Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 11 hours agoWell the movie elimanted the entire opening sequence of the book where they are just being terrorists in their super space suits (which the movie also did not include). I think that was necessary to drive the point home.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
I’ve heard that the book was sincere jingoism, which the director of the movie didn’t like one bit and turned it into clever satire of fascism instead? Haven’t read it, but the movie is great, even if there’s a bunch if idiots on both sides (fascist and antifascists) thinking that it’s sincere.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 30 minutes ago
Its bad, dude sounded like he wanted this the entire time and it really would be better. But that scene in the beginning stuck with me through the entire reading and I came out with nearly the same interpretation as the movie.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Heinlein was…rather directionless on his politics. I think it was Clarke that once remarked that Heinlein’s politics depended on who he was sleeping with - which is why you get weird whiplash from the anti-governance free-love (and incest and racism) in Methuselah’s Children and Farnham’s Freehold to a full throated defense of utopian fascism in Starship Troopers.