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MineralMan

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Thu Aug 9, 2018, 04:51 PM Aug 2018

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Men (and hot women, too)! Enlist in the US Space Farce Today! (Original Post) MineralMan Aug 2018 OP
A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies... Glorfindel Aug 2018 #1
Suddenly I feel my bonespurs acting up! dameatball Aug 2018 #2
Kill anything that has more than two legs!!! central scrutinizer Aug 2018 #3
Ya beat me. Eko Aug 2018 #4

Eko

(7,384 posts)
4. Ya beat me.
Thu Aug 9, 2018, 08:02 PM
Aug 2018

This is why that is the perfect movie for this.
"Because the movie originated from an unrelated script, with names and superficial details from the novel being added retroactively, there are many significant differences between the original book and the film.[7] While the original novel has been accused of promoting militarism, fascism, and military rule,[8][9] the film satirizes these concepts by featuring bombastic displays of nationalism as well as news reports that are intensely fascist, xenophobic, and propagandistic.[7]

Verhoeven stated in 1997 that the first scene of the film — an advertisement for the Mobile Infantry — was adapted shot-for-shot from a scene in Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will (1935), specifically an outdoor rally for the Reichsarbeitsdienst. Other references to Nazism in the movie include the Nazi-German-style uniforms and insignia of field grade officers, M.I. working uniforms reminiscent of Mussolini's Blackshirts, Albert Speer's style of architecture, and its propagandistic dialogue ("Violence is the supreme authority!&quot .[10]

In a 2014 interview on The Adam Carolla Show, the actor Michael Ironside, who read the novel as a youth, said that he asked Verhoeven, who grew up in Nazi-occupied Netherlands, "Why are you doing a right-wing fascist movie?" Verhoeven replied, "If I tell the world that a right-wing, fascist way of doing things doesn't work, no one will listen to me. So I'm going to make a perfect fascist world: everyone is beautiful, everything is shiny, everything has big guns and fancy ships, but it's only good for killing fucking Bugs!"[11] "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film)

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