Although the film dates itself in the first newscast by referencing the white minority government of South Africa, the story itself does not establish a specific time in which it occurs.
This is actually the best way to make a story that takes place in the future, as the difference between the 2015 of Back To The Future and the 2015 we all lived in demonstrates.
However, the film's trailer does specify 1997, which happens to be the same year as Predator 2 & the title date of Terminator 2 judgement Day.
This is actually the best way to make a story that takes place in the future, as the difference between the 2015 of Back To The Future and the 2015 we all lived in demonstrates.
However, the film's trailer does specify 1997, which happens to be the same year as Predator 2 & the title date of Terminator 2 judgement Day.
This is only an educated guess, but taking into account Peter Weller's height of 184 centimetres (six feet and half an inch), plus the layers added by the RoboCop suit, anywhere from 191 centimetres (a little over six foot three) to 198 centimetres (a little over six foot six) is reasonable.
It is well established that Morton ordered "total body prosthesis", so he could theoretically make RoboCop any size he wished. However, he would be limited by the dimensions necessary to get all of RoboCop's systems into the body. For the sake of argument, let us pretend they merely added to Murphy's feet and head, as these are the most obvious areas where the practical real-world RoboCop suit was built up for cosmetic and safety reasons.
The main factors are how much material OCP has added to the bottoms of Murphy's feet and the top of his head. Armouring the bottoms of the feet would be a consideration because the visor will limit RoboCop's ability to look down to a small but significant extent, thus making it harder to avoid dangerous objects on the floor. And dangerous to RoboCop means more than just Lego, which he would crush. The top of his head likely contains hardware to record data, keep the organic components at a safe temperature, plus as much extra armour as can fit.
Based on shots of RoboCop moving through doorways, which are typically built to a height of 2.032 metres (six foot eight), six foot five or six foot six appears to be most likely.
It is well established that Morton ordered "total body prosthesis", so he could theoretically make RoboCop any size he wished. However, he would be limited by the dimensions necessary to get all of RoboCop's systems into the body. For the sake of argument, let us pretend they merely added to Murphy's feet and head, as these are the most obvious areas where the practical real-world RoboCop suit was built up for cosmetic and safety reasons.
The main factors are how much material OCP has added to the bottoms of Murphy's feet and the top of his head. Armouring the bottoms of the feet would be a consideration because the visor will limit RoboCop's ability to look down to a small but significant extent, thus making it harder to avoid dangerous objects on the floor. And dangerous to RoboCop means more than just Lego, which he would crush. The top of his head likely contains hardware to record data, keep the organic components at a safe temperature, plus as much extra armour as can fit.
Based on shots of RoboCop moving through doorways, which are typically built to a height of 2.032 metres (six foot eight), six foot five or six foot six appears to be most likely.
When Old Detroit police officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is brutally murdered by a group of criminals led by crime boss Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith), Omni Consumer Products (OCP) employee Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer) uses Murphy's body to create a powerful cyborg—part man, part robot—that they name RoboCop. With the help of RoboCop/Murphy's ex-partner, Officer Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen), RoboCop begins to get back his memories of his previous life and decides to find and arrest Boddicker as well as corrupt OCP President Dick Jones (Ronny Cox).
RoboCop was filmed from a screenplay written by American screenwriters Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. According to Neumeier, he got the idea for RoboCop when he asked his friend about another movie, and the friend replied, "It's about a cop hunting robots," leading him to think about a robot cop. The character of RoboCop was inspired by British comic book hero Judge Dredd as well as the Marvel Comics superhero Rom. The success of RoboCop inspired two sequels, RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993); and two TV series, RoboCop (1994) and RoboCop: Prime Directives (2001). RoboCop was novelized in 1987 by American sci-fi writer Ed Naha. The series was rebooted with the release of RoboCop (2014).
Not directly, one certainly could point the finger at Bob Morton who intentionally sent "prime candidates" into high crime areas in the hope that they would get killed. Since the police officers signed a release form he would then be legally allowed to use their bodies for the Robocop prototype. Even though this is highly unethical, immoral and shows a complete disregard for human life (which was a theme of the movie) Morton didn't actually do anything illegal as there is no indication that he had any kind of connection with Boddicker and his gang. In the case of Dick Jones it has been theorized that he hired Boddicker to kill a bunch of police officers so that the Old Man would approve his ED-209 project but this also does not seem to be the case. Boddicker's primary business appears to be drugs and robbing banks, and he simply does not have any problem murdering police officers who stand in his way. As far as the film indicates Jones and Boddicker occasionally do business with each other (such as a hit job on Bob Morton) as Jones is heavily involved in all kinds of illegal activities.
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