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The Prophetic Vision of Robocop 3 OSR Journal of Student Research Volume 2 Article 7 2014 The Prophetic Vision of Robocop 3 Andrew Thompson Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/osr Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Thompson, Andrew (2014) "The Prophetic Vision of Robocop 3," OSR Journal of Student Research: Vol. 2 , Article 7. Available at: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/osr/vol2/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Office of Student Research at CSUSB ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in OSR Journal of Student Research by an authorized editor of CSUSB ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Thompson: The Prophetic Vision of Robocop 3 39 The Prophetic Vision of Robocop 3 Author Interview Which professors (if any) have helped you in Andrew Thompson your research? Professor Omar Moran has helped me. Abstract With this paper, I reviewed the final installment What are your research/creative interests? of the Robocop movie trilogy through a satirical, I am interested by how reality is perceived in post-Occupy Wall Street lens. photographs. What are your plans after earning your Keywords: Robocop, Occupy Wall Street degree? What is your ultimate career goal? I intend to display a number of exhibitions locally and abroad. Mu ultimate career goal is to have museum exhibitions and to publish books about contemporary art theory and criticism. OSR Journal of Student Research│ Volume II, Issue 1, Winter 2014 Published by CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2014 1 OSR Journal of Student Research, Vol. 2 [2014], Art. 7 40 Robocop 3 is the second sequel to the control of Christian morals, or in this metaphor, smash hit Robocop, which was originally OCP command. In his way, Robocop becomes a directed by Paul Verhoeven in 1987. In this 1993 super Jesus for justice. version of Robocop, Omi Consumer Products Robocop is not the only movie Jesus (OCP), the creators of Robocop and Guardians of metaphor. In the latest Man of Steel movie, Detroit city, are on the verge of bankrupt and plan Superman sheds his original Jewish heritage and to sell off to an Asian investor. The investor has becomes an American Christ. “The explosion of devised a plan to destroy Detroit only to rebuild Planet Krypton from the Superman tale is partly the first entirely corporate owned township, based on the Genesis story, and partly a reflection known as Delta City. Though out the movie, of what was happening in the lives of Superman’s Robocop will turn against OCP, fights alongside Jewish creators, [Joe] Siegel and [Jerry] Shuster. the resistance and ultimately defeats the corporate “The world their parents had left behind in invaders. While the movie is poorly acted, Eastern Europe was being destroyed. Superman’s directed and conceived there are a number a plot escape from Krypton was like the World War II points that seem almost prophetic from the Kindertransports [trainloads of children sent out vantage point of 2013. Among them are: a from Nazi Europe]” (Leon). Yet, in Man of Steel bankrupt Detroit city, the relocation of civilians / when his father Jor-El sends his son to earth he natives from property, and the lack of punishment tells his wife, “He’ll be a god to them”. Another for CEO’s who’ve ruined world economies obvious sign, “occurs during a climactic battle: In the background of this story is the Superman jumps from General Zod’s ship and instilled “American Jesus” metaphor for hovers in the sky with his arms out-stretched like Robocop which original director Paul Verhoeven the crucifix” (Craig). Another Jesus movie explains: metaphor was the Disney released science fiction "The point of 'Robocop,' of course, is it is dud, John Cater of Mars. In one scene, “John a Christ story," Verhoeven said. "It is Carter will enter a tomb, seemingly dead, and it’s about a guy that gets crucified after 50 only after he rises again, within the next few days, minutes, then is resurrected in the next 50 that he can finish his work” (Wickman). I point minutes and then is like the super-cop out these American Jesus metaphors in movies to of the world, but is also a Jesus figure as set the table for the What Would Jesus Do he walks over water at the end […] I question in Robocop 3. put something just underneath the water Unlike Superman’s father who dies and so [Weller] could walk over the water remains in heaven, Robocop’s father (OCP) lives and say this wonderful line... 'I am not long enough to become corrupted and no longer arresting you anymore.' Meaning, 'I'm godly. OCP begins their corruption by devising a going to shoot you.' And that is of plan, with the help of a Japanese mega- course the American Jesus" (Rosenberg). corporation, to forcibly remove civilians from Yet this version of Robocop takes a very their property. It is a striking resemblance to the Nietzschean twist, because OCP, the creator and seventh American President Andrew Jackson’s thus the Father of Robocop has become campaign for, what he called, “Indian removal”. corrupted. OCP now brutally removes unarmed “Working on behalf of white settlers who want to civilians from their homes, hires a paramilitary grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal group to inflict corporate will and intends to sell government forced them to leave their homelands its corporate assets to investors; including land it and walk thousands of miles to specially does not legally own. For Robocop, whose prime designated “Indian territory” across the directives are “Serve the public trust”, “Protect Mississippi River” (History Channel). Jackson the innocent”, and “Uphold the law”, his father had spent years as an Army general leading brutal has betrayed him; his god has died. The fourth campaigns against Native Americans throughout prime directive was, “Never oppose an OCP Georgia, Alabama and parts of Florida. Despite Officer”. With the help of Dr. Lazarus this laws that required the government to negotiate commandment is removed and Robocop become removal treaties fairly, “Jackson and his a Nietzschean Übermensch, freed from the government frequently ignored the letter of the OSR Journal of Student Research│ Volume II, Issue 1, Winter 2014 https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/osr/vol2/iss1/7 2 Thompson: The Prophetic Vision of Robocop 3 41 law and forced Native Americans to vacate lands Urban Rehabilitators and the former police they had lived on for generations” (History officers, Robocop swoops down to save the day. Channel). A few self-appointed Cherokee He eliminates the leader of the Urban representatives negotiated a treaty with the Rehabilitators and the robotic assassins sent from federal government but they were betrayers of Japan in one mighty explosion. In the flaming their people. “The instrument in question in not aftermath, a limousine pulls up and out spills the the act of our nation” wrote the [Cherokee] former OCP C.E.O. who does not get arrested, nation’s principal chief, John Ross, in a letter to nor acknowledge any fault or blame on OCP’s the U.S. Senate protesting the treaty. “We are not behalf. At the very worst, he gets fired from the parties to its covenants; it has not received the company by the more evil Japanese C.E.O. and sanction of our people” (History Channel). then insulted by Robocop, “My friends call me Despite nearly 16,000 Cherokee signatures Murphy. You can call me Robocop”. Congress approved the treaty anyways. The Japanese C.E.O., and architect of the The newly homeless resistance fighters forceful rehabilitation cum hostile takeover of in Robocop 3 are quickly labeled as terrorist only Detroit City, gets off even easier. He walks to to be hunted and shot down by OCP’s within a few feet of Robocop, bows and drives paramilitary group known as Urban away. Rehabilitators. After witnessing the slaughtering So what does this mean? Despite being of innocent people, including his former partner, the leaders responsible for all the hardship, Robocop joins the resistance. That is what a destruction and warfare, they get to drive away compassionate, law abiding super Jesus would into the idyllic sunset? Doesn’t this sound do. familiar? There have been many C.E.O.’s that There is a real world example of a former have been fired and given obscene amounts of police officer joining the resistance. Former money to leave after failing, “even after the Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis, became a uproar over Jack Welch’s $417 million farewell beacon of symbolic hope when he joined the kiss from General Electric Co. more than a Occupy Wall Street protests in his full uniform. decade ago” (Green). Jack Welch is just one Before he was arrested he was seen holding a sign example, “At the top of the list compiled by that read ‘NYPD don’t be Wall St Mercenaries’. Bloomberg are three executives who each would Lewis has been quoted “Here they are worrying receive almost a quarter of a billion dollars or about dirty parks when people are starving to more if they were sent packing: McKesson Corp. death, where people are freezing, where people (MCK) CEO John Hammergren, eligible for are sleeping in subways and they’re concerned $303.4 million; CBS Corp. (CBS) chief Les about a dirty park. That’s obnoxious, it’s Moonves, with $251.4 million; and Discovery arrogant, it’s ignorant, it’s disgusting” (Bates). Communications Inc. (DISCA)’s David Zaslav Eventually, in Robocop 3, all the police officers with $224.7 million” (Green).
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