KYLE MACLACHLAN Y EL DESNUDO QUE PAUL VERHOEVEN NO CONSIGUIÓ ¡Escándalo oculto en 'Showgirls'! 🫨 El actor Kyle MacLachlan desvela en sus memorias el tenso choque con Paul Verhoeven al negarse en rotundo a rodar un desnudo frontal. Te contamos cómo su contrato frenó al director.👇
https://nuevoimagenesdeactualidad.blogspot.com/2026/10/kyle-maclachlan-y-el-desnudo-que-paul.html
#cine #cinema #paulverhoeven #kylemaclachlan
#paulverhoeven — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #paulverhoeven, aggregated by home.social.
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On October 4, 2013, the Rifftrax "Just the Jokes" track for Starship Troopers was released on the Internet. Here's a couple of my drawings to celebrate!
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https://www.europesays.com/conflicts/15982/ Starship Troopers Director Paul Verhoeven Reacts Space Force Uniforms #DonaldTrump #PaulVerhoeven #Politics #StarshipTroopers #USSpaceForce
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https://www.europesays.com/hu/255694/ Totál különböző filmek, amik mégis egy trilógiát alkotnak – nem hivatalosan #AHolnapHatára #ASzikla #ál/arc #BillMurray #ConAirAFegyencjárat #CsillagköziInvázió #CsillagokKözött #Entertainment #érkezés #Filmek #HU #Hungarian #Hungary #IdétlenIdőkig #kapcsolat #Magyar #Magyarország #Movie #mozi #NemHivatalosTrilógiák #NicolasCage #PalmSprings #PaulVerhoeven #robotzsaru #Szórakozás #TomCruise #TotalRecallAzEmlékmás
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On September 22, 1995, Showgirls debuted in the United States. Here's some Nomi fan art and a punk patch design inspired by the film's Japanese poster typography to celebrate!
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https://www.europesays.com/no/360965/ Ut mot Trump-uniform: – De er fascister #DonaldTrump #Entertainment #Film #kjendis #NO #Norge #Norway #PaulVerhoeven #ScienceFiction #Underholdning
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Understanding paul Verhoeven on U.S. Space Force’s ‘Starship Troopers’-Inspired Uniforms: “It’s Based on Leni Riefenstahl”
#DonaldTrump #PaulVerhoeven #politics #StarshipTroopers #GeneralNews
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Paul Verhoeven – „Basic Instinct“ (1992)Ich bin sicher, dieser sogenannte „Erotik-Thriller“ wird noch in hundert Jahren an Film- und Kunsthochschulen behandelt und seziert werden. Als Prototyp eines vom „Male Gaze“ dominierten, kalkulierten Skandals – und als Schlüssel zum Hollywood der 90er Jahre. Als Meilenstein des Kinos, aber auch als elementare Verletzung der Intimsphäre einer Darstellerin – gegen ihren ausdrücklichen Willen. Und genau deshalb: Blockbustermaterial… Mit Michael Douglas und Sharon Stone. (ARD, Wh.)
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Paul Verhoeven says “Starship Troopers ”is about ‘Nazis’ after President Trump suggests military uniforms inspired by film
Key points President Trump shared an image of potential new Space Force uniforms inspired by Starship Troopers costumes.…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #DonaldTrump #film #PaulVerhoeven #POTUS #presidentdonaldtrump #presidentoftheUnitedStates #presidenttrump #SpaceForce #StarshipTroopers #trump
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https://www.europesays.com/3253619/ Paul Verhoeven says “Starship Troopers ”is about ‘Nazis’ after President Trump suggests military uniforms inspired by film #DonaldTrump #film #PaulVerhoeven #POTUS #PresidentDonaldTrump #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #PresidentTrump #SpaceForce #StarshipTroopers #trump
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Paul Verhoeven on U.S. Space Force’s ‘Starship Troopers’-Inspired Uniforms: “It’s Based on Leni Riefenstahl”
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Trump posts US Space Force uniforms based on Nazi-inspired movie outfits
US President Donald Trump posted an image of dark “next generation” US Space Force uniforms on Sunday that…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Movies #AI #BrevardCounty #California #Colorado #donaldtrump #Entertainment #Florida #guardians #LeniRiefenstahl #nazis #NewMexico #PaulVerhoeven #SpaceForce #StarshipTroopers #TruthSocial
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Trump posts US Space Force uniforms based on Nazi-inspired movie outfits
US President Donald Trump posted an image of dark “next generation” US Space Force uniforms on Sunday that…
#NewsBeep #News #Movies #AI #AU #Australia #BrevardCounty #California #colorado #donaldtrump #Entertainment #Florida #Guardians #LeniRiefenstahl #nazis #NewMexico #PaulVerhoeven #space-force #StarshipTroopers #TruthSocial #us
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Trump posts US Space Force uniforms based on Nazi-inspired movie outfits
US President Donald Trump posted an image of dark “next generation” US Space Force uniforms on Sunday that…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AI #BrevardCounty #California #Colorado #DonaldTrump #Florida #Guardians #LeniRiefenstahl #Nazis #NewMexico #PaulVerhoeven #SpaceForce #StarshipTroopers #TruthSocial #UnitedStates #Us #USA
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https://www.europesays.com/people/219090/ Trump posts Space Force uniforms derived from ‘fascist’-inspired Starship Troopers outfits #AI #BrevardCounty #california #Colorado #DonaldTrump #Florida #Guardians #LeniRiefenstahl #Nazis #NewMexico #PaulVerhoeven #SpaceForce #StarshipTroopers #Trump #TruthSocial #US
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¿Por qué el uniforme espacial de Trump recuerda a la estética nazi? #DonaldTrump #SpaceForce #FuerzaEspacial #StarshipTroopers #EstadosUnidos #EEUU #Actualidad #PoliticaInternacional #CienciaFiccion #UniformeEspacial #PaulVerhoeven #FelizLunes #7DeSeptiembre
https://donporque.com/uniforme-espacial-de-trump-starship-troopers/
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The bit that you skip #234: Glenn Frey – You Belong to the City
When I was a kid and heard on TV shows about “nights out”, I always imagined something like the video for Glenn Frey’s You Belong to the City. Busy streets, marquees with incandescent bulbs following patterns, arcades, and stores ready to close and crawl back home, backs broken from working all day.
So when I was old enough to just saunter about by myself, I would think of this song, without ever knowing it was one of the lead singles from Michael Mann’s glitzy Miami Vice show. I was never keen on it when I was a kid and it took me a while to rediscover it.
We didn’t have a Times Square (or its surroundings) in Mexico for me to kinda recreate what the video shows, but I always imagined Insurgentes, near the roundabout or Tlalpan, although with time I think the latter was not an option. Insurgentes, however, was cool enough for Paul Verhoeven to use as a futuristic Earth in his mindbending actioneer, Total Recall.
I used to date a girl in the late 90s and our meeting place was always Insurgentes. After we broke up, I think started to visit the place and wondered if she was still there and if everything was a big misunderstanding or a bad dream. It wasn’t and eventually had to move on.
Insurgentes has changed so much over the years. It felt slightly dangerous, but never in the “ah, this is my kill-screen” sort of way. It’s not as disneyfied as Times Squares is, though, but it feels more like a mall than the funky place it used to be.
You belong to the city is the second song Glenn Frey did for a cop-themed piece of pop culture. First one was the sax-friendly The Heat is On for Beverly Hills Cop, Eddie Murphy’s megahit from 1984. If a saxophone lead-in was worth gold then, it was surely a perfect hook for You Belong to the City.
Glenn Frey, as any of The Eagles, did some great solo stuff. We can stand here all day and talk about egos, but I still think Frey’s vocals and ear for a good tune are undisputed.
-Sam J. Valdés López
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TToLgW7zuc
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https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/205457/ Virginie Efira récompensée au Festival de Locarno pour son talent #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #Cannes #Celebrities #Celebrity #CinémaFrancophone #Divertissement #Entertainment #FestivalDeLocarno #LeopardClubAward #PaulVerhoeven #people #PrixD’interprétationFéminine #RevoirParis #RyusukeHamaguchi #soudain… #VirginieEfira
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https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/203921/ Virginie Efira, de la télé à la consécration en 8 rôles-clés #acteur #ArtsEtDivertissement #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #célébrités #Celebrities #Celebrity #Cinéma #comédie #Critique #Culture #Divertissement #Entertainment #FestivalInternationalDuFilmDeLocarno #Film #PaulVerhoeven #people #portrait #réalisateur #VirginieEfira
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https://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/250207/ Virginie Efira, de la télé à la consécration en 8 rôles-clés #acteur #ArtsEtDivertissement #célébrités #Cinéma #comédie #critique #Culture #Divertissement #Entertainment #FestivalInternationalDuFilmDeLocarno #Film #PaulVerhoeven #portrait #réalisateur #Suisse #VirginieEfira
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ICYMI: Robocop Is Plugging Back In For A Recharge On Amazon Prime https://popgeeks.com/robocop-is-plugging-back-in-for-a-recharge-on-amazon-prime/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Robocop #AmazonPrime #TechnoDystopia #PaulVerhoeven #Cyborg
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Cosa rende RoboCop di Paul Verhoeven così attuale e una pietra miliare della fantascienza
#RoboCop #PaulVerhoeven #cinema #cinefilo #unocinema @spettacoli
A quasi quarant'anni dalla sua uscita, RoboCop continua a essere considerato uno dei migliori film di fantascienza mai...
https://www.tizianocaviglia.name/2026/07/22/cosa-rende-robocop-di-paul-verhoeven-cosi-attuale-e-una-pietra-miliare-della-fantascienza/13464/ -
In den 1980er- und 1990er-Jahren drehte Paul Verhoeven drei absolute Sci-Fi-Highlights. Persönlich hatte der Regisseur mit dem Genre aber gar nichts am Hut. #sfcd #starshiptroopers #robocop #totalrecall #paulverhoeven #sciencefiction
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In den 1980er- und 1990er-Jahren drehte Paul Verhoeven drei absolute Sci-Fi-Highlights. Persönlich hatte der Regisseur mit dem Genre aber gar nichts am Hut. #sfcd #starshiptroopers #robocop #totalrecall #paulverhoeven #sciencefiction
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Robocop Is Plugging Back In For A Recharge On Amazon Prime https://popgeeks.com/robocop-is-plugging-back-in-for-a-recharge-on-amazon-prime/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Robocop #AmazonPrime #TechnoDystopia #PaulVerhoeven #Movies
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LA COMIC-CON DE MÁLAGA REDOBLA SU APUESTA CON NUEVAS ESTRELLAS Y MÁS ESPACIO PARA LOS FANS
La segunda edición de la San Diego Comic-Con Málaga, que se celebrará del 1 al 4 de octubre, continúa ampliando un cartel que promete convertir la ciudad andaluza en uno de los grandes puntos de encuentro de la cultura popular en Europa.
Si quieres leer el post completo, puedes pasarte por mi blog.
#cine #cinema #paulverhoeven
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #Showgirls #PaulVerhoeven Prime Video Just Added the Most Controversial NC-17 Movie Ever Made http://dlvr.it/TTLr0T
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La futur série RoboCop donne des infos !
(Est-ce franchement une bonne idée ?)
Les infos : https://buff.ly/Zk5WD67
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"Floris | Aflevering 2/12 | De koperen hond"
(Via YouTube-kanaal https://youtube.com/@florisidszijnseries ) #Floris #RutgerHauer #PaulVerhoeven
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To celebrate Total Recall turning 36 years old recently, look forward to some follow-up posts.
Total Recall offers a glimpse in the future where ESPN, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Pepsi, Philips, Coca-Cola, and Fujifilm seem to be just some of the larger corporations which advertise very prominently.
#OTD #Movies #Film #Cinema #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick #PaulVerhoeven #Schwarzenegger #RonnyCox #MichaelIronside #Squibs
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To celebrate Total Recall turning 36 years old recently, look forward to some follow-up posts.
The protagonist "waking up" with amnesia, putting the pieces of a puzzle together while staying in a hotel filled with clues, a call from a strange contact, a dive bar, and an evil corporation. The only downside is that you can't re-watch it for the first time again.
#OTD #Movies #Film #Cinema #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick #PaulVerhoeven #Schwarzenegger #RonnyCox #MichaelIronside #Squibs
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To celebrate Total Recall turning 36 years old recently, look forward to some follow-up posts.
Our first piece of information that Douglas Quaid isn't who he seems to be is the way he manages to kill would be assassins in cold-blooded efficiency.
The film kicks into high gear from here on out, living up to the of "Get ready for the ride of your life" tagline.
#OTD #Movies #Film #Cinema #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick #PaulVerhoeven #Schwarzenegger #RonnyCox #MichaelIronside #Squibs
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Total Recall turns 36 years old today. It premiered back in 1990.
Based off "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" penned by Philip K. Dick, it earned $260+ million dollars.
It did get a 2012 remake, but I think it's safe to say the original is better received.
In honour of Total Recall, I'll be posting one or two follow-up videos.
#OTD #Movies #Film #Cinema #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick #PaulVerhoeven #Schwarzenegger #RonnyCox #MichaelIronside #Squibs
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Now watching:
'𝗧𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹'
- directed by Paul Verhoeven
- written by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon and Gary Goldman, Philip K. Dick (Short story)
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- with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox...
---#totalrecall - #paulverhoeven - #nowwatching #firstwatch - #cinema #cinemastodon #film #filmastodon #movies #moviesmastodon - #letterboxd #trakt
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B-Movie Enema's original "magnum opus" - Showgirls. This is one of those movies that I think is so bad it's good. It's certainly gained a cult following in the years since 1995 and has found a very specific niche in the LGBTQ+ community which I find very nice.
Read the review from July 2020 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-1cn
#blog #review #90s #drama #showgirls #elizabethberkley #joeeszterhas #paulverhoeven
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https://www.europesays.com/nl/157987/ Nog maar even op Netflix: deze sciencefictionklassieker van Nederlandse regisseur verdwijnt | Netflix Nieuws #Amusement #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #Dutch #Entertainment #Film #Films #FilmsDieVanNetflixVerdwijnen #FilmsOpNetflix #MarsSciencef #Movies #Nederland #Nederlanden #Nederlands #NetflixApril2026 #NetflixNieuws #NetflixVerdwijnlijst #Netherlands #NL #PaulVerhoeven #SciencefictionFilm #SciencefictionKlassieker #TotalRecall #TotalRecall1990 #TotalRecallNetflix
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #RoboCop #PeterWeller #PaulVerhoeven The Director of This 92% Rotten Tomatoes Sci-Fi Classic Once Called Its Main Character “The American Jesus” http://dlvr.it/TRCk9f
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https://www.europesays.com/fi/145241/ Arnold Schwarzeneggerin tulevaisuutta ennustaneet scifitoimintatrillerit: Total Recall ja Running Man tänään TV:ssä #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #DonaldTrump #Entertainment #FI #Finland #Finnish #PaulMichaelGlaser #PaulVerhoeven #poliisivaltio #RichardBachman #RunningMan #SharonStone #StephenKing #Suomi #TosiTv #TotalRecall #ValkoinenTalo #viihde
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CURIOSIDADES DE CINE… “LOS SEÑORES DEL ACERO” DE PAUL VERHOEVEN.
El rodaje de esta pelicula dirigida en 1985, es considerado por el propio director de la pelicula como la peor experiencia de su vida a nivel profesional, en la cual mantuvo agrias discusiones con el que hasta entonces había sido su actor predilecto, Rutger Hauer, y con los equipos de rodaje españoles, norteamericanos y…
https://nuevoimagenesdeactualidad.blogspot.com/2026/01/curiosidades-de-cine-los-senores-del.html
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The 1990 Total Recall is one of my favorite movies, and I didn't know David Cronenberg was the original director for it and created the character of Kuato and all the mutants (although it makes perfect sense). The puppet itself was created by Rob Bottin.
How Kuato the mutant was created for Total Recall without any CGI: https://www.slashfilm.com/1595588/total-recall-sci-fi-mutant-kuato-no-cgi-how
#90s #scifi #PaulVerhoeven #TotalRecall #Cronenberg #DavidCronenberg #Kuato #PracticalEffects #90sFilm #90sFilms #90sMoviss #90sScifi #Verhoeven #mutants #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #puppets #puppetry #film #films #movies
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Happy New Years!
Hopefully yours is more low key than Alex Murphy from RoboCop.
#Movies #Film #Cinema #Robocop #PaulVerhoeven #PeterWeller #RonnyCox #Squibs #HUD #NYE #HappyNewYear
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Je crois que Verhoeven est en train de gagner le prix du cinéaste le plus mal compris par ses propres fans
Après les teubés qui encensent Starship Troopers sans comprendre que c'est littéralement une satire du fascisme, voici les fan de Robocop heureux d'une statue du cyborg alors que la thèse principale du film est de dénoncer ce qui est fait à Murphy, la corruption et la privatisation de la police.
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‘Showgirls’ Nearly Killed Her Career. Now She’s Touring the World With It
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CW: Spoilers for RoboCop (1987) and Us (2019)
Originally posted to Cohost @macksting
Full disclosure, this is gonna be fairly stream-of-consciousness, and is directly reposted from a rant I said in a venting channel. I genuinely don't think any of these takes are dogshit, but am prepared to be called out for dogshit takes from this because I in fact did not carefully think this through. There are also spoilers for RoboCop (1987) and Us (2019), which I can't figure out how to conceal except by warning you now.
Compared to everything else on my mind, it's really very minor, but I suppose after a rough day like today, it's no surprise I'd be thinking about it:
If it weren't so difficult, I don't think semantically I'd bother saying I'm not human. My feelings of kinship with machines, with robots and automata, including with unintelligent machines, wouldn't be so strong if I weren't going through some shit all my life.
It's kind of incredible to me, when I think about it, that there are folks who look at me as if I were unreal, even inhuman, just for having not grown up in the socio-economic situation they did.
It's a minor point, really, compared to all the other ways people are defined or described as inhuman, but that's kind of my point. The concept of human that most folks have is weirdly tight, just this small, rigid archetype with countless exceptions that are, to them, off-model.
It's kind of weird for me to be going on about this, in a way, but like… the question of what is human, with the answer being "more than you think, and yet easily taken away unjustly," comes up a lot in the media I'm fond of. I'm rewatching RoboCop, as I am wont to do, and a making-of I saw pointed out that something that Weller did for the character, demanded for the character in fact, was moving with a dancer's precision. If RoboCop, if Murphy the robocop, moved like most folks do, he wouldn't be uncanny.That's it, isn't it. There's human, and then there's uncanny.
That comes up in Us, too. Red, Adelaide's double, is a dancer, and uses those same motions, standing on point, pivoting, isolations, etc., beautifully. And it is so beautiful. But she is so uncanny. And it's for the same purpose. Us is in fact incredibly direct about it. Both are, in a way. These are dehumanized characters, and the narrative is sympathetic whether it casts them as protagonist or antagonist.
(Shoutout to Lupita Nyong'o, whose acting in the roles of Adelaide and Red was absolutely captivating, and whose casting was absolutely perfect. All the actors in that film were amazing, the direction and writing were enthralling, and the visual metaphors and implicit historical references are not talked about enough. Folks are sleeping on this entire movie.)
I'm human, but I'm uncanny, so I am often dehumanized.
Well… I actually tend not to call myself human. It's not worth the trouble.
(At this point I would like to bring up a fascinating term, "Voidpunk." To quote a reddit community's description of voidpunk,
[blockquote] Voidpunk is a subculture for those who have been dehumanized to reclaim their dehumanization. Many are told that all humans experience romantic and/or sexual attraction, are binary cisgender, are neurotypical, are white etc. This subculture is for those who don't match that criteria of humanity and don't want to match it.
This may not be helpful or necessary for everyone, but I've had a few folks thank me for bringing the concept to their attention, and it seems relevant here.)[/blockquote]Semantically it is a very personal thing, I don't expect anyone else to adhere to it. If I call myself inhuman, it's to breathe a sigh of relief, y'know? It's to worry less. It's to give myself permission not to meet expectations.
Maybe that's part of why I get bone-deep chills when I encounter antisemitism. It's not about me, but dehumanization is something I directly experience, so it doesn't take much imagination to see how it plays out, how it applies. And, of course, if it happens to me (not antisemitism but dehumanization), generally it's not that big a deal; it's what happens to others that hurts most.
I've thought about that sometimes, that unhealthy traumatized mindset that I sum up by saying, "if someone else falls down the stairs, it's a tragedy. If I do, it's a comedy." I think part of it is, I live with me. I live inside me. So I know what I can handle, and also know that if I can't handle it, that's okay too. Other people, I cannot know how they feel, I cannot know their limits. To me their pain is limitless, their durability unclear and potentially nil. There's no sense of relief, of "it's okay, I'm still here," because I do not know what they can handle. I have heard it said that laughter is a relief, a sign that everything's actually fine; that it often comes from a moment's distress or wrongness, that is responded to with the knowledge that no harm will come of it. A fellow monkey falls out of a tree. We worry. The monkey gets up and walks it off; we laugh because they're okay. (Sometimes, it is that we laugh because they aren't okay, but it happened to someone else, so it'll be okay for us. That's kind of horrible, but demonstrates the concept nevertheless.)
The last time I watched Us with somebody, I had to hold my tongue when they, not knowing the big reveals of the story, began theorizing that the Tethered weren't human, including Red herself. That Red is simply Tethered by circumstance rather than birth is the point. It's why there's that incredibly raw exchange: "What are you people?" "We're Americans." (Which is a whole fascinating conversation all its own; that's not liberation. It's a good point about rights unjustly denied, but -- I'm getting off the subject here.)
It's shocking how little it takes to be uncanny.
Me, performing humanity:
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[ID: Scene from RoboCop. Murphy as RoboCop holds a drill. Looking away from Lewis as he prepares to remove his damaged exterior armor, he says to her, "You may not like what you're about to see." /end ID]It's extremely significant to me that, as we are sold that these uncanny characters are in fact human, and deserving of human dignities that they are denied unjustly, they do not stop moving like dancers. They continue to isolate, to pivot, to move beautifully. When RoboCop realizes he is Murphy, even though he cannot remember who Murphy was, he does not suddenly, magically begin to move fluidly like Lewis and other humans do. He still moves with a dancer's grace, even after much of his armor is removed and his tightly stretched human face becomes the face people see.
Likewise, Red never exactly stops moving with a dancer's grace. It's far more deliberate on her part, not the result of her body being a prosthesis but rather because she is an artist, so it comes and goes, but she never stops being uncanny.
It would have really undermined the rehumanization of these characters if, upon their repatriation to humanity in the viewer's eyes, they suddenly became reliably fluid, no longer uncanny, no longer strange. In the end, they still move like dancers, with uncanny precision and isolation of motion, one voluntarily and one involuntarily.
I don't exactly know where I'm going with this. It's entirely possible I've gone out of my lane, which would not be ideal nor would it be my intention.
There's a whole unwritten chapter of this about Amalthea the unicorn in The Last Unicorn, by the way, about how her uncanniness gave her away to King Haggard and captivated Prince Lir, and how she became less uncanny as she lost more of herself to the enchantment of a human seeming. Or to the voices we put on when working at call centers, to warp ourselves into something acceptable to people on the other end of the phone line, a phenomenon apparently with overlap with White Voice, and played with to create a distressing, uncanny effect in Sorry To Bother You. I'm white, and I still had to warp my way of speaking in strange ways in that job, and that kind of masking makes me feel genuinely nauseous, as does when I see alienation that produces a self-hatred of one's natural body or of harmless distinctions, like when a friend of mine talked about their mother getting rhinoplasty decades ago to make her Persian nose more white because it was fashionable and considered desirable at the time.
A lot of Sorry To Bother You made me nauseous, actually. The second half was almost a relief, as it brought the satire around to its natural absurd conclusions.
(By the way, don't spare me such things; I can't fight what I can't see, and I can tank a little nausea if it helps me identify what needs destroyed.)
Honestly, other than encouraging everyone to read The Murderbot Diaries, particularly the first (and sufficiently standalone) novella "All Systems Red," I think I've said more than I should on this subject, so I'll close here by saying that my lovely wife took ballet when she was younger, and watching her in a boffer fight pivoting and gracefully flowingly dodging and parrying was always such a joy. She remains the light of my life, and always shall be.
#MurderBot-mention #Robocop #The-Last-Unicorn-mention #Sorry-To-Bother-You-mention #Us-2019 #RoboCop-1987 #PeterWeller #LupitaNyong'o #JordanPeele #PaulVerhoeven #shoutout-to-screenwriters-Edward-Neumeier-and-Michael-Miner #ARetreadFromMy #cohost #cohost-migration -
Peter Weller in RoboCop (1987) per la regia di Paul Verhoeven
https://www.spoileralert.eu/2025/10/25/robocop/2110/#film #movie #cinema #cinefilo #PaulVerhoeven #PeterWeller #JostVacano #RoboCop #unocinema @spettacoli
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Jan de Bont: When you light in a different way, you can make the characters more interesting"
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📻 ■ Taylor Swift lanza 'The Life of a Showgirl': cinco películas para entender las preocupaciones de las estrellas del pop ■ El cine ha explorado durante […]
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From: blenderdumbass . org
Before Kevin Bacon played a much more complex man with a psychological sexual abnormality in 2004's The Woodsman, he played a man with a psychological sexual abnormality in 2000's Hollow Man. Where the fetish is voyeurism and the crime is ghostly rape. You kind of know it is a Paul Verhoeven movie from this description.
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From: blenderdumbass . org
There are ( at least ) 3 types of movies: Corporate bullshit, like the shit Disney produces now a days, which for some reason are popular as heck; smart films with a strong message, which win awards but fail at the box office; and the third type: a film with a message, disguised as corporate bullshit, to trick the audiences that it's the shit they wanna see, while a...
Read: https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/robocop_1987_foreshadows_a_lot
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Basic Instinct 1992 is Verhoeven trying to be De Palma who is trying to be Hitchcock
It is known that the best films from Alfred Hitchcock were done during the days of the code. The restrictions on nudity and graphic violence gave us iconic Hitchcockian moments like the shower scene in Psycho, where Hitch pulls of a totally kosher psycho-sexual ejaculation of ultra-violence. When the code gave way to the MPAA rating system, Hitchcock didn't really know how to react, producing mediocre films, giving way to directors like Brian De Palma who stepped into his shoes, to give us, more-modern Hitchcockian thrillers like Dressed To Kill. But by the end of the 80s, as De Palma stepped down from this Hitch-immitation role, and before Robert Zemeckis ultimately took this title with his 2000 film What Lies Beneath, there was also Paul Verhoeven and his psycho-sexual thrillers, like 1992 Basic Instinct.
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From: blenderdumbass . org
It is known that the best films from Alfred Hitchcock were done during the days of the code. The restrictions on nudity and graphic violence gave us iconic Hitchcockian moments like the shower scene in Psycho, where Hitch pulls of a totally kosher psycho-sexual ejaculation of ultra-violence. When the code gave way to the MPAA rating system...
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Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas – „Basic Instinct“ (1992)
Ich bin sicher, dieser sogenannte „Erotik-Thriller“ wird noch in hundert Jahren an Film- und Kunsthochschulen behandelt und seziert werden. Als Prototyp eines vom „Male Gaze“ dominierten, kalkulierten Skandals – und als Schlüssel zum Hollywood der 90er Jahre. Als Meilenstein des Kinos, ja, aber auch als elementare Verletzung der Intimsphäre einer Darstellerin – gegen ihren ausdrücklichen Willen. Und genau deshalb: Blockbustermaterial… (ARD, Wh)
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Directors #LarsVonTrier #PaulVerhoeven The 10 Greatest, Most Notorious Provocateurs in Modern Cinema http://dlvr.it/TMhDwP
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#RoboCop (1987) is a ‘brutal, satirical masterpiece of sci-fi action’! 🤖🔫 A cult classic that still shocks. #80sMovies #PaulVerhoeven
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A story of true leadership
Most of the arachnids appearing in "Starship Troopers" (1997) are CGI but a few life-sized, robotic models were built. However, during the battle scenes, the actors mostly wound up looking at director Paul Verhoeven himself who would stand in front of them and jump and scream, even chasing them with a broom in an attempt to generate some of the fearsomeness of a 12-foot space ant. Clancy Brown, who played Sgt. Zim, affectionately described the director as "a nutbag,"given to "jumping up and down with a bullhorn going, 'I'm a big fucking bug! I'll kill you!' I loved him; he was so much fun."
Verhoeven explained that his reasons for including the notorious co-ed shower scene were to show that for all its flaws, the Federation's army has complete gender and racial neutrality, as women and people of color are seen in high ranks with no issue. He added that the gender neutrality extends to the point where men and women shower together, pointing out that most of them are fascists without libido, too preoccupied with their military career to regard their nudity as even vaguely erotic.
When talking about the legacy of the scene in a 2014 interview with Empire Magazine, he mentioned the difficulty of including it: "It is strange, but of course Americans get more upset about nudity than ultra-violence. I am constantly amazed about that. I mean, I haven't seen any sex scenes in American film that are anything other than completely boring. A bare breast is more difficult to get through the censors than a body riddled with bullets."
Verhoeven and stars Dina Meyer and Casper Van Dien confirmed that Verhoeven and cinematographer Jost Vacano shot the co-ed shower scene in the nude themselves, on a dare from Meyer ("And it helped!" added Verhoeven). On the day of the shoot, Verhoeven had cleared the set of everyone except himself, Vacano and the cast, and asked them to do a little "fashion show without fashion" so that they could get comfortable being naked. When the cast was reluctant to disrobe, Verhoeven asked them what the big deal was, to which Meyer responded, "Paul, if it's no big deal, why don't you do it?" Quite unexpectedly, both Verhoeven and Vacano got undressed. Vacano had no problem with it, as he had been raised in nudity camps, but Verhoeven later admitted that he found it somewhat difficult; however, as he told Vacano, "Hey, we need to give an example." The effort payed off, because after an initial shock (Van Dien reportedly yelled "Oh God! Dina! Why!?"), everyone started to laugh, and the scene was filmed without problems.(IMDb)
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‘Basic Instinct’ Is Getting an ‘Anti-Woke’ Reboot by OG Screenwriter and Amazon MGM’s United Artists
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‘Basic Instinct’ Writer Joe Eszterhas to Pen Reboot Movie for Amazon MGM Studios
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