He’s very humble, in a video that is also on RUclips, where he is reunited with some cast members, he says that his films got famous mostly because of two composers, Basil Poledouros and Jerry Goldsmith :)
@@TBStudios91 Yes, for instance he says that if people have problems with Showgirls, the criticism should be directed at him, not the actors who were just doing their job. Which unfortunately most people didn't do at the time, they bizarrely went after Elizabeth Berkeley and to a lesser extent Kyle Maclachlan, who were just doing their jobs.
I was in the audience for the double feature the night this was recorded. I'm only discovering this footage now. This was a seminal moment for me as a longtime fan of the film. Hearing Verhoeven's thoughts again in 2020 I'm am more convinced than ever that we need a worthy Robocop follow up that brings the sensibilities of the original into this new context. It'd be hilariously tragic.
"Sure but we have to thank the writers" You have to just applaud this guy, honest and humble to a fault. This is why I don't believe Sharon stones "he didnt tell me" crap about the vagina scene in Basic Instinct. Hes so open, blunt and direct.
Verhoeven is underrated as a director, He Made all time Classics Like RoboCop, total Recall, Starship Troopers, Basic instict, His movies are still great to watch
Any other director probably would have treated the Robocop idea and IP as little more than just another science-fiction action movie. But Paul adds those extra layers of satire, cynicism, and Jesus allegory to the film.
Paul is a supernice man, I have met him in The hague (Netherlands) a year ago, bought him a coffee when I recognised him on a terras at a sunny day and he was so kind to walk up to our table and thank us for it...
Verhoeven is the underrated counterpart of figures like Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and Andrei Tarkovsky as far as Sci Fi Directorship goes. No kidding this man's is one of the formational pillars for several science fiction genres today.
From what ive heard he dosent do sequels because he likes to challenge himself and put himself out of his comfort zone. He was talking about his own movies tho so maybe hed do another if offered before he quit
Any film producer should be so lucky to work with Paul Verhoeven. He never complains, doesn't meddle with the script, just tries to shoot the movie as per the script. He has complete trust in the script writers and producer and gives it his all. What more could anyone wish for?
@@AudieHolland Paul Verhoeven often meddled or tried to meddle with the script. Basic Instinct: “Verhoeven had suggested changes to the script that Eszter has disagreed with, one of which included a lesbian sex scene that Eszterhas called "exploitative." With Verhoeven unwilling to budge, Eszterhas and producer Irwin Winkler left the production. Gary Goldman was subsequently hired to do four different re-writes of the script, at the advice of Verhoeven. After the fourth re-write, Verhoeven admitted his proposals were "undramatic" and "really stupid". By the fifth draft, the script had reverted to Eszterhas' original, with minor visual and dialogue changes.” (Wikipedia)
@@AudieHolland Robocop: He rejected the RoboCop script twice before taking to its underlying story about a character losing their identity. Neumeier and Miner wrote a third draft based on Verhoeven's requests, working through injuries and late nights; this 92-page revision included a subplot involving a romantic affair between Murphy and Lewis. After reading it, Verhoeven admitted he was wrong and returned to the second draft, looking for a comic book tone. (Wikipedia)
If I wanted to make a bucket load of money in Hollywood, I'd get the craziest somewhat coherant script (or a few), something with original ideas, and give it to Paul. You just know he'd make a high-budget picture we're all crying out for.
Ofcourse give him the writers and so on who are enthusiastic about the idea, I think Paul Verhoeven is a very enthusiastic person and very imaginative person, I would love to work with him, even get him his coffee haha.
I always thought that Paul would have been a great director for a Predator movie. Been a fan ever since Robocop. Smart and funny and genuine guy. Think he has degrees in chemistry and mathematics too. Robocop is one of the greatest films ever made and I don't think there's another film like it
He also studied history on his own. He is a true scholar. He did a lot of researches on the life of Jesus christ, he wanted to make a movie out of it but the project was never founded. So he release a great book based on his researches.
The director has done a couple movies that dwell in the same themes as Robocop, about cops dealing with the brazil criminal situation and rampant corruption (Elite Squad 1 and 2), and they were great. The problem with the Robocop remake was the studio.
7:53 It has to do the with the double-narrative of Starship Troopers, there is the main narrative that is really about young boys and young girls fighting giant bugs!!! That's the main issue. But then there is a counter-narrative that says "(by the way) these people are fascist!"
One thing that amazes me (but also frustrates me) is the movie's "prediction" of adverts/pop ups. Robocop: Prime Directives (4 part series) also did this. *Adverts, adverts, pop ups, adverts, pop ups, pop ups, pop ups, adverts.*
In my opinion; the greatest action film director that ever lived! It's criminal how Hollywood left him out to dry after Showgirls. I was born in 88 and grew up watching classic action movies like Robocop and Total Recall. Hollywood and their movies were popular all over the world for a reason, because they were very fucking good. Not so much now though however, you ask why? It's because directors like Paul Verhoeven and Neill Blomkamp aren't allowed to make what they want to make anymore, and it's because of us... The fucking consumers that we have such shit.
18:21 At this point you see the interviewer slightly annoyed that the answer given by Verhoeven wasn't a positive one, but the interviewer needn't be so upset. We the viewer are actually interested in the negative points and things that may not have gone on smoothly as that is what helps make a film like Robocop stand out so much decades later.
Everyone gives Peter Weller so much shit, he does come across as a bit of a quiet fellow, not very warm but perhaps that's what makes him such a good Robocop?
Robocop is very much a Reagan-era film, as that was when deregulation and neoliberal economic policies began the corporatization that we see has taken over in the film. It was also a product of the 1980s crime wave, which at the time was only getting worse. Nobody foresaw the drastic drop in violent crime in the 1990s.
Uh , liberals aren't into deregulations so don't blame liberals for fascist 🐂💩 . No liberal called regulations EVIL . That comes from fascist right wing NeoNazis that screwed up America after Clinton ALREADY MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN WITH RECORD LOW UNEMPLOYMENT , RECORD LOW POVERTY AND RECORD LOW HOMELESSNESS . After Clinton left the NeoNazis stole BOTH elections of Bush and Cheney .
Verhoven is awesome.I don't agree with the Trump part though,as far as him being pro military,yes,Warmonger,no.He was literally trying to get troops out correctly,then some moron came in a pulled out faster than his son at a crackhouse raid.Armed them better than Dick armed Boddicker.
100% correct. Robocop (and Robocop 2 & 3) is literally America under puppet Biden. Robocop & Today: The corporate take over of medicine, media, social media, etc. Robocop 2 & Today: The defunding of the police, censorship, political correctness. Robocop 3 & Today half way there: The militarization of the police and fascism. *All since puppet Biden came into office.* This is why i like Robocop 3, it has a decent ending, but it's what we can expect to come.
It's weird that Verhoeven called Mondrian a Dutch-American. Mondrian was Dutch not Dutch-American. Just because Mondiran lived the last two years of his life during WW2 in New York (wich is literally a city that was founded by the Dutch :)) doesn't make Mondrian in any way an American. Same goes for Verhoeven who has always been Dutch not Dutch-American even though he lived for decades in the USA.
I just watched the Netflix show, and I have to say I don't get the vibe that "the cast and crew hated him" - just that he could be intense and very vocal about things that bothered him.
English was not taught at such a high level when he was still in highschool. Most of his adult life, he didn't have to converse in English so that is why he sounds why he sounds. Look up other Dutch people from his generation. Unless they emigrated to the US of A or any other English speaking country, they sound similar.
I like how Verhoeven is so infatuated with violence and the darker sides of human existence yet proudly believes in God, I bet he's a fan of The Last Temptation of Christ but for all the wrong reasons.
The point is Verhoeven was and still is a European man of art not fully understandable by the American market...Kitty Tippel wouldn't be suitable for the American taste
Verhoeven seems totally oblivious of politics and the social upheavals of the early neoliberal period, which is quite disappointing. The same political issues were salient across the western world: rampant consumerism, privatisation, gentrification, militarisation, class struggle. Beyond his considerable artistic ability, he seems quite vacuous
@ MegaLotusEater Highly unlikely. Paul stated he grew up as a child in an extremely hostile environment that had its political issues, famine, destruction, etc. Im sure the western world changing after WW2 has not gone unnoticed by him... He spends a lot of time crediting/praising the people responsible for that narrative in the movie rather than explaining it.
Paul Verhoeven is not a theologian but he has read a lot of books about Jesus Christ. I think he wants to avoid to be seen as an intellectual, which he of course is.
Verhoeven is one the best director around, and not enough people knows that. A clever and so funny guy.
My Aunt was the art director for Robocop. It was a really rough and exhausting schedule and they only had 4 months to make it but it was worth it!
Cool!
4 months for such a perfect timeless film
Gayle?
The Art Director? Jesus Christ ... she made history in 4 months there.
This man is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
I so agree with you. Paul is great and can do any genre of film.
All Paul does is give credits to others, that tells a lot.
The mark of a humble man.
He’s very humble, in a video that is also on RUclips, where he is reunited with some cast members, he says that his films got famous mostly because of two composers, Basil Poledouros and Jerry Goldsmith :)
Also takes responsibility for the mistakes that were made
@@Nunov103 A very rare and humble film director indeed.
@@TBStudios91 Yes, for instance he says that if people have problems with Showgirls, the criticism should be directed at him, not the actors who were just doing their job. Which unfortunately most people didn't do at the time, they bizarrely went after Elizabeth Berkeley and to a lesser extent Kyle Maclachlan, who were just doing their jobs.
I was in the audience for the double feature the night this was recorded. I'm only discovering this footage now. This was a seminal moment for me as a longtime fan of the film. Hearing Verhoeven's thoughts again in 2020 I'm am more convinced than ever that we need a worthy Robocop follow up that brings the sensibilities of the original into this new context. It'd be hilariously tragic.
agree 100%
"Sure but we have to thank the writers" You have to just applaud this guy, honest and humble to a fault.
This is why I don't believe Sharon stones "he didnt tell me" crap about the vagina scene in Basic Instinct. Hes so open, blunt and direct.
Like she didnt know the camera eas right infront of her for the shot
Verhoeven is underrated as a director, He Made all time Classics Like RoboCop, total Recall, Starship Troopers, Basic instict, His movies are still great to watch
Happy 80th birthday Paul Verhoeven!!!
80! I thought he was looking a little older but not 80. Where has time gone?! A great and humble filmmaker.
@@Chilliconcarnage he's 100 in this interview
No other filmmaker would have made Robocop as good as it was. Verhoeven is one of the greats!
Any other director probably would have treated the Robocop idea and IP as little more than just another science-fiction action movie. But Paul adds those extra layers of satire, cynicism, and Jesus allegory to the film.
Paul is a supernice man, I have met him in The hague (Netherlands) a year ago, bought him a coffee when I recognised him on a terras at a sunny day and he was so kind to walk up to our table and thank us for it...
Verhoeven is the underrated counterpart of figures like Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and Andrei Tarkovsky as far as Sci Fi Directorship goes. No kidding this man's is one of the formational pillars for several science fiction genres today.
The People who were behind terminator 3 should of bent over backwards to get Paul verhoeven.
From what ive heard he dosent do sequels because he likes to challenge himself and put himself out of his comfort zone. He was talking about his own movies tho so maybe hed do another if offered before he quit
@John Mason good shout, probably would've preferred a good aliens sequel.
He is not interested in doing any more sci-fi or action movies.
Why them in particular? I'd much rather these people bother each other and leave Paul to his own craftsmanship
Legendary filmmaker, very insightful how his mind works when hes doing his craft
Any film producer should be so lucky to work with Paul Verhoeven.
He never complains, doesn't meddle with the script, just tries to shoot the movie as per the script.
He has complete trust in the script writers and producer and gives it his all.
What more could anyone wish for?
Would be a great MCU director
Doesn’t meddle with the script? What do you mean by that?
@@Brinta3 He does not go into conflict with the scriptwriter. He just does his job.
And next time please ask in a more polite manner.
@@AudieHolland
Paul Verhoeven often meddled or tried to meddle with the script.
Basic Instinct: “Verhoeven had suggested changes to the script that Eszter has disagreed with, one of which included a lesbian sex scene that Eszterhas called "exploitative." With Verhoeven unwilling to budge, Eszterhas and producer Irwin Winkler left the production.
Gary Goldman was subsequently hired to do four different re-writes of the script, at the advice of Verhoeven. After the fourth re-write, Verhoeven admitted his proposals were "undramatic" and "really stupid". By the fifth draft, the script had reverted to Eszterhas' original, with minor visual and dialogue changes.” (Wikipedia)
@@AudieHolland
Robocop:
He rejected the RoboCop script twice before taking to its underlying story about a character losing their identity.
Neumeier and Miner wrote a third draft based on Verhoeven's requests, working through injuries and late nights; this 92-page revision included a subplot involving a romantic affair between Murphy and Lewis. After reading it, Verhoeven admitted he was wrong and returned to the second draft, looking for a comic book tone. (Wikipedia)
I think Peter Weller was a good choice because he didn't look like a superhero and looked like a ordinary everyday fella which made it more realistic!
"There's no proof anywhere in script dat dis man is really his brother jya?" haha! I love Paul's self deprecation.
SO MUCH APPRECIATION FOR YOU AND YOUR WORK PAUL.
I really wish he made more movies here in the U.S. But I understand the films he wants to make wouldn't be possibly funded in Hollywood except Europe.
The greatest sci-fi director....
Greatest respect to Paul Verhoeven.
If I wanted to make a bucket load of money in Hollywood, I'd get the craziest somewhat coherant script (or a few), something with original ideas, and give it to Paul. You just know he'd make a high-budget picture we're all crying out for.
Ofcourse give him the writers and so on who are enthusiastic about the idea, I think Paul Verhoeven is a very enthusiastic person and very imaginative person, I would love to work with him, even get him his coffee haha.
8:29 "WHO WAS NOT A FASCIST!"
Paul is a genius director.love all his films.
I'm so lucky to have Paul Verhoeven direct!!!
I always thought that Paul would have been a great director for a Predator movie. Been a fan ever since Robocop. Smart and funny and genuine guy. Think he has degrees in chemistry and mathematics too. Robocop is one of the greatest films ever made and I don't think there's another film like it
He also studied history on his own. He is a true scholar.
He did a lot of researches on the life of Jesus christ, he wanted to make a movie out of it but the project was never founded. So he release a great book based on his researches.
Well said. He's a brilliant man and one of the best directors of our time.
Paul Verhoeven is a great filmmaker
A surprisingly humble chap
He should have been the one to direct the remake or decide if the remake should even be made. The remake was garbage.
the remake was absolutely one of the worst films I have seen in my life. OMG did the people who made the remake not watch the original?!!!!
The director has done a couple movies that dwell in the same themes as Robocop, about cops dealing with the brazil criminal situation and rampant corruption (Elite Squad 1 and 2), and they were great. The problem with the Robocop remake was the studio.
Love his work great director 👏 underated I feel but would love to see more of his work
7:53 It has to do the with the double-narrative of Starship Troopers, there is the main narrative that is really about young boys and young girls fighting giant bugs!!! That's the main issue. But then there is a counter-narrative that says "(by the way) these people are fascist!"
There's a third narrative, which asks the question: are the bugs really the 'bad guys', or the oppressed?
13:15 I built underneath the water a grate, so that you know, he could walk over water and say "I don't arrest you anymore"
One thing that amazes me (but also frustrates me) is the movie's "prediction" of adverts/pop ups.
Robocop: Prime Directives (4 part series) also did this.
*Adverts, adverts, pop ups, adverts, pop ups, pop ups, pop ups, adverts.*
Good Movie,many people should get kudo;s starting with this guy!
thank you for your co-operation!
This must be the most impatient-looking interviewer I've ever seen
IT's very beautiful how much you respect what happened and this film, everything and a lot of things...This "robocop" what's he gonna do?"
Verhoeven is the Artaud of cinema
scene of saving the woman from the rapists.... INGENIOUS !!!
My father in-law is also from Holland, and he sounds a lot like Paul!
Talking about robots: the interviewer appears to be a highly advanced model. But still, can't escape the 'uncanny valley.'
WTH when did this happen?? I woulda loved to be there!
Brilliant
In my opinion; the greatest action film director that ever lived! It's criminal how Hollywood left him out to dry after Showgirls. I was born in 88 and grew up watching classic action movies like Robocop and Total Recall. Hollywood and their movies were popular all over the world for a reason, because they were very fucking good. Not so much now though however, you ask why? It's because directors like Paul Verhoeven and Neill Blomkamp aren't allowed to make what they want to make anymore, and it's because of us... The fucking consumers that we have such shit.
18:21 At this point you see the interviewer slightly annoyed that the answer given by Verhoeven wasn't a positive one, but the interviewer needn't be so upset. We the viewer are actually interested in the negative points and things that may not have gone on smoothly as that is what helps make a film like Robocop stand out so much decades later.
Everyone gives Peter Weller so much shit, he does come across as a bit of a quiet fellow, not very warm but perhaps that's what makes him such a good Robocop?
I really -REALLY- wonder how Paul Verhoeven would have handled the Robocop 2 sequel.
Can you pls turn on automatic closed captioning?
Robocop is very much a Reagan-era film, as that was when deregulation and neoliberal economic policies began the corporatization that we see has taken over in the film. It was also a product of the 1980s crime wave, which at the time was only getting worse. Nobody foresaw the drastic drop in violent crime in the 1990s.
Uh , liberals aren't into deregulations so don't blame liberals for fascist 🐂💩 . No liberal called regulations EVIL . That comes from fascist right wing NeoNazis that screwed up America after Clinton ALREADY MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN WITH RECORD LOW UNEMPLOYMENT , RECORD LOW POVERTY AND RECORD LOW HOMELESSNESS . After Clinton left the NeoNazis stole BOTH elections of Bush and Cheney .
BASED ON PAUL' VERHOEVEN.
extremely smart man
I want to listen, and continue to listen.
Verhoven is awesome.I don't agree with the Trump part though,as far as him being pro military,yes,Warmonger,no.He was literally trying to get troops out correctly,then some moron came in a pulled out faster than his son at a crackhouse raid.Armed them better than Dick armed Boddicker.
100% correct.
Robocop (and Robocop 2 & 3) is literally America under puppet Biden.
Robocop & Today: The corporate take over of medicine, media, social media, etc.
Robocop 2 & Today: The defunding of the police, censorship, political correctness.
Robocop 3 & Today half way there: The militarization of the police and fascism.
*All since puppet Biden came into office.*
This is why i like Robocop 3, it has a decent ending, but it's what we can expect to come.
Master !!!!
all those years in america and you can still hear his dutch accent. haha.
And in his Dutch an American accent.
I ment Jan de Bont :o
@@rutgerb no not really. if you hear him speaking dutch it sounds like dutch
@@metalvideos1961 oh ja, je hebt gelijk. Ik heb maar even een NL interview opgezocht. Dan ben ik in de war met die andere regisseur, uhhh Jan de Bont
@@rutgerb ja idd hij heeft wel een amerikaans accent. trouwens hoe wist jij dat ik nederlands was lol.
@@metalvideos1961 omdat je hem Dutch had horen spreken ;)
Typical Dutch accent when using English... sounds weird xD. As a Dutch man myself I must say that I always cover my accent whenever I talk English.
Vince Hagenbeek Paul don’t give a shit.
Language is pure functional to him.
Why hide your accent?
Nobody give a shit.
He's up there with lucas, speilberg, del toro
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It's weird that Verhoeven called Mondrian a Dutch-American. Mondrian was Dutch not Dutch-American. Just because Mondiran lived the last two years of his life during WW2 in New York (wich is literally a city that was founded by the Dutch :)) doesn't make Mondrian in any way an American. Same goes for Verhoeven who has always been Dutch not Dutch-American even though he lived for decades in the USA.
8:40
The crucifixion, nice one 😃 The American Jesus
The cast and crew hated him on robocop, see the netflix documentary its very good
I just watched the Netflix show, and I have to say I don't get the vibe that "the cast and crew hated him" - just that he could be intense and very vocal about things that bothered him.
The only thing the cast didn't like was the shower scene from what I saw
2:10
Who's this moderator? Just curious.
James Kane Donnie Yen
He looks nothing like Donnie Yen, racist.
shinobi2119 racist racist racist.
People like you killed that word.
Gok wan
Strange that such an intelligent man believed the MSM narrative about Trump.
12:40 What's your name son?
Murphy
IF YOU TAKE ARNOLD, THAT'S OVER THE TOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!
I bought the fuckin movie Paul.
Somehow How I thought Paul's English would be Way Better.....
A Dutch guy with a Dutch accent. Shocking!
English was not taught at such a high level when he was still in highschool.
Most of his adult life, he didn't have to converse in English so that is why he sounds why he sounds.
Look up other Dutch people from his generation. Unless they emigrated to the US of A or any other English speaking country, they sound similar.
hollowman paul?
Neat. :D
I like how Verhoeven is so infatuated with violence and the darker sides of human existence yet proudly believes in God, I bet he's a fan of The Last Temptation of Christ but for all the wrong reasons.
FOR FUCK SAKE!!!!
I'm here because of Family Guy
The point is Verhoeven was and still is a European man of art not fully understandable by the American market...Kitty Tippel wouldn't be suitable for the American taste
Verhoeven seems totally oblivious of politics and the social upheavals of the early neoliberal period, which is quite disappointing. The same political issues were salient across the western world: rampant consumerism, privatisation, gentrification, militarisation, class struggle. Beyond his considerable artistic ability, he seems quite vacuous
Would you prefer Eli Roth?
Of course he is aware of it. What he says that the ideas come from the scripts, so he shall not be given the full credit
@ MegaLotusEater Highly unlikely. Paul stated he grew up as a child in an extremely hostile environment that had its political issues, famine, destruction, etc. Im sure the western world changing after WW2 has not gone unnoticed by him... He spends a lot of time crediting/praising the people responsible for that narrative in the movie rather than explaining it.
He’s not oblivious. Quite the opposite. Both ROBOCOP and TOTAL RECALL are practically about those subjects.
Paul Verhoeven is not a theologian but he has read a lot of books about Jesus Christ.
I think he wants to avoid to be seen as an intellectual, which he of course is.