Posted on 02/17/2011 9:42:21 AM PST by winstonwolf33
Despite the Detroit mayor's apparent disinterest in erecting a "RoboCop" statue, supporters of the idea have exceeded their fundraising goal of $50,000 -- hoping their plans to honor the legendary cyborg will become a reality.
The story of "RoboCop," a hero officer killed in a shootout and brought back to life as a half-mechanized crime fighter in Detroit, is a 1987 cult classic.
The push to construct a statue honoring the superhero began when Detroit Mayor Dave Bing took to the Internet to solicit ideas for the city's revival.
Someone then posted the idea on Twitter, but Bing didn't seem to keen on it.
"There are not any plans to erect a statue to Robocop," Bing wrote on his Twitter account. "Thank you for your suggestion."
The mayor, however, touched off an immediate wave of Twitter messages from fans of the movie who hope he will reconsider, and others amused that he had even responded.
Now, just six days later, organizers say they've exceeded their fundraising goal of $50,000 needed to build the statue, MyFoxDetroit.com reports.
In an interview with the station, John Leonard, an artist and one of the masterminds behind the online campaign, called RoboCop a "symbol of rebirth."
"He's a superhero," he said. "I think if you look at the characters ... sort of the morals and the positive things that the character embodies are really the driving factor behind this."
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They need to pool some more money and build a real one....then they can clean up Detroit....
“Give it up, creep!”
Seriously, the reaction I had when I saw the headline was, “Maybe they want people to think of the movie and think, ‘well, Detroit could have turned out worse!’”
I couldn’t by a 6000SUX, so I drive an SUV.
I’m not sure that the detroit of the movie was worse than the reality.
I’ll buy that for a dollar!
Well ya know I called a dollar also just so i can claim...For a few dollars more. ;)
Oh, come ON!
First off, there is no way Detroit is going to want a statue of something with that level of violence representing its city. They’d need something with far more violence to be representative. Maybe a statue of Pol Pot would do. It’d certainly be more indicative of the actual governance of the city, too.
Second off, no way does a movie in which Red Forman dies deserve commemoration.
Third, the only way most honest, hard-working people would visit anything in Detroit is if RoboCop was escorting them for protection, gun drawn. So no one but thieves, hookers, dealers and city employees—sorry, I repeated myself—would ever get to see it.
“Really stupid...This statue would only pay homage to a dumb-assed movie cyborg. Just a really dumb idea and how it would add one iota of cultural value to Detroit, I have no idea!”
Have you been to Detroit recently? Anything new that can’t be easily stolen would add at least tangible, if not cultural, value to Detroit. Additionally, considered from the standpoint of the cultural rubric most Detroit residents fit into, the RoboCop value set would probably be a step up.
That wouldn’t make it any less stupid. Stupid isn’t good enough. Aim a little higher for a change. Have some class, Detroit...GEEZ!
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