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Note: fully aware of the irony of this gif, not to mention the wild contrast between the book and film. That being said, the movie is better.
Just for the record the movie was definitely not the same as the book- Heinlein himself was libertarian, though I wouldn’t say it comes across in the book.
(The book setting is definitely fascist, or at the least authoritarian;)
FTFY.
Let me rephrase- heinlein identified himself as libertarian.
Fair enough.
Wasn't the movie being a satire of the book a conscious choice of verhoeven's?
The movie was satire, but they bought the naming rights after establishing most of the movie script to avoid an copyright/IP infringement battle.
It was extremely similar, but it’s more accurate to say it was an entirely separate work than not.
Verhoeven meant it as a commentary on the US militarism rather than on heinlein.
That makes sense!
didn't he change his views a couple times during his life?
I dunno, but his dirty old man era was wild
What is this even from.
Starship Troopers
Thank you
At best the movie seems too Poe's law for me.
I'm sorry, I like most of what you said, but I can't in good conscience upvote someone who thinks the movie was better than the book. It's a fun movie, but, come on...
I don't know which book/movie this is, so I'll just talk about Jurassic Park instead.
Timmy didn't do his part to help Dr Grant and Ellie Sattler hold the door from the raptor as Lex fiddled with "a unix system! I know this!"
Timmy just danced like he had to pee.
It's Starship Troopers. A sci-fi novel that was later adapted into a movie series. Notably the first movie is a parody of the hyper-militaristic, borderline fascist undertones of American style democracy. The book, on the other hand, was popular in the 1960s.
Starship troopers