• Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    The movie is different from the book tho. The movie is practically a parody of a war movie that makes fun of Earth’s hyper-militaristic and fascist government. The aliens are insect like and more savage and are just defending themselves against some stupid humans.

    In the book, the aliens are much more humanoid and are a rival hypermilitaristic empire that is fighting against the humans, who are also hypermilitaristic, but good, because the creator was a fascist weirdo. There is also a second faction of aliens in the books who switch sides to help the humans after their capital is bombed.

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      The movie is different from the book tho.

      This is underselling it, IIRC Verhoeven claims to have read like 3 pages before saying it was garbage and that he was going to do his own thing.

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        I think Verhoeven had already another script ready and he mixed it with some stuff from the books. He also produced a 3d cartoon named Roughnecks Starship Troopers Chronicles which adds more stuff from the books.

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          Pretty sure I watched most of that cartoon series, if Verhoeven added more stuff from the books, it wasn’t obvious… unless we’re talking about aesthetics and not ideas.

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          70% is lectures on a kind of militaristic libertarian philosophy.

          That’s basically every Heinlein book. Except Stranger in a Strange Land, which is 70% “wouldn’t it be cool if I had like a harem who agreed with everything I said, also gay people are disgusting”