Re: The Bugs in the "Starship Troopers" film

:: Hm. How did USian spin handle Pearl Harbor?

: "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
: What does it matter? Pearl Harbor didn't really need spinning.

It didn't? I dunno, I recall some pretty smug demonization in films,
newsreels, and related stuff I've seen from the era. And didn't the US
provoke that intentionally, just like with the Bugs? My point was "hoomans
provoked/demonized the bugs" is not exclusively analogous to demonization
of the jews by the nazis. And indeed has a *bit* more in common with
the WWII demonization of the Japanese.

I dunno. The problem for me was considerably more subtle than just
"aaaaaakk, it's nazi propaganda!". It's more an issue of... the
feel of it all. In the book, I get the idea that the higher-ups are
simultaneously more competent and less smug than the movie depiction.
The book had a "no plan survives contact with the enemy" feel, while the
movie had a "brass is totally out of touch, and stupid and inbred to boot"
feel, reinforced by several cues in several scenes, which I recall noting
at the time but am not sure I could enumerate without seeing the movie
again, which doesn't strike me as worth it. The movie tends to take a
mocking attitude, not unakin to the mockery in the commercials and news
snippets in Robocop. An attitude notably absent from the book.

The depiction of the high command and infrastructure was more akin
to Steakly's "Armour" than the ST. "Armour" lacks the mocking tone,
but is otherwise more similar.

Perhaps this is unfair of me. But to me,
the book and movie ST seem to be miles apart.


Wayne Throop throopw@xxxxxxxxx http://sheol.org/throopw
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