please note that the (*) thing in the title is there with good reason. at time of writing, look you see, one US dollar, or if you like $1 or US$1, converted to 79p in British Pounds Sterling, or if you also like real money, to be sure. quite a formidable week awaits our ruling classes. this is a week in which our economy and way of life is widely expected to completely tank and be left all FUBAR, but i have heard this all before.
and so, anyway, moving on. yes, to the point. recently i had reason to be in one of those former fast food outlets, now some sort of gaudy, gentrified, artisan posh eateries called McDonald's. oh, how life was simpler when you just walked in, ordered your food, paid and left, but no matter. anyway, on this instance, they had a table set up, selling some (presumably) donated books for (i assume) a charitable cause.
since i like both books and "doing my bit" for charity or other such noble causes (recently i donated an amount similar to that mentioned in the title towards some sort of school in Dudley or similar), i had a browse. and it was just as well that i did, for if i had not then i would not have spotted this.
oh, yes, indeed. now you get the "i'd buy that for a dollar" comment, for it is a novelisation of the screenplay for the motion picture RoboCop what i purchased. such novelisations were quite popular in the 80s, and i have (or at least had, i fear many have been lost or donated over the years) many of them. but never this particular one, so i was quite delighted to see it.
cost? they asked for a mere 50p, but i was so delighted that i gave more. steady on, not that much north of the suggested donation, but still. as battered and well worn as it seemed to be, i wished to have it.
a glance or a flick through the book has given every indication that it is faithful to the (original) film we all know and love. unlike the horrid remake. although, oddly, this is a heavily sanitised adaptation. descriptions of violence in the novel are rather tame, and so far as i can work out all foul and explicit language, bar some curses uttered of a blasphemous nature, feature not.
which reminds me of something wonderful - the edited for television version of RoboCop. strange, it was, but also really good. the strength of the movie - just how good a film and narrative it really is - can be seen in this "cut to ribbons" version. with all obscenities gone and the visual violence largely removed, it remained a wonderfully watchable movie. one that all can enjoy, since i watched this edit with Gran and she loved it.
i do wish i could find that edit again. my (considerably) better half has made it clear that i am not allowed to hold screenings of RoboCop for the boys in all its uncut gory glory. but, i protest, it is a masterful film. had i still owned the watered down to make it suitable for all VHS copy of the tv edit, i could have them watch it again and again. not to be, alas. yes i have looked online for it, and no i cannot locate it.
so, well, yes, anyway. you all probably have other things to do right now, and so i shall leave this here at that. but, most splendid of days if anyone has found this of some interest.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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