RoboCop story
RoboCop is a 2014 American cyberpunk superhero film directed by José Padilha and written by Joshua Zetumer, Nick Schenk, Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. It is a remake of the 1987 film of the same name also written by Neumeier and Miner. The film stars Joel Kinnaman as the title character, with Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish and Jackie Earle Haley in supporting roles.
14 total · 8 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| autonomous weapons system | major | The US military introduced OmniCorp robotic peacekeepers capable of maintaining law and order in hot spots such as Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran. OmniCorp subsequently plotted to sell them to municipal police forces around the USA. |
| corporation interfering in politics | major | The OmniCorp executives hatched a nefarious plot to market robotic peacekeepers for use in law enforcement in American cities. |
| cyborg | major | RoboCop was a cyborg police officer. |
| husband and wife | major | Alex and Clara Murphy. |
| matrimonial love | major | Clara loved her husband Alex so much that she consented to have him turned into a cyborg, rather than letting him die after he was mortally wounded in an attack. |
| order vs. freedom | major | Robot police officers came with the promise of ridding the streets of crime, but at the cost of civil liberties. |
| personal identity | major | We are made to wonder to what extent anything of Alex was left inside RoboCop. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | RoboCop went rogue and tried to track down the criminals who attacked Alex and bring them to his own form of vigilante justice. |
| doctor's opinion vs. patient preference | minor | Alex asked his doctor to just let him die once he realized he was nothing more than a head and lungs in an exoskeleton, but the doctor refused to do so on ethical grounds. |
| father and son | minor | Alex/RoboCop and David Murphy. |