RoboCop Director Explains The Hilarious Reason Love Affair Plot Was Cut
RoboCop director Paul Verhoeven has explained the hilarious reason for cutting the film’s love affair plot. The 1987 action film about a futuristic police officer turned cyborg was a major hit for Verhoeven, and introduced the Dutch filmmaker to American audiences for the first time. Though two more sequels followed as well as a TV series and a 2014 reboot, Verhoeven hasn’t returned to the franchise since the release of the original film.
Instead, Verhoeven continued to take on Hollywood in his own way. The late 1980s became a highly successful period for the filmmaker, who went on to direct Arnold Schwarzenegger in the blockbuster Total Recall before shocking audiences with Basic Instinct. It was the latter film in which Verhoeven returned to focus on the romantic thriller, a genre that wasn’t unheard of in America at the time, but with which he’d made a name for himself back in Europe. Basic Instinct’s unabashed sex scenes proved particularly controversial in America, but it was one specific scene involving a police interrogation of Sharon Stone’s Catherine Tramell character that has gone down in cinematic history. In recent years, Stone has revealed that she was tricked into performing the scene — a claim that Verhoeven denies.
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Yet whether due to violence or sex, Verhoeven has always been the sort of filmmaker who retains the ability to whip up controversy. At the same time, however, there’s always been a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek humor in even his most controversial films. But the inherent absurdity of RoboCop could have been even more pronounced had Verhoeven gone with his initial idea of introducing a love affair between RoboCop
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