They wanted Murphy "dead" to turn him into Robocop yet the boddicker & Co went after him it was miracle he lived long enough for conversion. Had he died they would have lost the brain which was what they really wanted.
How could Robocop afford that house?
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They wanted Murphy "dead" to turn him into Robocop yet the boddicker & Co went after him it was miracle he lived long enough for conversion. Had he died they would have lost the brain which was what they really wanted.
I can't help but wonder, how exactly did Murphy's brain survive long enough for him to become Robocop? I would have thought that, after shootings and beatings such as Boddicker's men did to him, would have killed him long before OCP could save the brain.
And of course, at the end, they openly shot him in the head! Wouldn't that mean instant death? How could any brain survive a direct gunshot wound?
Or is this just "because plot"?
And of course, at the end, they openly shot him in the head! Wouldn't that mean instant death? How could any brain survive a direct gunshot wound?
Or is this just "because plot"?
Aren't there people who survived gunshot or arrow shots in their head?
yes - some with less impairment than others and where the bullet/arrow was fired at distance. boddicker & co were at point blank range.
Also I was thinking more of brain death that starts after 3min of oxygen deprivation.
He made a miraculous recovery at a Chicago ER specializing in skin grafts. So much so that he rededicated his life to practicing medicine and saving lives. Until Satan's helicopters came calling for him for all his prior misdeeds.That's worse...now the guy has to LIVE like that.
At least in the theatrical version, he was destroyed instantly, so he didn't have to suffer...
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I figure by that time in the future, with things so bad, Detroit was a company town, and OCP was that company and buying up more to consolidate their control.
This is from a particularly fascinating TV edit of the original movie, which generally makes even more extreme cuts and changes to the dialogue than the original TV cut. I believe its existence wasn't even known until Arrow did a bunch of really deep-diving for its 4K Blu-ray release of the movie last year.
It's possible the movie just didn't think or care about that kind of stuff or details a lot of shows and movies that deal with death and revival do that when they're not medically-centric.
It's also "possible" some elements in this "future" they're able to work around such problems within a window, they have bionic hearts, artificial gravity and sending the US president to orbiting space platforms so, yeah, they can probably revive a "dead" brain within a certain window. Hell, they can make a brain operate and communicate with electronic and robotic components so maybe it's not that much a hurdle?
As for the topic at hand, there's a lot of answers that've been covered here nicely. The economics of the 80s were different, the housing market was different then, Detroit is a super hell-hole in this future, we don't know what the wife does for a living, etc. And did we really know if it was "that" nice or large of a home for the time period this is set in? I mean it could be a dump by the standards of their time.
(Someone pointed out Marty's future home in 2015 which to us looks pretty nice and decent, but we're told by the cops that the area they're in is a dump that should be torn down so Marty's home isn't likely "that" nice.)
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