RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit in the near future, it centers on police officer Alex Murphy, played by Peter Weller (pictured), who is murdered by a gang of criminals and revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as a cyborg. The director emphasized violence throughout the film, making it so outlandish that it became comical. RoboCop was a financial success upon its release in July 1987, earning $53.4 million. Reviewers praised it as a clever action film with deeper philosophical messages and satire, but were conflicted about the violence. The film won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. RoboCop has been critically reevaluated since its release and hailed as one of the best films of the 1980s for its depiction of a cyborg coming to terms with the lingering fragments of its humanity.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1874:
Members of the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Dufferin began their March West, their first journey to the Canadian Prairies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_West
1947:
Following reports of the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S. Army Air Forces personnel near Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident
1966:
King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi was deposed in a coup d'état by his son, Prince Charles Ndizi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mwambutsa_IV_of_Burundi
2014:
German citizen Lars Mittank disappeared from Varna Airport, Bulgaria; his last known movements were widely watched on YouTube. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Lars_Mittank
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outlandish: 1. (archaic) Of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native; alien, foreign. 2. (by extension) 3. Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar. 4. Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous, strange. [from late 16th c.] 5. (derogatory) Of a place: far away from where most people are located; in the middle of nowhere, out of the way, remote. 6. (obsolete) A foreign language. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/outlandish
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People must help one another; it is nature's law. --Jean de La Fontaine https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_Fontaine