• FuglyDuckEnglish
    13•7 months ago

    Just for the record the movie was definitely not the same as the book- Heinlein himself was libertarian, though I wouldn’t say it comes across in the book.

    (The book setting is definitely fascist, or at the least authoritarian;)

    • @masquenox
      3•7 months ago

      Heinlein himself was libertarian fascist.

      FTFY.

      • FuglyDuckEnglish
        4•7 months ago

        Let me rephrase- heinlein identified himself as libertarian.

    • Banana
      2•7 months ago

      Wasn’t the movie being a satire of the book a conscious choice of verhoeven’s?

      • FuglyDuckEnglish
        3•7 months ago

        The movie was satire, but they bought the naming rights after establishing most of the movie script to avoid an copyright/IP infringement battle.

        It was extremely similar, but it’s more accurate to say it was an entirely separate work than not.

        Verhoeven meant it as a commentary on the US militarism rather than on heinlein.