Tarantino gets the credit but Paul Verhoeven was already putting people in a chokehold with his scenes years earlier
Paul Verhoeven before Tarantino
Paul Verhoeven
Paul Verhoeven, born July 18, 1938, in Amsterdam, is a Dutch filmmaker whose career has spanned the Netherlands, Hollywood, and France.
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Paul Verhoeven wanted more nudity in Total Recall, but Sharon Stone said no. Years later on the DVD commentary for Basic Instinct, he joked that casting her there was his revenge for the refusal. It feels like male ego…
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Neil Patrick Harris confirmed the old Starship Troopers set story is real, Paul Verhoeven would chase the cast with brooms and scream "I'm a fucking bug" through a megaphone during battle scenes. Harris called him a cool…
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Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop (1987) is far smarter than its pulpy cyborg-cop premise suggests. The film skewers corporate America, television culture, and unchecked capitalism while simultaneously delivering one of the…
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Kurtwood Smith turns 83 today. As Clarence Boddicker in Paul Verhoeven's 1987 classic *RoboCop*, he transformed a run-of-the-mill crime boss into one of the most terrifying villains of the decade,armed with nothing more…
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In Paul Verhoeven's 1987 classic 'RoboCop,' Kurtwood Smith has an unforgettable scene opposite Joan Pirkle, who portrays Barbara, Dick Jones' secretary. What makes the scene even more intriguing is that Smith and Pirkle…
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