I love Starship Troopers so much. The final moments are the propaganda in film begging you to sign up. They are losing a war they started, the biggest win they can promote in the film is they caught The Brain Bug and are torturing it, they got nothing
I love Starship Troopers so much. The final moments are the propaganda in film begging you to sign up. They are losing a war they started, the biggest win they can promote in the film is they caught The Brain Bug and are torturing it, they got nothing https://t.co/03vox1kPsQ
[dumb wannabe Nazi viewers seeing the top war officials show up in literal SS uniforms in the movie] “Wow, I really like these guys. I think their war is defensive and their society is just”
Stupid fascists: “A coat doesn’t make someone a Nazi ya dumb lib” Paul Verhoeven on the DVD commentary: “I am explicitly explaining this is a satire of fascist propaganda in America and Nazi Germany. I dressed up one lead character in an international manner to evoke a Nazi”
@hEnereyG So, if I’m understanding you correctly, enjoying watching a movie about giant space bugs makes you a Nazi?
@hEnereyG Well then death of the author applies here
@hEnereyG I can't help but remember a YouTube video I saw that called Starship Troopers a depiction of a "model society" and that the propaganda videos were "radical transparency".
@hEnereyG It’s ineffective and not good at satirizing.
@hEnereyG you can decorate a civilization in nazi uniform and replicate their propaganda (though this representation is not unique to nazi germany, the allies had propaganda that looked like this as well), but its the actions they take that matter.
@hEnereyG Verhoeven tried very very hard and failed miserably because the source material isn't remotely fascist.
@hEnereyG Verhoeven's intentions aren't relevant except in the narrow avenue of how he failed to fulfill them unless you're spoon-fed that intention from start. You can't 'satirize' propaganda films by playing-straight a propaganda film and hanging visual 'bad guy' markers on the protags.