Similarities And Differences Between 1987 And 2014 Versions Of Robocop

Although a remake of a film follows the same basic plot, the story can give off a completely different feel. There are both similarities and differences in the 1987 and 2014 versions of RoboCop. The remake of RoboCop keeps the original films idea that this half man half machine he was created to stop crime in Detroit and eventually across America. However, the remake makes many changes to the film. For example, the beginning of the film shows that these drones are being used in Iran as a military weapon and we even see them in China. But in the original it is made to believe that the drone brought out in the beginning of the film is the first of its kind, unlike the remake where there are dozens of drones in countries outside of the U.S.

Alex Murphy’s character in the remake is very different from his character in the original. Even the way we are first introduced to Alex in the original, he is transferred to the new station, no one knows him and he is given a new partner and he is just a cop. In the remake its implied that Alex has been in this
Even Samuel L Jackson blames the reasoning for the bill not passing on allowing robots to be in America to patrol the country on the “President being persuaded by bias media.” Meanwhile the entire film Jacksons character is completely and painfully obvious wanting to allow robots to be in America as part of the police force. At the end he even starts yelling and gets angry, once again mocking modern day media and news sources. The suicide bombers in the beginning of the remake have a mission to die on television, tying back to the focus on media and how many terrorists want attention and their names to be read across headlines in