Posted on 04/27/2010 10:32:57 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Andrew Breitbart appeared at an awards ceremony in Chicago on Friday the 16th and one of his remarks was that Hollywood is "40 years into the left injecting bad into America." To counter the bad, Breitbart urged us all to remind each other what is good in our great nation. As an illustration of Breitbart's warning I give you Paul Verhoeven, the director of the 1987 film Robocop.
Verhoeven recently spoke to MTVs Josh Horowitz about the underlying symbolism of Robocop and his main conception was that the Robocop character was an "American Jesus" because his method of righting wrongs was to shoot and kill all evil doers. Robocop was judge, jury and executioner all in one and that apparently makes him an "American Jesus."
It was Verhoeven's contention that America is little else but a violent nation that has no interest in peace, law, and order, or diplomacy but is the quintessentially violent cowboy, self-interested, and mostly a lawless place.
In his own words, Verhoeven told MTV the following...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Paul Verhoeven is a foreigner. He should mind what he says. He’s a guest in this country, and I notice that his anti americanism aside, he had no qualms about coming here to make a buck or two.
Paul Verhoeven?
One word: Showgirls.
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Is he getting Jesus and Mohammed-pedophile confused or something?
Detroit in the Robocop movie looks better then most cities in the US today.
I’ll bet the citizens of Detroit would beg to have their city look like the one portrayed in the film.
Robocop was more like a Gen. Patton, or a Ronin Samurai.
Hey Paul, the ED-209 says put down the camera and surrender....
You have 10 seconds to comply...
Who would have know that “ROBOCOP””s Peter Weller is an academic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weller
He caught the crazy from Geena Davis.
Back when Verhoeven was scouting to RoboCop locaitons, he went to Detroit.
He settled for filming in Dallas, because Detroit, even then, was too shitty to portray a decaying, dying Detroit.
Go figure.
He may be crazy, but “RoboCop” rocked HARD!
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>> If Robocop was an American Jesus, that would make Herr Verhoeven God in his own mind.
LOL
“It was Verhoeven’s contention that America is little else but a violent nation that has no interest in peace, law, and order, or diplomacy but is the quintessentially violent cowboy, self-interested, and mostly a lawless place.”
When you translate his Leftist doublespeak into English he’s just saying that Americans don’t like to be lemmings, refuse to cower in the face of tyranny, and will take action to stop it on their own without feeling like they have to wait for some one else to do it. When there’s a problem America takes care of it. He wants Americans to become just like what the Euro-peons have become - a bunch of limp-wristed, girly men who couldn’t fight their way out of paper bag if required to do so.
Funny how leftists lie, no?
You know, it’s crazy how they insist that Americans are all about killing, when it’s Europe that engages in the holocaust.
RoboCop was a good movie. Too bad it contained an unnecessary insult against Reagan.
I hope the director goes to Arizona without his ID and gets deported.
We’ve had our own bouts, to be sure.
Things like “The Trail of Tears”, et al.
However, recent history should’ve pointed him directly at Europe, as you indicated.
Which makes Clarence Boddicker the American Antichrist.
I can’t really figure out what these people believe in and somehow all the troubles in the world are America’s fault. Last I checked America has only been around for a couple hundred years or so while other nations, empires have been around for thousands of years.
The only reason we have problems in our country is this mamby pampy Rodney King naive perspective on the world.
If we actually took care of business, did what was right America would be so far ahead of the pack and that is exactly what I think these globalists are afraid of. A truly free society that doesn’t require control.
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