RoboCop was an instant classic when it came out and it still has a presence today. every time I watch it I'm still blown away Peter Weller the directors, the cast, everyone involved made a classic movie Go Robo.
There is a scene when Robocop/Murphy is sitting at the abandoned factory looking into his reflection off a piece of scrap--when his partner comes to give him company and then he asked her to leave him alone. There were scenes like this that really sold his role and the human impact of the story. When it's our time to die we often want to be alone, we all die alone. It's an individual solitaire experience--death. It was like he wanted to die but couldn't. He wasn't sure what he was anymore.
Yes me too! I remember me and my mum bought my mate the robocop action figure for his 5th birthday back in 89. But I was a bit too boisterous and I broke mine. Mum and dad never replaced it, lesson learnt! 🤣
Wow, he actually says Verhoeven's name right, the 'oe' in Dutch is pronounced like 'oo' in English, think Spook, Groove ect. and not Verhoven like so many Americans do. 1:57 And man, why is this interview not on the Criterion DVD.
Robocop is a alltime movie...i mean...no matter what year it is now...u can watch this movie and u will enjoy it as it was back in the days !!! I love it so much!
History in the making. I dont even know how many times i have rewatched this movie through the years, ever since i first saw it in the local cinema as a kid.
Robocop was great. It was very bloody and violent. You really hated the villians. They were discustingly mean, but I loved Peter's performance. I remember I went to see it by myself in NY. Peter had been in a seminar with me. I remember yelling out, "Go Pete". I am just an acquantence, but I was very proud!!!!! It was a successful movie.
This is VERY AMAZING interview... Peter voice is so Robocop :) I like how he described the robocop suit... and the humanity aspect of this movie... very nice thanks for upload :)
My dear boy , my dog is dead and I’m the saddest guy in the world, this video just popped up and i forgot my sadneya little for some minutes, thank you
@@randallreiter9679 Same. I liked some of the concepts introduced in the remake, but Jose Padilha was really cut off at the knees. He was a perfect choice for the film, but he really needed two movies and no restraints. Unfortunately we ended up with a butchered, PG-13 mess.
Man, not only do we not get actors like this anymore, we don't get interviews like this anymore. --- He isn't a socialite, he isn't a social media star, he isn't looking for clicks and he isn't looking to be the next blockbuster. The guy is just an actor who loves acting! And that effects the calibur of interviews he'll give, and the sort of interviewers who would approach him. I love this informal chat, how it spiders off into other subject, and how I don't feel like the interviewer is probing him for a soundbite or a headline. This is just a great clip of a decent chat --- yet lo and behold; this sort of chemistry made a movie that STILL trumps anything Hollywood are farting out nowadays. Probably because acting was done by actors back then!
This film had such a sledgehammer impact on me in my youth. I will never forget walking through the lobby of a local movie theater and being slapped across the face by the Giant standee of an upcoming movie called robocop. I stood transfixed and knew in that very moment I had to see that film no matter the cost. Fast forward to 1987 when the film actually came out and I wasn't allowed to see it because it was a rated R film. I was like 11 years old or something which is way too young and my parents mind to go see a rated R movie. Well I still managed to go see it which I'm not proud of but I did. And it continues to influence my life in one way or another even today
I like to know more about the stuff I'm really into and Robocop is one of my favorite 80s movie right after Die Hard (is it obvious? ha!) and besides Aliens. This is awesome, thank you so much for posting this vid.
The shiny helmet with the eye window. The gun that go bang and boom sawing people is asunder, the crane that drops stuff on people….. It’s these things that draw us into this tale of loss and hope and yet we to finding something amidst the sadness and loss. Like Murphy we to undergo a change and we find ourselves shuffling robotically down the street as it were demanding more from life with renewed vitality as we say within our new and transformed hearts, “Dead or alive.. You’re coming with me and I’m not taking no for an answer this time!” That’s the impact and the gravitational pull that brings us back to this and classic, riveting, and innovating film time and again.
Two thumbs up for you Peter!!! I'm not sure about the new version... but anyway... In my opinion, nobody does it better than the duel Verhoeven-Weller at the time!!! (So for the rest of the casting of course!) We will see... Look carefully at the 06:21 :-) or when an actor is completely investigating his role, even in the middle of his own interview!!! Once again: two thumbs up Mr Weller!!!!!!
What gets me overtime is that the movie could have taken place in 2013's Detroit. I mean the movie reflects all the craziness going on right now in a city leveled by it's corrupt politicians and poor social values.
Couldn't have commented better myself. The original was quirky, strange, intense, uber-violent and wonderfully ugly depicting the crassness of Robocop's world. One of my ALL TIME favorites.
Wow. I wish I had seen this interview when I saw the film for the first time cause it paints it in a very different light to how I thought of the film . It is actually much more than just the action movie of blood guts and violence that it seemed to be sold as at the time, but Peter Weller describes it as so much more. I shall see it in a new light, next time I watch it.
Peter made a good call in not doing the third movie, the story and writing was horribly disappointing, I watched all the movies again a few weeks ago, and being able to really pay attention to the differences between them I see now more clearly what everyone means when they say the script was horrendous. I remember at this time they were also selling video games and toys, capitalizing on the franchise and marketing to children may have been what killed it.
Director Paul Verhoeven made some gritty, unfiltered, no-holds barred movies in his native home The Netherlands before this movie. Spetters and The Fourth Man. Some of the stars in his movies played in and somewhat successful in American cinema later on. Imagine Rutger Hauer as Murphy/Robocop, Renee Soutendijk as Lewis, and Jeroen Krabbe as Jones. That might have worked out well!
Exactly what he says here makes the original perfect how it is. The director of the new remake got it wrong, it is not about corporations taking control of humanity or men. It is about the soul in the machine (the ghost in the shell ;D) the fact the a corporation is behind the plot or circumstances in the film is not the highlight center point. The original Robocop was instant classic because it had a soul. Peter Weller understood this well which was key for an actor to be able to play the role.
And to think my mum and dad used to think it was Arnold Schwarzeneger in the suit back in the day. I'm not sure Arnold could speak about the film in the eloquent way that Peter does here in this interview. I may be wrong though.
Miguel Ferrer and Kurtwood Smith were fantastic in their roles. I really enjoy their scenes. I'm surprised they're not more "Robocop" quotes out there. LOL
Great point. The human aspect of that tragic character was lost on the past movie audiences. So powerful was this movie to me, it was like five years before I could watch it again! Maybe because, during the time, I was a cop. LOL Who knows? O_o
When I first saw this movie, I absolutely loved the futuristic setting and the slickness of the production (at the time Dallas doubling for Detroit). But every time I saw Peter Weller in it, I saw the nasty, unstable drug addict and drug dealer boyfriend from Firstborn that can’t hold a job and dreams of opening a restaurant. A rather disturbing movie about a lonely single parent mother to two teenage boys with her new boyfriend making their life hell.
Because it doesn't work that way. 1 reporter gets 1 cameraman. This wasn't some special interview that required 2. Just a regular 'behind the scenes' look on an upcoming film.
Very bad done we only to see Peter not the another please zero professionals he do not deserved that mistreat my weller ass ever happens whit. Count talents so devalued... And to my eyes that unique film deserves awared whit really Oscars bests director. Best scripts.. Special efects and of course performer for weller what an effort and dedivation at least one oscar for. His awesome career what s shameless
So sorry foe my bad english.... But that i feel ok my point of wiev... But that Peter deserved. Be in first plane... Hes the star... Please more respect come. On. Our and my one and only agent Murphy... And do not try to be compare whit Burke. Or Eden robo 3, and the serie 94,both done the best can done... Whit the cards that.them had whit his fails but very f Good escenes and still beta that shameless and crap of remake. That never. Could be to easy thanks to cgi im praying again for neill Blomkamp that want. A second part of Robocop 87 whlt help scripts from neumeier and miner he has been promisslng much violencie and social sátire. And tha suit ill gona the original thanks just for that neill but now the most dificult find a really good actor that. Must be looks like. Weller. He want weller but for now zero but please call her as. Asesslt and fifgt fot all this cause fans deserve it
He was handsome. No tattoos, no piercings, no weird beards.. nothing. just clean, simple, and very handsome.
Hes alwais handsome and what. Sweetheart. Blessings
Huh! Gaaaaaaeeeee
ikr!!! 😍 I hate tattoos and beards; that seems to be the “industry standard” nowadays!
💪👍
So handsome and sweet))✨💖👄 Pobocop was my first crush)) 💗
Peter Weller is unique actor and very well spoken
Can't believe this interview is almost 30 years ago. The video looks so recent.
Nothing has changed since then!, Only our technology. Peace
32 yrs. to date now... 2019
Mr. Hannes yo dude! Stay in 2019! Trust me dude!! It’s not worth coming to 2020!! Just take my word for it!! Shit is crazy here!
we had good video and notice the sound vhs had better sound
I cannot believe your comment is 7 years old! LOL
RoboCop was an instant classic when it came out and it still has a presence today. every time I watch it I'm still blown away Peter Weller the directors, the cast, everyone involved made a classic movie Go Robo.
I can listen to this guy for hours
pareil 😊
There is a scene when Robocop/Murphy is sitting at the abandoned factory looking into his reflection off a piece of scrap--when his partner comes to give him company and then he asked her to leave him alone. There were scenes like this that really sold his role and the human impact of the story. When it's our time to die we often want to be alone, we all die alone. It's an individual solitaire experience--death. It was like he wanted to die but couldn't. He wasn't sure what he was anymore.
I remember being 4 or 5 your old watching RoboCop!! I still watch it still every now and then 30 years later. Epic films (Robocop1&2)!!!
Yes me too! I remember me and my mum bought my mate the robocop action figure for his 5th birthday back in 89. But I was a bit too boisterous and I broke mine. Mum and dad never replaced it, lesson learnt! 🤣
Great video. Doesn't look over 30 years old. Robocop is my FAVOURITE film of all time. Thanks for the upload.
I get why he's a scholar.
Extremely bright and naturally gifted! Someone's brain who's always working...
Wow, he actually says Verhoeven's name right, the 'oe' in Dutch is pronounced like 'oo' in English, think Spook, Groove ect. and not Verhoven like so many Americans do. 1:57
And man, why is this interview not on the Criterion DVD.
Robocop is a alltime movie...i mean...no matter what year it is now...u can watch this movie and u will enjoy it as it was back in the days !!! I love it so much!
History in the making. I dont even know how many times i have rewatched this movie through the years, ever since i first saw it in the local cinema as a kid.
Sitting in kurtwoods chair amuses me. This was a fun interview.
Robocop was great. It was very bloody and violent. You really hated the villians. They were discustingly mean, but I loved Peter's performance. I remember I went to see it by myself in NY. Peter had been in a seminar with me. I remember yelling out, "Go Pete". I am just an acquantence, but I was very proud!!!!! It was a successful movie.
Agreed. He's a true artist and scholar who's not seeking fame for fame's sake.
peter weller seems a true gentleman
You mean Doctor Weller :) he is a doctor is history now :)
@Stefano Pavone exactly !
The first native english speaker,, I'm able to understand almost everything he's telling 👍👍👍
This is VERY AMAZING interview... Peter voice is so Robocop :) I like how he described the robocop suit... and the humanity aspect of this movie... very nice thanks for upload :)
Damn.... From ALL of the Casting to ALL of the people behind the scenes. TY, this was one of the reasons my childhood was the BEST!!
Peter Weller Panel in May 2013 brought me here, the respect bar has risen for this man significantly !
My dear boy , my dog is dead and I’m the saddest guy in the world, this video just popped up and i forgot my sadneya little for some minutes, thank you
Never realised this guy had so much depth. Never take a good film for granted.
robocop 1 & 2 best ever especially since the main guy playing robo in both movies
Yes to me their are only two robo movies. And peter weller is the only robocop. That 3rd one and remake are crap and I’ll never watch them again.
@@randallreiter9679 Same. I liked some of the concepts introduced in the remake, but Jose Padilha was really cut off at the knees. He was a perfect choice for the film, but he really needed two movies and no restraints. Unfortunately we ended up with a butchered, PG-13 mess.
So handsome, so sweet)) 😍 Young Weller stole my heart))) 💕💖
This is Legendary right here!!!
I admire this great actor! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Man, not only do we not get actors like this anymore, we don't get interviews like this anymore. --- He isn't a socialite, he isn't a social media star, he isn't looking for clicks and he isn't looking to be the next blockbuster. The guy is just an actor who loves acting! And that effects the calibur of interviews he'll give, and the sort of interviewers who would approach him. I love this informal chat, how it spiders off into other subject, and how I don't feel like the interviewer is probing him for a soundbite or a headline. This is just a great clip of a decent chat --- yet lo and behold; this sort of chemistry made a movie that STILL trumps anything Hollywood are farting out nowadays. Probably because acting was done by actors back then!
As of August 2023, both 1986-7 interviewer and interviewee are both still with us at 96 and 76 respectively.
Peter weller is a film god
This is so fucking awesome!
Peter Weller will always be RoboCop
Sitting in Clarence Bodicker’s chair!!! Awesome.
Cobra Assault cannon..State of the art...bang..bang!
*LOVE* _rare_ stuff like this. Good quality too!
I tried. But I am Doing more for ROBOCOP. .
Are you a ROBOCOP FAN?
This film had such a sledgehammer impact on me in my youth. I will never forget walking through the lobby of a local movie theater and being slapped across the face by the Giant standee of an upcoming movie called robocop. I stood transfixed and knew in that very moment I had to see that film no matter the cost. Fast forward to 1987 when the film actually came out and I wasn't allowed to see it because it was a rated R film. I was like 11 years old or something which is way too young and my parents mind to go see a rated R movie. Well I still managed to go see it which I'm not proud of but I did. And it continues to influence my life in one way or another even today
Thanks alot man
damn... he was hot.
And today
I’m not into pale white dudes, but I’d get it on with this guy. At any age. He’s super sexy.
@Jennifer Jimenez, yes he was and still is very hot.
oh my god a young dr Weller
I LOVE HIS SUNGLASSESI ALSO LOVED HIM FOR YEARS! MARRY ME PETER WELLER !!!!!
I like to know more about the stuff I'm really into and Robocop is one of my favorite 80s movie right after Die Hard (is it obvious? ha!) and besides Aliens.
This is awesome, thank you so much for posting this vid.
The shiny helmet with the eye window. The gun that go bang and boom sawing people is asunder, the crane that drops stuff on people….. It’s these things that draw us into this tale of loss and hope and yet we to finding something amidst the sadness and loss. Like Murphy we to undergo a change and we find ourselves shuffling robotically down the street as it were demanding more from life with renewed vitality as we say within our new and transformed hearts, “Dead or alive.. You’re coming with me and I’m not taking no for an answer this time!” That’s the impact and the gravitational pull that brings us back to this and classic, riveting, and innovating film time and again.
Two thumbs up for you Peter!!! I'm not sure about the new version... but anyway... In my opinion, nobody does it better than the duel Verhoeven-Weller at the time!!! (So for the rest of the casting of course!) We will see... Look carefully at the 06:21 :-) or when an actor is completely investigating his role, even in the middle of his own interview!!! Once again: two thumbs up Mr Weller!!!!!!
What gets me overtime is that the movie could have taken place in 2013's Detroit. I mean the movie reflects all the craziness going on right now in a city leveled by it's corrupt politicians and poor social values.
Ha, yeah. Kwami was literally a real life version of the corrupt mayor in the film! Can't believe Trump pardoned that guy.
Peter fucking Weller! I watched Star Trek and he shows up and it made me nostalgic about Robocop! XD.
Couldn't have commented better myself. The original was quirky, strange, intense, uber-violent and wonderfully ugly depicting the crassness of Robocop's world. One of my ALL TIME favorites.
I'm actually imagining him playing trumpet in the Robocop suit. It's slightly humorous
Wow. I wish I had seen this interview when I saw the film for the first time cause it paints it in a very different light to how I thought of the film . It is actually much more than just the action movie of blood guts and violence that it seemed to be sold as at the time, but Peter Weller describes it as so much more. I shall see it in a new light, next time I watch it.
Remarkably well spoken
What a great movie.
Peter made a good call in not doing the third movie, the story and writing was horribly disappointing, I watched all the movies again a few weeks ago, and being able to really pay attention to the differences between them I see now more clearly what everyone means when they say the script was horrendous. I remember at this time they were also selling video games and toys, capitalizing on the franchise and marketing to children may have been what killed it.
He wanted to do it, he even apologized for it but he had another movie to make.
i really like their police gear/uniform. sleek.
He's from the future
excellent interview is the only and best actor of robocop...
I thank my sister to give me a link to the video. Lindsay Lacson
Director Paul Verhoeven made some gritty, unfiltered, no-holds barred movies in his native home The Netherlands before this movie. Spetters and The Fourth Man. Some of the stars in his movies played in and somewhat successful in American cinema later on.
Imagine Rutger Hauer as Murphy/Robocop, Renee Soutendijk as Lewis, and Jeroen Krabbe as Jones. That might have worked out well!
I'll buy that for a dollar!! LOL LMAO
Its funny watching these interviews that show the movies before they're classics xD
The musical score was also on par with the film
It's funny because Wygant acts like a machine towards the end of this interview.
where did you get this?! is great!
Exactly what he says here makes the original perfect how it is. The director of the new remake got it wrong, it is not about corporations taking control of humanity or men. It is about the soul in the machine (the ghost in the shell ;D) the fact the a corporation is behind the plot or circumstances in the film is not the highlight center point. The original Robocop was instant classic because it had a soul. Peter Weller understood this well which was key for an actor to be able to play the role.
Remember who BOBBIE is Sitting On Kurtwoods Chair.
Peter Weller, so underused. :(
And to think my mum and dad used to think it was Arnold Schwarzeneger in the suit back in the day. I'm not sure Arnold could speak about the film in the eloquent way that Peter does here in this interview. I may be wrong though.
he's ALIVE!!!!!!!!
Damn, he explained the plot and the true meaning of the film perfectly.
Super 🙏
ROBOCOP 1 AND ROBOCOP 2 PETER WELLER THE ORIGINAL ACTOR
Peter Weller is right actor to be roboocop
I loved him in season 5 of 24 His character Christopher Henderson was a guy you loved to hate.
Wow! Cool to see this. Robocop is one of my favorite movies. I'd never seen this before. Interesting that they faked a 2 camera interview.
LOL 15:40 Kurtwood's chair!!! :)
Miguel Ferrer and Kurtwood Smith were fantastic in their roles. I really enjoy their scenes. I'm surprised they're not more "Robocop" quotes out there. LOL
Alex Murphy's interview before joining police. :D
Officer Murphy.
i find it amusing that they are conducting the interview right next to an assload of flammable and explosive materials
OMG Humanoids from the deep lol . I saw that in a double feature with the original Friday the 13th. Humanoids was sooooo bad.
handsome man
This was an interesting interview, but it was a bit weird watching it as raw footage.
PETER WELLER VIEJITO ME FALTA EL REMAKE DE ROBOCOP 1 USTED COMO DIRECTOR EN TECNOLOGIA 12K BLACK MAGIC NO SE NOS VAYA A MORIR HASTA LUEGO
RoboCop..🔥.an human "soul" ❤️ in a macchine 💪
I Have The RoboCop Video Game on The PlayStation 2 and it's an Awesome Game
He has such a kissable mouth. Gorgeous
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
Slag
PETER WELLER OLD MAN I NEED THE REMAKE OF ROBOCOP 1 YOU AS TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR 12K BLACK MAGIC DON'T KNOW WE'RE GOING TO DIE SEE YOU LATER
And to think the Robocop movie was almost not going to be produced all because as Peter would say, "THE SUIT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK!!".
I don't get your question.
I think the reaction shots they're trying to get from the interviewer is kinda awkward. Though I think I understand why they do it.
Great point. The human aspect of that tragic character was lost on the past movie audiences. So powerful was this movie to me, it was like five years before I could watch it again! Maybe because, during the time, I was a cop. LOL Who knows? O_o
When I first saw this movie, I absolutely loved the futuristic setting and the slickness of the production (at the time Dallas doubling for Detroit). But every time I saw Peter Weller in it, I saw the nasty, unstable drug addict and drug dealer boyfriend from Firstborn that can’t hold a job and dreams of opening a restaurant. A rather disturbing movie about a lonely single parent mother to two teenage boys with her new boyfriend making their life hell.
lol, what was this? RUclips link?
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Back when he was pretty! lol
YES, absolutely true!! the remake is mainstream entertainment. i m not gonna watch it
Bobbie is sitting in Red Foreman's chair. Uh oh.
Savage Mister Good thing he knows how to fly.
MAN-BEETLE
IF HE ONLY HAD A HEART....
What an odd superficial way of fliming. Why not use two cameras from different angles - sync it up - and cut in the genuine reaction shots.
Because it doesn't work that way. 1 reporter gets 1 cameraman. This wasn't some special interview that required 2. Just a regular 'behind the scenes' look on an upcoming film.
Very bad done we only to see Peter not the another please zero professionals he do not deserved that mistreat my weller ass ever happens whit. Count talents so devalued... And to my eyes that unique film deserves awared whit really Oscars bests director. Best scripts.. Special efects and of course performer for weller what an effort and dedivation at least one oscar for. His awesome career what s shameless
So sorry foe my bad english.... But that i feel ok my point of wiev... But that Peter deserved. Be in first plane... Hes the star... Please more respect come. On. Our and my one and only agent Murphy... And do not try to be compare whit Burke. Or Eden robo 3, and the serie 94,both done the best can done... Whit the cards that.them had whit his fails but very f
Good escenes and still beta that shameless and crap of remake. That never. Could be to easy thanks to cgi im praying again for neill Blomkamp that want. A second part of Robocop 87 whlt help scripts from neumeier and miner he has been promisslng much violencie and social sátire. And tha suit ill gona the original thanks just for that neill but now the most dificult find a really good actor that. Must be looks like. Weller. He want weller but for now zero but please call her as. Asesslt and fifgt fot all this cause fans deserve it
Bobbie is in Red Foreman's chair.
very smart guy used Adam Ant and Jaques Cutso to creat Buckaroo Banzai
Can you fly, Bobbie?
13:03 This
Those sunnies are back in 2018
Does anyone know the exact date of this interview ?