Come on you apes Do you wanna live forever Theyll keep fighting and theyll win These are the rules.
![]() Starship Troopers Game Full Scale WarWhat they dont know is that theyll soon be engaged in a full scale war against a planet of alien insects.Heinlein novel. That novel is as militaristic and fascistic as it gets.This movie Well, upon its release, many critics saw it as a celebration of fascism. Theres no way to not reveal my politics as I write about this. I usually keep that out of these articles, but a constant source of worry for me is that our universe has done more than slide to the right; weve seen Nazi and fascist ideologies written off as some good people. I have no idea how anyone can watch a movie where Doogie Howser is wearing full SS regalia and see it as an endorsement of militaristic ideology. In the DVD commentary, the director states that he evoked Nazi Germanys fashion, iconography, and propaganda because he saw it as a natural evolution of the United States after World War II, and especially after the Korean War. Obviously, if we believe conspiracy theory, the Nazi powers that be became part of our CIA, NASA and militaryindustrial complex. As manifest destiny takes mankind into the stars, they discover arachnids, called bugs. While its never outright stated, it seems like the bugs are several steps down the evolutionary ladder from humans and would have never attacked us if wed just left them alone. On Earth, citizenship in the one world government is a privilege that only comes from military service. Thats how Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) joins up, trying to win the heart of pilot Carmen (Denise Richards). Then theres Dizzy (Dina Meyer), who is the way better choice, but as shes more masculine, Johnny never sees anything in her until its too late. They also have a friend named Carl Jenkins (Neil Patrick Harris) whose psychic ability means he will be one of the ruling class. The film unfolds in episodic form where we progress from basic training to initial battles with the bugs to the first meeting with one of the more intelligent members of their species, a brain bug. Throughout, commercials and military propaganda fill the screen, always ending with Do you want to know more Thats ironic - real, uncontrolled information does not exist and executions air live on TV at 6 PM. This is the government-controlled media empire that we are constantly spiraling closer and closer to. Every time Starship Troopers hints at the fact that humanity is doomed and that were in over our head - like the disastrous battle on Klendathu - these messages nearly erase those feelings. And one only has to look at the climax of the film, where an army of masculine warriors gathers around a very female creature and celebrate the emotion of fear as people celebrate in a moment that should be the emotional feel-good close of the film. But its hollow. And its wrong. And the emotions that it makes you feel are false, put in there to teach you a lesson.
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