re: #84 Targetpractice

Hence why they all watched Paul Verhoeven’s adaptation of the book, totally missed that it was biting satire of the very sort of system that they do want, and ultimately think it was a serious proposal that they’d totally get behind.

Paul Verhoeven never even read the book, just like David Lynch never read Dune, that is why these adaptations are interesting on their own, but have little to do with the novels.

From what I read, Verhoeven started out doing an entirely different sci-fi project about fighting giant space bugs, which prompted the producers to seek out the rights to Starship Troopers.

Verhoeven started says he reading the book but gave up as he found it “too depressing”.

And as I recall, you have to get about 2/3 of the way through it before they start to explain how the system of Service for Citizenship came about.