ROBOCOP ENHANCED REALITY PART 1

Enhanced Reality is a fictional story that takes place after RoboCop 2 and slowly begins to merge with certain events that happen in RoboCop 3. This is an alternate story, a “what if” scenario that presents and combines characters with circumstances that feature in the two sequels to the original movie with the purpose of demonstrating a different ending to the saga.

This story presents new fictional characters, places and situations that compliment and expand on the original storyline from the movies.

Although the original two main characters and the inception of RoboCop remain untouched, this follow up story has been moved forward to modern times. Topics such as artificial intelligence, social media and complex technologies were adapted into the RoboCop universe.

RoboCop won’t lose his identity based on the way he looked in the movies. Never-the-less, he will go through a more internalized transformation throughout the story, both emotionally and physically. The painful journey of self-discovery and the uncertain path for him to see whether it is still possible to live as a man despite being robbed of his physical humanity is not over yet.

Although Alex Murphy was given a second chance to live as a mechanized police officer, the combative body given to him is a cruel metallic prison that was designed for him to endure gunfire, not to embrace life. This presents a lot of philosophical conflicts for him.

Disabilities, prosthetics and bio-ethics are closely connected. How artificial can someone get before they are still considered a person? Is there a percentage of artificial reconstruction in which, the person that survives inside a robotic, prosthetic body and still be considered as a person? Or is it simply down to how high the percentage of being mechanized is?

At what point do we say that a being possessing some organic components which survive inside a machine can be recognized as a person with legal rights?

In a dystopian futuristic world where technology and financial ambition seem to take precedence over human rights, the story presents certain bio-ethical dilemmas regarding the way humans relate to cyborgs and robots in a closer, personal and in some cases more sexual way in addition to the psychological implications of them.

What happens inside the mind of a person that has decided to reveal or to discover how much the essence of someone whose physical form has changed so much but still survives inside a complex machine? Can Lewis begin to fully understand that?

The psychological depth of the interspecies relationship between RoboCop and Anne Lewis which would inevitably evolve over time is at the heart of this story.

Human interactions have rapidly evolved over the last few decades. Technology is a key element that has redefined interpersonal relationships as it is a way to have a higher range to reach and meet people that otherwise would have been impossible to meet in the past.

People have relationships through machines and gadgets now, this is the era of communications and perhaps in the near future dehumanization will eventually lead to people connecting to machines directly. This is because it is easier to control an inanimate being rather than waiting for a person to voluntarily walk into their lives.

Enhanced Reality also wants to rescue the lost R rating that was originally presented in the first and second movies. RoboCop was born out of the necessity to combat the high crime rate in a decadent city where human lives seem to be worthless.

The original concept is obscure and was not aimed at young audiences, however, the spectacular portrayal of the character in films helped build an audience of children and teenagers that became fanatics and the R rating of the RoboCop franchise was turned into PG13, making it a lackluster as a result.

However, the original movie fan base has grown up now and consists mostly of people in their late 20’, 30’s and 40’s.

It is time for RoboCop’s new stories although non-canonical to revert back to the adult themes that was originally envisioned for the franchise and that ultimately makes the original movie such a classic that its timeless in its own right.