity still breaks through. I'd like to imagine in Robocop 2 when he electrocutes himself and clears all his directives that he's pretty much entirely Alex Murphy just operating the Robocop machine.

Robocop is absolutely my favorite movie of all time! (The 1987 version) Thanks for the great analysis video!

You're all forgetting when Boddicker shoves a pipe on his chest and he screams in pain. There is something organic within the chest armor, like in the remake it could be lungs and heart.

OG Robo probably had artificial lungs. There's a commercial at the beginning about artificial hearts, a parody of the real-deal artificial heart that was a recent medical breakthrough at the time the movie came out. 4:51 "Do you expect me to believe that you don't know your left from your right?!" Or rather "his" left and "his" right.

I say this with all due respect, but this video was hard to get through because the voice over was pretty rough. Sounds like a bad AI reading it. Something to maybe improve on for future vids 😁

His helmet is the best....my question is...."where did the chin piece go"

If there’s no muscles then how did he smile at the end of the first movie?

Half Man, Half Machine, All Cop. RoboCop, The Future of Law Enforcement! Nice Awesome Video, Hasselhoffteam!

the question is what robocop body went through....keep in mind in an interview mr weller did...mr weller stated "he lost so much weight wearing the robocop costume...mr weller also stated that the costume was hot, it pinched his skin, the under suit was irritating to his skin in all it was all uncomfortable to wear....."

I still trip out every time I'm in Dallas that movie is all over the place

nice video and information!

Amazing video and narrative. Is great to see this revamped interest to this magic character whom fascination seems have remained untouched until these days.

Away from David in "Artificial Intelligence" Murphy is one of the SciFi characters whose destiny touched me most. I never saw him as a superhero or sth like that. For me he always was a severely disabled, traumatized man in total body prosthesis. Doesn´t matter how much I love the look and design of that shiny armor, being caged into it must be a fate worse than death. Unable to smell, hear, see and touch with natural sense organs, without the ability to feel when you´re touched....try to imagine that. All the worse that a part of his human mind was left to Murphy after his horrible transformation, so he is permanently confronted with the memories of all he´s lost from his human life. There´s just one other movie who appropriately describes the true dread of such an existence - it´s "Johnny got his gun" (1971) Johnny, that is Murphy without his armor. Metallica once made a song about it - "The One". Perfectly fits to Murphy, too.

He also has his heart & lungs. Definitely lungs because in Robocop 2 after he electrocutes himself, he takes a deep inhale

Disagree about the classic robocop it's pretty clear that he retains some abilities to rationalize his emotions the end of the first movie in fact is written to drive that point home yes most of his operational systems are machine like but his humanity remains although greatly subdued

This movie gets better and better

The scene where he gets obliterated with bullets, still creeps me out

To be fair, I'd probably turn evil if my parents named me Clarence.

The remake was such a letdown

imagine you die on the job, but they make you go to work the next day again and forever

Robocop still human because he has heart, conscience and soul. About his head, in Mortal Kombat 11 when Robocop receives a x-ray critic attack, is seen his human skull.

Robocop is One of My Favorite Movie Franchises as it has a Tragedy and Realism but I Love that Alex Murphy Still Live and has his Humanity intact Which is Rare to Cybernetic Beings.

One of my favorite movies

Great video. Answered a few questions that I was curious about. May I request a video on what “Darth Vader’s” body went through. While we’re on the subject of cyborgs. 🙏🏻😁

Thanks for this Robocop video is very informative thanks. This channel just got a new subscriber.

Wow! Definitely things I wondered about. Thanks for putting this together!

Thank you so much 😊

If only the third movie were just as brutal. And more in theme with the first two. Lacking that content, weakened its potential. The remake had some good elements to it, great effects. But, without the brutality, took away the impact. Plus, the new Murphy was too cocky in that remake. He was better in the original. As for Robocop's drive in the first flick? Once he started to realize he was still human, he wanted to push away from what he became, the machine. And of course, sought to end the corruption of OCP with its connection to Bottiker.

Robocop is my favorite superhero... A little bias because I'm from Detroit...

Doesn't mention the lose of his eye brows😂

Imagine being killed in the line of duty only to be brought back to life to go back to work😢

Murphy was deliberately transferred to the station as he was the best candidate for their programme

Poor guy he became the perfect candidate

Great video

He died and they force him to go back to work.

I just realized that high evolutionary seems like robocop

I have read some drafts and in some of them, not all ofh Murphy's brain was used. Wish is pretty logicall depending on how much of his brain that was destroyed by the bullet. Also is it the original Murphy in there or is it just that the computor part of his brain is taking copies from the brain and mthus making a copy of Murphy's consiousness and the orignal consiousness is dead?

Well, he’s really just a cybernetic organism aka a cyborg. He’s both human and machine.

I love how this doesn't actually answer the question that it's asking just points out what the watcher already knows

I agree with this and Murphy does in fact feel pain he is a cyborg which means that he is half human but his cybernetic suit is able to protect him from permanent damage he can get hurt and keep going!!

Robocop was a great storyline I still cry watching Murphy screaming in pain and horror as he's being destroyed mentally and emotionally and physically 💔 😢 😢😢

You could tell how bad it affected him, by the way he tried to destroy the enterprise and it’s crew

What accent is this that you speak with? I’m leaning towards it being Italian

*All My Life* I been *Waiting* to see a *Video* like this that tell's the *Indepth* story of what *happened* to *Alex Murphy* This is definitely one of the *Greatest Content Cinema Anatomic Breakdowns* on *"RU-vid"* *Great Discover* would *Love* to *see* More on *Robocop* following the *Ed-209* and *Cain Mecha* One thing that *I* don't understand is *You* have one of the *Slowest Realistic* looking *Cyborg's* in *Cinema* practically the *Realist* looking at this *Point* But *How* the *Hell* is *able* to *precisely* catch a *Bullet* but he *get's* his *hand* chopped *off* by a *Samurai Cyborg* on *Robocop 3?* Definitely *want* to *Re-watch* the *3* in *4K UHD*

Peter Weller’s body also went through a lot in the suit….

I wonder if psychiatrist or psychologist discuss this movie and consider the future of cybernetics and how to help?

The 2014 movie gets far too much hate for what it is. It _has_ to be its own movie otherwise people would just complain it's doing the exact same thing over again. I absolutely love how much more "realistic" it tries to be. The science behind it all, so much of it brought to viewer attention unlike most films. I also very much like the way they keep his humanity in 2014, rather than the original Murphy who was pretty much turned into a computer full and through but one which had memories that would affect its' functionality. On the other hand 2014 Murphy is a human slapped inside a computer. He's still fully human mentally, just controlling the computer and body that he has been given.

When I was a kid I wanted to be Robocop but I didn’t understand the mental physical. Not to mention friends and family, now I couldn’t imagine going through that. I also saw Bob Morton as a good guy now I know he was just as bad by taking great cops and putting them in the most dangerous parts of Detroit and Murphy was sadly a pawn in Bob’s plan to get on the Old Man’s good side

Robocop goes rogue af and teams up with Punisher. Make it a 5 season series.

"Here's his new robotic arm" "Okay, attach it to his shoulder" "His shoulder? .... Of course, so obvious. Why didn't I think of that?" "That's why I'm your boss"

I love watching RoboCop as a kid

The ED-209 demonstration incident was not an accident. The executive overstepped Dick Jones and paid for it.

Great video! Alex Murphy was the first Robocop, but not the only Robocop. There was a TV miniseries where another was made. I don't know about the cartoon or the comics, but it's possible that those had other Robocops as well. Something to consider for a future video. And don't worry too much about your voice in the video. So what if it's strange sounding to others, it's wonderful that you can speak multiple languages. Not many people can. Joerg from the Slingshot Channel releases two videos regularly. One in his native German, another in English. Perhaps you can do something similar. Keep up the great work!

very insightful, you watched the movies.

I can't belive they put the CHALLENGER accident in the newsreel. I never noticed it when I was younger. I'm sure they got some backlash from that.

Who's here after rogue city?

I liked Robocop they are my favorite movies