I always thought what made the original RoboCop so affecting was the transition of Alex Murphy from family man and upstanding cop to firing-squad target to crime-fighting machine to vulnerable yet indestructible emo-robot hybrid. It made for an ingeniously subtle arc against which to project the rest of Paul Verhoeven's pulpy, gory social satire, and Peter Weller's performance — essentially three performances layered atop and influencing each other — provided the foundation on which the film has held up for a quarter-century. So I don't know what to make of... this, from RoboCop remake star Joel Kinnaman (via MTV):
RoboCop is going to be a lot more human. The first movie is one of my favorite movies. I love it. Of course, Verhoeven has that very special tone, and it?s not going to have that tone. It?s a re-imagination of it. There?s a lot of stuff from the original. There are some details and throwbacks, but this version is a much better acting piece, for Alex Murphy and especially when he is RoboCop. It's much more challenging. [...] It's not going to be jaw action. They?re still working on the suit and how it?s going to look, but the visor is going to be see-through. You?re going to see his eyes.
I mean, OK? If only Weller had had a more "challenging" role in 1987! Think of how much better RoboCop would have turned out. Moreover — giving Kinnaman and director Jos� Padilha the benefit of the doubt, even — what's the upside of giving Murphy's remade face away before the big third-act reveal? Wasn't the point not that we "see his eyes," but that we see through his eyes — everything from domestic flashbacks to Clarence Boddicker spitting on his mask?…
Source: http://www.celebrities.com/celebrities-gossip/on-joel-kinnaman-and-the-thing-about-robocops-eyes/
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