{"id":750,"date":"2008-07-25T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/07\/robocop-aronofsky-fun-coincidences\/"},"modified":"2008-07-25T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T09:51:00","slug":"robocop-aronofsky-fun-coincidences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/07\/robocop-aronofsky-fun-coincidences.html","title":{"rendered":"RoboCop + Aronofsky = fun coincidences."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SIpQ6_OTDTI\/AAAAAAAABwA\/qoz4qevZlJI\/s1600-h\/cap923.bmp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SIpQ6_OTDTI\/AAAAAAAABwA\/qoz4qevZlJI\/s400\/cap923.bmp\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">Following yesterday\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/newsbites-sequels-and-remakes-edition_24.html#1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">official announcement<\/a> that Darren Aronofsky will direct the \u201creinvention\u201d of the <i>RoboCop<\/i> franchise, a couple extra thoughts occurred to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One.<\/p>\n<p>For years now, I have taken a perverse pride in being able to say that \u201cI have two X-rated movies in my DVD collection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only half-true, technically speaking. Maybe even only a quarter-true.<\/p>\n<p>But one of the films in question is <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/newsbites-sequels-and-remakes-edition.html#1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">RoboCop<\/a><\/i> (1987; <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/onfilm\/message\/2959\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">my comments<\/a>), the director\u2019s cut of which (first released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1559408898\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">on Criterion<\/a>, now available along with the theatrical cut on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000QQH4YS\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">20th-anniversary DVD<\/a> put out by MGM) <i>was<\/i> rated X before a few seconds of blood and gore were trimmed to get an R rating instead.<\/p>\n<p>And the other film is <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00005V1WQ\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Requiem for a Dream<\/a><\/i> (2000; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/darren-aronofsky-tackling-biblical.html#c116263537330641689\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">my review<\/a>), which was produced about a decade after the X rating had been retired in favour of the NC-17 rating, and which was released to theatres \u201cunrated\u201d after the MPAA \u201csurrendered\u201d the film\u2019s original NC-17 rating.<\/p>\n<p>The latter film was directed by Darren Aronofsky. So it\u2019s kind of fitting that he would now be directing the \u201creinvention\u201d of the former film.<\/p>\n<p>Two.<\/p>\n<p>The original film was directed by Paul Verhoeven, who has wanted to make <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/newsbites-hobbit-demons-superman.html#5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a movie about Jesus<\/a> for years, if not decades, now. Verhoeven even claims that there is Christ imagery in <i>RoboCop<\/i> itself (the crucifixion-like execution of Murphy, who is shot rather than nailed in the hand; the image of RoboCop \u201cwalking on water\u201d; etc.).<\/p>\n<p>And Aronofsky has given a few interviews where he talks about how he really wants <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/darren-aronofsky-tackling-biblical.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">to make<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/aronofsky-goes-from-fountain-to-deluge.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a movie<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/couple-of-quick-bible-movie-updates.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">about Noah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So they have the ambition-to-make-a-biblical-epic thing in common, too.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following yesterday\u2019s official announcement that Darren Aronofsky will direct the \u201creinvention\u201d of the RoboCop franchise, a couple extra thoughts occurred to me. One. For years now, I have taken a perverse pride in being able to say that \u201cI have two X-rated movies in my DVD collection.\u201d It\u2019s only half-true, technically speaking. Maybe even only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>RoboCop + Aronofsky = fun coincidences.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following yesterday&#039;s official announcement that Darren Aronofsky will direct the &quot;reinvention&quot; of the RoboCop franchise, a couple extra thoughts occurred\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/07\/robocop-aronofsky-fun-coincidences.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RoboCop + Aronofsky = fun coincidences.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following yesterday&#039;s official announcement that Darren Aronofsky will direct the &quot;reinvention&quot; of the RoboCop franchise, a couple extra thoughts occurred\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/07\/robocop-aronofsky-fun-coincidences.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-07-25T09:51:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SIpQ6_OTDTI\/AAAAAAAABwA\/qoz4qevZlJI\/s400\/cap923.bmp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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