PICTURETHIS posted:I read S. troopers and it was some time ago before the movie and it read as a kind of illustration on what it means to be civic minded and its responsibilities and duties as embodied in Johnny Rico, that's what I remember, but it certainly did have descriptions on the battle suits and the bugs and another alien race, however, I remember enough to know that the film took great liberties and changed characters names and roles around and the fascistic, Nazi tone threw me off until later on I found out that this is something from his upbringing, his childhood experience that he felt strongly enough he had to include into it. [shrugs] The book was alright by me, the movie, well, I'll say this, I still have the book.
PICTURETHIS posted: What confused me was Paul Verrhoeven(?) and HIS overt fascistic tone of the movie. I couldn't understand if he was making a referrence to Americans and what was the message he was sending? If, any at all. Which demographical group? The veterans of which war? WWII, the Korean war, the Veitnam war, the Gulf war? What was he getting at? For whom?
Raven posted:PICTURETHIS posted: What confused me was Paul Verrhoeven(?) and HIS overt fascistic tone of the movie. I couldn't understand if he was making a referrence to Americans and what was the message he was sending? If, any at all. Which demographical group? The veterans of which war? WWII, the Korean war, the Veitnam war, the Gulf war? What was he getting at? For whom? Does it matter? A general illustration of the social pitfalls of war doesn't need to refer to particular examples. Whether Rico represents a typical non-Nazi German soldier of WWII or a typical American soldier of Vietnam, it's a universal statement.
