1784

I was going to guess Rocky until I hit clue #5, LOL

1785

Robocop

Which if correct would mean that Ed Nuemeier was a PA on… Blade Runner? And then one day Rutger Hauer said ‘let me introduce you to my friend Paul…’ ? :)

1786

Nope, not Rocky.

I’ll buy that for a dollar!

Which if correct would mean that Ed Nuemeier was a PA on… Blade Runner? And then one day Rutger Hauer said ‘let me introduce you to my friend Paul…’ ? :)

  • Screenwriter was inspired to write this when, as a PA, he wandered around another groundbreaking movie set in the same genre

Yeah, according to… maybe it was a DVD featurette? Or Los Angeles Plays Itself? Or some print interview somewhere, Ed-209 Neumeier* roamed around the Blade Runner set, thinking about dystopian futures and human cops** hunting down robots, and then thought about flipping a story, because of originality, to a robot cop hunting down bad guys. That’s a funny connection about Rutger and Paul, who a year later (after Blade Runner) were working on Flesh + Blood together.

  • The main character became such a folk hero that the real city is putting up a statue of him

And after many fits and starts, Detroit almost has it ready!

  • The character was also immortalized in one of the works of Brandon Bird

http://www.brandonbird.com/supper.html
Here, though note that, “…this was a commission for Rich Kyanka, back when [the artist] did commissions. We are both well aware that James Woods did not play Robocop.”

  • It took many tries before the movie had its theatrical release with an R rating. Before that, it was facing an X.

Too violent! The first sequel, even more violent but still R! Then the next sequel, PG-13!

  • One character reads a book, “Schaum’s Outline Series Principles and Problems of Plane Geometry with Coordinate Geometry”. The director wanted the character to resemble himself when he was a younger man studying mathematics.

Verhoeven apparently studied math in the Netherlands back in the day before going into film.

Dead or alive, Gordon is up next!

* I do not know if Ed Neumeier ever went by “ED-209”, but maybe he should have
** More proof on the “Harrison Ford is human, not a robot” side of the ol’ Blade Runner argument

1787

I think Rutger and Verhoeven had already worked together on A Soldier Of Orange before Blade Runner, btw.

Time to rustle up another movie!

1788

There we go, then! I haven’t seen any of Verhoeven’s Dutch-language work yet. One of these days!

1789

Flesh + Blood is a goddamn masterpiece, by the way.

1790
  1. Blue eyed killer
  2. Campfire debate
  3. Statuesque blonde
  4. Suicide jumper
  5. Spoken prayer
1791

For some reason this makes me think of the Toby Macguire Spider-Man

1792

Sin City?

1793

Midsommar

1794

l like this guess. l think it fits at least the first three clues, maybe the fifth. What do you have in mind for the fourth?

By the way, yes, the unlikely bully in Chinatown was Polanski. Always thought it was a very funny choice.

1795

It’s a huge stretch, but maybe Benecio Del Toro’s character, who didn’t set out to commit suicide but, through his actions, sealed his fate? I dunno, I thought it would be a close-enough guess.

1796

All incorrect!

1797

Stand By Me?

1798

Nope!

  1. Blue eyed killer
  2. Campfire debate
  3. Statuesque blonde
  4. Suicide jumper
  5. Spoken prayer
    6. Crumbling skeleton
1799

It sounds a bit like Yellowbrickroad.

1800

I don’t know of that movie, so, no!

1801

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?

1802

Nope!

You’re on the right track, though, in the sense that this is not at all an obscure film and probably everybody here has seen it.

1803

Lethal Weapon?