My name is Robert Morton, I'm the developer ofthe Robocop program
for OCP, and you're going to be meeting Robo
in a minute. He's the most technologically advanced
law enforcement product to date. I'd like you to meet him now. You're only going to be able to ask him
a couple of questions, okay’? Not take up too much time.
I'll be right here. Robo, come on in. (PEOPLE CHATFERING) These men are going to talk to you
for a minute, okay’? MAN: Robo, do you know
why you were created’? -I stop crime.
-MAN: I see. Robo, I understand you have
three prime directives. Can you tell me what they are’? Serve the public trust. Uphold the law. Protect the innocent. MAN: Anything you'd like to add to this’? I am the future of law enforcement. That says it all, doesn't it’?
Thank you, Robo. It was a good job. Thank you. What did I tell you’? Be looking for him. (GUN FIRING) This picture takes place in old Detroit
in the future. It's the story of a cop named Murphy
who in the course of his duties gets killed. (LAUGHING) And he's rebuilt as a cyborg, pan‘ man, pan‘ machine,
and is now programmed as the future of law enforcement. I was reading a lot of comic books
for a studio. They came to me one day and said,
"Ed, read these comic books. "We want to know what you
think of comic books." And I'd never really read comic books, particularly of this sort,
which were of the sort of modern, neurotic superhero. Iron Man, Spider-Man, Machine Man. All these things, a guy called Stan Lee
over at Marvel created. It was the superhero who had
sort oftrouble being a superhero. Even though he had all these powers,
it was like something going on inside. So he was sort of like a superhero
with a headache. Robocop has been looking for me
and my boys because we're the ones that shot him up
at the beginning. And as the film has gone along,
he's discovered who we are, so he's come looking for us.
He happens to find us here. And then, in the process of arresting me, since I won't give up
and go along peacefully, he starfs throwing me
through various windows of offices in the warehouse here
while he's reading me my rights. PAUL VERHOEVEN: Okay, next shot,
thank you very much. Thank you, just a little bit of blood. That's natural,
I suppose, or is itjust fake blood’? SMITH: That's what we're in the process
of doing, and that's what all this... This business comes from. So when they take me
to the police station later, I look something like this. VERHOEVEN: Ready, action... (SHOUTING) (IMITATING GUN FIRING) I think my influence in the style has much more to do
with the way I shoot it, the editing and the way I work
with the actors, which is perhaps a little bit different from
a normal action picture because l go... I spend, I think,
much more time with the actors than you would normally do
for an action picture. Well, I play Bob Morton,
who is an up-and-coming executive for this company OCP. The company itself is kind of scary,
it's like, "We are Beatrice," you knovif? We own the police, we own the hospital,
it's great. And he's like the most ruthless,
ambitious agent who ever sat behind a desk
at William Morris. That's how I equate it. The writer calls him a yuppie with teeth. So... So no matter how sophisticated criminal technology gets, no matter how sophisticated
our society gets, no matter how futuristic it becomes,
there's still gonna be the beat cop. Hey, have you thought it all ovef! Why not make me an offef! VERHOEVENI G0! The robot had a gun
that fired a three-shot burst. So when the bad guys got shot,
you normally had one bullet hole, but he had three. So he had a large hole, a large cavity,
and a lot of blood. And these are extra-large blood bags
that in a lot ofthe sequences, that's how much blood we'd use with three or four ofthe bullet hits
to get the blood gushing and spurting offthe chest cavity
and body cavities. A lot ofthe shots. VERHOEVEN: Ready? Action. -VERHOEVEN: Cut.
-MAN: Cut. Well, I could hardly feel the impact. The brass of your last round
hit me right on the chest. -Rea||y'?
-Yeah. I figure if you wanted to take a shot at me
after I did this to you, I couldn't blame you. (LAUGHING) Actually, the rigging was really superb.
l hardly felt the impact. MAN: Now, when those things go off,
what do you feel’? Feels like... That's it. They did a superjob. One of my earliest recollections of robots is sitting in front of a television set
when I was four years old watching a local Philadelphia TV show
called Mr. Rivets. And it was a man in a cardboard box
painted silver. Now, hopefully we've done
a little better than that. We have one of the all-star teams
of special effects. We have Phil Tippett,
Academy Award winner, doing all the stop-motion animation
on the robot ED 209, this large armored enforcement robot,
and he becomes Robocop 's nemesis
during the course of the film. And I think Phil Tippetl‘ with ED 209 has really also done a superb robot. Stop-motion animation
is a frame-by-frame process where we move the stop-motion
model, the arms, the legs, the feet, the tail, the eyes, the back, ven/ infinitesimal amounts,
and then we take one frame of film and repeat that process again. Take one frame of film, repeat the process,
take one frame of film. DA VISON: We have Pete Kuran who did all the roto effects
in the Star Wars pictures. He's doing all our Robo Vision shots. All the PO V's of the robots. We have Rocco Gioffre, probably the finest young matte artist
in the United States, doing all our matte paintings. But I think Rob Bottin here has really
designed and created one of the most interesting, most
spectacular robots I've ever seen on film. Well, today we're shooting the scene
where Murphy gets killed by the gang. First they blow off his hand
and then they blow off his arm and then they blow off his head. Rob Bottin has created
all these prosthetics, and they are quite startling. We were going to use
Peter Weller to blow his head off, but... We decided we may need
some looping later on. So Rob Bottin has created
a wonderful prosthetic, a puppet of Peter Weller
which looks exactly like him. VERHOEVENI G0! DA VISON: And it sits up and it looks
around and it gets frightened and screams and the whole back of the head blows off. Quite dramatic. (LAUGHS) Okay, let's get out of here. The future of law enforcement. Robocop. VERHOEVENI Action!
