If you haven’t read it, the sci fi action is like 10% of the book, 20% is sci fi politics, and the remaining 70% is lectures on a kind of militaristic libertarian philosophy. The only part of those that made it into the movie is the classroom scene at the very beginning, where the teacher sums it all up by saying “naked force has solved more problems than any other method”.
70% is lectures on a kind of militaristic libertarian philosophy.
That’s basically every Heinlein book. Except Stranger in a Strange Land, which is 70% “wouldn’t it be cool if I had like a harem who agreed with everything I said, also gay people are disgusting”
I think Verhoeven had already another script ready and he mixed it with some stuff from the books. He also produced a 3d cartoon named Roughnecks Starship Troopers Chronicles which adds more stuff from the books.
Pretty sure I watched most of that cartoon series, if Verhoeven added more stuff from the books, it wasn’t obvious… unless we’re talking about aesthetics and not ideas.
This is underselling it, IIRC Verhoeven claims to have read like 3 pages before saying it was garbage and that he was going to do his own thing.
If you haven’t read it, the sci fi action is like 10% of the book, 20% is sci fi politics, and the remaining 70% is lectures on a kind of militaristic libertarian philosophy. The only part of those that made it into the movie is the classroom scene at the very beginning, where the teacher sums it all up by saying “naked force has solved more problems than any other method”.
I read it a long time ago, remember the talking dogs and thinking the movie was better but not much else of note.
That’s basically every Heinlein book. Except Stranger in a Strange Land, which is 70% “wouldn’t it be cool if I had like a harem who agreed with everything I said, also gay people are disgusting”
I think Verhoeven had already another script ready and he mixed it with some stuff from the books. He also produced a 3d cartoon named Roughnecks Starship Troopers Chronicles which adds more stuff from the books.
Pretty sure I watched most of that cartoon series, if Verhoeven added more stuff from the books, it wasn’t obvious… unless we’re talking about aesthetics and not ideas.
Aesthetics, he added the skinnies and some other stuff.