Detroit doesn't need a Robocop statue
Warner Huston at Big Journalism tells how a writer for Slate named Patrick Cassels thinks Detroit actually needs a statue based on Robocop, a movie I'd watched in my youth, but, while I may have thought it was enjoyable back in the day, I see as little more than an absurdly anti-capitalist piece of propaganda today that completely refuses to come to terms with how leftist politics are what destroyed Motor City, not Reaganomics. And Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch-born director who worked on this flash-in-the-pan nonsense, even admitted later that it was supposed to be an attack on Christianity!
Detroit does not need a statue dedicated to such a gallingly written movie (which wore out its welcome faster than you could fry an egg, just like Roger Rabbit), unless its for the birds to shed their droppings on. If they do need a statue, it should be devoted to people like Ransom C. Olds, Louis Chevrolet, David Dunbar Buick, and Walter Chrysler. Unfortunately, if the municipality does decide to devote a statue to anyone, I suspect it'll be to that horror of a socialist racist, Henry Ford.
Detroit does not need a statue dedicated to such a gallingly written movie (which wore out its welcome faster than you could fry an egg, just like Roger Rabbit), unless its for the birds to shed their droppings on. If they do need a statue, it should be devoted to people like Ransom C. Olds, Louis Chevrolet, David Dunbar Buick, and Walter Chrysler. Unfortunately, if the municipality does decide to devote a statue to anyone, I suspect it'll be to that horror of a socialist racist, Henry Ford.
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