This film is based on a real story that took place in Big Bay, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. It’s where the film was shot as well. Many of the locations in the movie, the bar, the courtroom, even the lawyer’s office/home were all actual places involved in the original case.
Contrary to what many fans of the film think, the scientists at OCP (the fictional company that made him) did not actually put Alex Murphy’s head onto a cyborg body. It was explained by the filmmakers that what they actually did was that OCP put his brain into a cyborg body and then graphed Alex Murphy’s face onto it.
This was done in the story, because even though Robocop would have no memories of his former life as Sgt. Murphy, there would’ve been enough residual humanity left in his brain that he would consciously know he was human. If he were to look into a mirror (with no memories of his past to confirm this feeling), and were to see a mechanical face, then he was have a complete psychotic break and go insane.
They gave him his original face, so that his mind could recognize its humanity.
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