Verhoeven gamely appeared in person at the Razzies ceremony to accept his award for Worst Director ; Showgirls would later win an eighth Razzie Award for Worst Picture of the Last Decade in 2000.

It was followed by Turkish Delight ( Turks Fruit ) and Soldier of Orange ( Soldaat van Oranje ); ideas not used for the series were later included in the film Flesh & Blood, also directed by Verhoeven with Hauer in the lead role.

He went on to join an experimental troupe, with which he remained for five years before Paul Verhoeven cast him in the lead role of the very successful 1969 television series Floris, a Dutch Ivanhoe-like medieval action drama.

At the height of Hauer's fame, he was even set to be cast as RoboCop in the film directed by old friend Verhoeven, although the role ultimately went to American everyman method actor Peter Weller.

Everyone on the set, including Verhoeven, had to learn the trade as they went.

J. D. Verhoeven and A. H. Pendray published an article on their attempts to reproduce the elemental, structural, and visual characteristics of Damascus steel.

Verhoeven and Pendray had already determined that the grains on the surface of the steel were grains of iron carbide — their goal was to reproduce the iron carbide patterns they saw in the Damascus blades from the grains in the wootz.

Hauer's career changed course when Paul Verhoeven cast him as the lead in Turkish Delight ( 1973 ) ( based on the Jan Wolkers book of the same name ).

During this period, he made Katie Tippel ( 1975 ) and worked again with Verhoeven on Soldier of Orange ( 1977 ), and Spetters ( 1980 ).

From this period, Verhoeven mentioned in interviews, he remembers images of violence, burning houses, dead bodies on the street and continuous danger.

His father Wim Verhoeven became head teacher on the Van Heutszschool in The Hague and Paul Verhoeven attended this school.

Under his supervision, Calley revived two long-running franchises, the Pink Panther and James Bond films, and touched on an aspect of UA's past by giving the widest release ever to a film with an NC-17 rating, Paul Verhoeven and Joe Eszterhas's controversial Showgirls.

Dudley's career in film music has spanned 20 years and her film scores include: American History X ( 1998 ) an American drama directed by Tony Kaye and starring Edward Norton ; A Man Apart ( 2003 ) starring Vin Diesel ; Black Book ( 2006 ) a World War II film directed by Paul Verhoeven ; Bright Young Things ( 2003 ) British drama written and directed by Stephen Fry based on the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh ; Buster ( 1988 ) a British comedy drama starring musician Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb and Sheila Hancock ; The Crying Game ( 1992 ) an Irish / British drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan ; The Full Monty ( 1997 ) a Peter Cattaneo directed comedy about six unemployed steel workers who decide to form a male striptease act.

On the Criterion Edition audio commentary ( available on both the laserdisc and DVD versions ) Verhoeven recalls that, when he first glanced through the script, he discarded it in disgust.

Although both Neumeier and Verhoeven have declared themselves staunchly on the political left, Neumeier recalls on the audio commentary to Starship Troopers that many of his leftist friends perceived RoboCop as a fascist movie.

When Verhoeven came on the project he requested numerous design changes, additions to the suit which looked more like machine than man-like.

To appease the requirements of the ratings board, Verhoeven strove to reduce blood and gore in the most violent scenes in the movie, including the malfunctioning of ED-209 ( one of the executives shot to death by ED-209 ), Murphy's execution ( where his entire right arm is severed by a shotgun blast and a final overhead shot of Lewis sobbing over Murphy on the blood-soaked floor ), and the final battle with Clarence Boddicker ( in which RoboCop stabs Boddicker in the neck with his neural spike and Boddicker's blood splatters onto RoboCop's chest ).

Director Paul Verhoeven, known for his heavy use of Christian symbolism, states in the documentary " Flesh and Steel: The Making of RoboCop " ( featured on the RoboCop DVD ) that his intention was to portray RoboCop as a Christ figure.

On that note, Verhoeven was asked by a fan whether the showdown with Dick Jones was intended as a representation of Satan ( Jones )' s rebelling against Jehovah ( the OCP president ), or the Devil's subsequent fall from grace ( being fired on the spot, and then blown backwards through the window of the OCP tower to his death ).

Verhoeven replied, " It's a sharp observation, but none of that was on my mind at the time.

In the interview, Verhoeven is quoted as saying, " I am working on a movie now that is ... situated in 1914.

Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles was a CGI animated television series, based on both the novel by Robert A. Heinlein and the 1997 film adaptation directed by Paul Verhoeven, who served as executive producer for the series.

A decade after the first RoboCop movie was produced, Neumeier rejoined Paul Verhoeven to work on Starship Troopers, which was adapted from the novel with the same name by Robert A. Heinlein in 1959.

Repo Man director Alex Cox was offered to direct before Verhoeven came aboard.

Paul Verhoeven was previously attached to direct the film.

Some Dutch films have received international distribution and recognition, such as Turkish Delight (" Turks Fruit ") ( 1973 ), Soldier of Orange (" Soldaat van Oranje ") ( 1975 ), Spetters ( 1980 ) and The Fourth Man (" De Vierde Man ") ( 1983 ) by director Paul Verhoeven.

Paul Verhoeven and his father also liked to see American films, that were in the cinema after the liberation, such as The Crimson Pirate ( 1952 ).

In the DVD director's commentary, Verhoeven explained that he intentionally chose to cast Kurtwood Smith and Ronny Cox against type by making them the central villains: Cox was an actor who until then was primarily known for " nice-guy " roles such as fatherly figures, and similarly Smith had been cast as more intellectual characters.

" Rob Bottin and Paul Verhoeven, and Ed Neumeier had all come up with a concept that there would be such a potential for psychological disruption.

Hauer was introduced to Verhoeven as " maybe not such a good actor, but he will do and dare anything ".

Scholars such as Martin Verhoeven and Robert Sharf, as well as Japanese Zen monk G. Victor Sogen Hori, have argued that the breed of Japanese Zen that was propagated by New Buddhism ideologues, such as Imakita Kosen and Shaku Soen, was not typical of Japanese Zen during their time, nor is it typical of Japanese Zen now.

Although Verhoeven made one more film in the Netherlands, the response to Spetters led him to leave for Hollywood.

The film was a small success in the United States but it did help the launching of the careers of Verhoeven and the actors Jeroen Krabbé, Rutger Hauer and Soutendijk in Hollywood.

RoboCop marked the first major Hollywood production for Dutch director Paul Verhoeven.

Although he had been working in the Netherlands for more than a decade and directed several films to great acclaim ( e. g. Soldier of Orange ), Verhoeven moved away in 1984 to seek broader opportunities in Hollywood.

Filmmakers besides Paul Verhoeven who successfully began a career in Hollywood include Jan de Bont ( who started as cinematographer before directing big budget action movies like Speed and Twister ), screenwriter-turned-director Menno Meyjes ( credits include The Color Purple and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ) and producer Pieter Jan Brugge ( Glory, Consenting Adults, The Pelican Brief, Bullworth, The Insider, Miami Vice, Defiance, Love and Other Drugs.

* Paul Verhoeven, successful and often controversial director, who also worked in Hollywood

The strongest contributors to the genre during the second half of the 1980s were James Cameron and Paul Verhoeven with The Terminator and RoboCop entries.

* In the 1987 science fiction film RoboCop directed by Paul Verhoeven, ED-209, a state-of-the-art military robot, malfunctions during its presentation to the executive board of the fictional OCP ( Omni Consumer Products ).

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner.

The strongest contributors to the genre during the second half of the decade were James Cameron and Paul Verhoeven with The Terminator and RoboCop entries.