Sargon of Akkad made a video a while back where he talks about how the Starship Troopers film was supposed to be a satire of fascism and militarism, but it unintentionally made those things look awesome instead.
It did, a preteen boy I came out of the movie thinking “Man that whole citizenship guarantees service makes sense”. Then I read the book...and my mind didn’t change.
What's funny is that in the book, the military is even more segregated by gender than our current military is. The mobile infantry is entirely male, while women tend to be naval officers. The explanation had something to do with women being better able to handle space flight. But the book was written in the 1950s so the science Heinlein used might be outdated.
I'll bet the book was ok. Every movie gets the current generation's culture injected into it. I'm sure if they made it today, we would have Tranny-ship troopers and everyone would be making the case for why "the bugs" should win as 41% of our team blows their own heads off.
Yep and Heinlein depicted women in the book as generally superior in the mathematics department (IMO a departure from real life but RAH liked to be edgy) so they ended up in naval command positions more frequently.
Well it says fascism is bad, so maybe that is why you subconsciously didn't like it?
Sargon of Akkad made a video a while back where he talks about how the Starship Troopers film was supposed to be a satire of fascism and militarism, but it unintentionally made those things look awesome instead.
It did, a preteen boy I came out of the movie thinking “Man that whole citizenship guarantees service makes sense”. Then I read the book...and my mind didn’t change.
No.... because it put men and women on a battlefield in equal roles... which was all the rage at the time.
What's funny is that in the book, the military is even more segregated by gender than our current military is. The mobile infantry is entirely male, while women tend to be naval officers. The explanation had something to do with women being better able to handle space flight. But the book was written in the 1950s so the science Heinlein used might be outdated.
I'll bet the book was ok. Every movie gets the current generation's culture injected into it. I'm sure if they made it today, we would have Tranny-ship troopers and everyone would be making the case for why "the bugs" should win as 41% of our team blows their own heads off.
God damn that was savage, lmao.
Humans were the villains in the actual movie.
Yep and Heinlein depicted women in the book as generally superior in the mathematics department (IMO a departure from real life but RAH liked to be edgy) so they ended up in naval command positions more frequently.
He wanted to show coed showers