Comment on New ‘Starship Troopers’ Movie in the Works from ‘District 9’ Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (Exclusive)

Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah the last thing the world needs right now is more auth/fash propaganda.

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  • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Came here to say I can’t handle his films right now

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think “propaganda” is less accurate than “thought experiment”. Heinlein centered his books around a lot of different political backdrops. Pretty sure he wrote Starship Troopers in the middle of writing the free-love-hippie-commune “propaganda” Stranger in a Strange Land.

    Still, probably best not to try to hide subtle critique in something that looks like propaganda.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Nailed it. If Heinlein loved fascism because he wrote Starship Troopers, how the hell does one explain Stranger in a Strange Land?!

      Maybe he was simply a fascist, tree-hugger, authoritarian, free love, socialist, commie, right-wing, left-wing nutcase? I grok a wrongness.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You have gravely misunderstood the politics of Stranger

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    • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I always looked at it as a demonstration of a military facist utopia. I actually wrote an outline for a prequel to it as a writing exercise in highschool and it got really good marks.

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      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I don’t think “fascist” or “utopia” are accurate descriptions. With Heinlein, his political settings are less “the world should be like this” than “hey what if the world was like this?”. Again, he wrote it in the middle of writing SiaSL, which demonstrates basically the polar opposite worldview. To interpret ST as fascist propaganda seems a bit myopic.

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      • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Your teacher was terrible if she didn’t tell you

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    • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That was the same guy?!?

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• Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I just want him to do the first movie over again. Ive read the book and while it was a pioneer I dont love it.

  I’m sorry to say it but I do want the movie of the Cadian 8th fighting the Tyranids over again just bigger, better and more hardcore. Sometimes I want dumb shooting and explosions war movies without the emotional weight of knowing that the people being shot probably didnt want to be at war either.

  Thats why I love Battle for Los Angeles. Theres no “bad guys are people too”.

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