![]() ![]() ![]() The original Starship Troopers novel spent more time talking about politics than it did exploring the details of future warfare still, Heinlein's book wound up shaping the archetype of the "future super-soldier" for decades to come in sci-fi novels like Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, James Cameron's Aliens movie, and practically every FPS video game with a Space Marine protagonist. ![]() In the book, we are living in a quite a kind of liberal, tolerant, benevolent. While very different in tone, both the Starship Troopers books and movies follow the same plot in broad strokes on a far-future earth governed by a Terran Federation, a teenage hero named Juan "Johnny" Rico joins an Earth Defense Force called the Mobile Infantry and fights in a war between Earth and a species of alien lifeforms colloquially called Bugs. The difference between the movie adaption and the novel couldnt be more extreme. Related: Aliens: Fireteam Elite's Season 1: Phalanx Class Kit & New Weapons On release, many fans of Robert Heinlein criticized Verhoeven's adaptation for portraying the Mobile Infantry as incompetent, fragile cannon fodder who lacked the Mecha suits of the book and games. Cool military gear aside, the book and film were completely inverted as well while the Starship Troopers book was a Cold War allegory about the clash between the Western and Eastern Blocs, the Starship Troopers movie was a dark satire about the dangers of fascism and glorifying violence (to the point of invoking imagery from the old Nazi propaganda film Triumph Of The Will). More people these days are familiar with Starship Troopers from its 1997 film adaptation by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven. ![]()
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