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From: gordon@bu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: How about RoboCop
Message-ID: <13610@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 15:42:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 15:42:22 1987
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In article <4328@spool.wisc.edu> jojo@speedy.WISC.EDU (Jon Wesener) writes:
>	PS.  And don't forget ROBOCOP.
>jon wesener

  Yes, yes,
     I have been giving some thought to this "nitty gritty world view".
  As a theme it seems to me to be best illustrated in the contrast 
  between a character's "nitty gritty" environment and an idealized
  environment which the character has lost or merely dreams about.

     - "RoboCop"  RoboCop explores the empty house where he and his
                  family lived before he was gunned down.  
     - "Blade Runner"  The dopey replicant who is so attached to the 
                       photographs, to him the photographs represent 
                       the human relationships he never had. 
     - "The Fly"  Seth Brundle babbles about "Insect Politics" and warns
                  his ex-lover to leave before he hurts her.  
     - "Brazil"  The contrast between the protagonist's knight/damsel/monster
                 fantasy world and his real life in the techno-beaurocracy.

     To sum up, an important element of this genre for me is the 
  portrayal of dehumanizing situations in a world where
  people are much too naive of, or victimized by, the technology they
  are living with.
  -- 

                                Gordon Lee
                                Distributed Systems Group
                                Boston University