From Bighollywood.com Bill Whittle discusses the failed attempt to make Heinleins starship troopers into a movie. He points out how the views of the director, about America being fascist, corrupted the movie. There is a link to Bill Whittle's movie site imbedded in the article.(http://www.declarationentertainment.com/) The link in the article didn't work for me, try the one in the brackets.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/d...of-hollywood-cant-be-trusted-to-get-it-right/
From the article:
In Heinlein’s vision of Republican government, by contrast, only those who serve their society – not only militarily, but through various forms of service that require personal sacrifice – for two years are given the right to be citizens, and only citizens can vote. No member of the population, regardless of color, creed, sex, or religion, can be turned away from service if they are willing, and every person has fundamental rights protected from lawmakers (what a novel concept!), but only citizens can vote.
Of course, to Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, these beautiful ideas are, wait for it, FASCIST!
Says Verhoeven said in an interview with AV Club, “all this playing with fascism or fascist imagery to point out certain aspects of American society…” He goes on to say, “If you were very nice to the movie, you would call it prophetic,” because of what he sees as the, “‘Let’s all go to war and let’s all die,” jingoism of the War on Terror. BushHitler, BushHitler!
So Heinlein’s political sci-fi classic is reduced to a cheep-shot at the author’s own beliefs. Verhoeven says he never even finished reading the novel.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/d...of-hollywood-cant-be-trusted-to-get-it-right/
From the article:
In Heinlein’s vision of Republican government, by contrast, only those who serve their society – not only militarily, but through various forms of service that require personal sacrifice – for two years are given the right to be citizens, and only citizens can vote. No member of the population, regardless of color, creed, sex, or religion, can be turned away from service if they are willing, and every person has fundamental rights protected from lawmakers (what a novel concept!), but only citizens can vote.
Of course, to Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, these beautiful ideas are, wait for it, FASCIST!
Says Verhoeven said in an interview with AV Club, “all this playing with fascism or fascist imagery to point out certain aspects of American society…” He goes on to say, “If you were very nice to the movie, you would call it prophetic,” because of what he sees as the, “‘Let’s all go to war and let’s all die,” jingoism of the War on Terror. BushHitler, BushHitler!
So Heinlein’s political sci-fi classic is reduced to a cheep-shot at the author’s own beliefs. Verhoeven says he never even finished reading the novel.