• Banana
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    27 months ago

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

    • FuglyDuck
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      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.