Daily Dialogue — July 27, 2014

The Old Man: Nice shooting, son. What’s your name?
Murphy: Murphy.

— RoboCop (1987), written by Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Robot.

Trivia: Edward Neumeier came up with the idea for RoboCop after he had helped out on the set of Blade Runner (1982), which was about cops hunting robots that looked like humans in the future. Intrigued, Neumeier turned the scenario around into a future where a cop looking like a robot would be hunting human criminals.

Dialogue On Dialogue: With that one word — “Murphy” — his character answers a critical question that has loomed since he became a hybrid robot: Who are you? Classic case of Disunity to Unity arc whereby he reclaims his humanity at the end.