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[1] Breihand, Tom "The Grisly, Goofy <i>Starship Troopers </i> [sic] Played Dumb To Make Hollywood Look Even Dumber," Deadspin, Nov. 20, 2015 (https://deadspin.com/the-grisly-goofy-starship-troopers-played-dumb-to-make-1741600229)

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[2] Flashback FilmMaking "The Making of 'Starship Troopers'" [reposted documentary footage] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkDpCDI_cZY)

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2 hour plus long video essay out the gate😂

Come correct or don't come at all!

"Fascism doesn't appeal to fascists, it appeals to people who become fascists."

This line hit me like a freight train.

The movie asks the question: "do you want that utopian society and how many mormons would you let be killed off out of sight to have it?"

"Do you want to live forever?" is a famous cry attributed to Marine Corps Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph Daly during the Battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918

The best parts were where Tyler was like "Also here's this funny thing my wife did..." it's adorable how much he loves her.

While I don't hate satire as a form of comedy, I think the big problem is that most of the people that try to write it are too... assured they don't need to make the intent clear based on assuming the audience's morals.  Like you said, it usually requires an already agreeable audience.  

As another example, Warhammer 40k started out as satire, decided to just lean into the fashy stuff, and now GW needs to do damage control because nazi's try to show up to official events.  And why? Because almost every story about the imperium is just "Hard man must make the hard choices to save the innocent from the other" over and over and over and ove with a paper thin veneer of 'this is kinda bad, huh?'.  And then books like the Ciaphas Cain series put an even more affable face to the brutal, merciless jackboots the Imperium uses to stomp out dissent.  

I think the ultimate flaw of satire is that it's written by the kind of people that think writing a message subtly is the same thing as writing it well.   "A modest proposal", one of the most pointed to examples of enduring satire, is pretty obvious in its intent, and the targets understood that it was a joke, even if they brushed off it's critiques.

(Sorry for the door stopper comment but I've been frustrated by this exact thing and thinking about it a lot lately when I got back into WH40k lol)

This is a comment on the internet

I think the cockroach stomping scene is satirical, because it's completely irrelevant to the war effort in any practical way. It's like a little pep rally or eating "liberty cabbage," basically. "The only good bug is a dead bug." Also, it's kinda telling that it's kids being encouraged to do it. If it was Aunt Mabel, the tone would be different.

Y'know, this is the first YouTube video I've seen where;
1: There's a proper bibliography
2: Stays coherent and well paced while being over an hour long
3: Doesn't treat the listener like an idiot

Thank fuck someone on this platform that isn't a company gives a shit about citations and references.
I'd ask "why don't more people on YouTube do this?" but i already know why. They're lazy, and don't think it's important to do so. So they'll either throw in a link to something that might be relevant to what they're talking about, or just not give a shit and do nothing.

The bibliography alone is enough to let me know you actually took time and effort to carefully state your conclusions, and helps me trust that you did proper research into what you're talking about.
Genuinely one of my favorite creators already

1:08:10 I’m gonna be that guy and point out how they did know it was a trap when Rico’s squad was sent in. Afterwards Neil Patrick Harris tells Rico about it and how they were sent to investigate a higher intelligence at play with the bugs

Starship Troopers also inspired Tomino who made Gundam. The gun cannon is just a big marauder

At last the prodigal essay arrives, looking forward to listening to the whole thing.

I never thought I'd see the day

Given how long this is and the relatively few views (no shade) you did this for the love of the game and can respect that.

Commenting cus i was there when F D said make a whole second channel

Yeah, ESPers were noted in the book (and were a subject of relatively serious study by US forces back then, mainly because the Soviets claimed to also have ESP troops; and it was pretty common in sci-fi too), but Johnny himself notes that he doesn't really believe that. The "ESPer" was able to trace underground bug tunnels using his ability, and Johnny notes that it might just be that he has a particularly sensitive hearing or something like that. So we are shown that it "works", and is useful to the war effort... but it's very ambiguous how much it's some magical psychic power, and hints towards a more mundane (and much more likely!) explanation.

An interesting thing with the execution in the books is the framing. The whole "episode" is about "we take care of our own" - i.e. the MI considers the whole thing their fault, takes responsibility, deals with the trial and executes the criminal. The civilian authorities are only involved in so far as they say "Yup, your issue, deal with it or we will", and everyone is appropriately disgusted. In the movie, it's clear that there is little distinction between civilian and military trials left; the military ultimately controls everything.

The treatment of the bugs really sells how this isn't really all that satirical. Verhoeven could have shown - see, this is how the bugs are portrayed in the propaganda, and in the way the (green) soldiers behave and talk... but they're actually very different from what the propaganda shows. But he didn't, other than the fairly weak point when the fleet assembles and gets shot to pieces by bug defences - which doesn't really demonstrate anything interesting about the bugs, just about the incredible incompetence of the humans. The bugs are depicted as pests in the propaganda, but also in the movie proper. It's just multiple layers of propaganda. It also has a few hints of the typical fascist cognitive dissonance, where it simultaneously asserts that the enemy is strong, and we must all fight and give everything to win... but also weak, unworthy, stupid, cowardly, animalistic. But again, there's no distinction between what the regime says and encourages, and what we actually see on the screen. Unlike the book, of course, where we see the bugs are smart, have advanced technology and use a whole lot of ambushes and other highly effective tactics, while the humans mostly focus on incredible levels of dispersion to have any chance of surviving, despite their rather advanced suits.

25:40 There's actually lot of white latinos in Buenos Aires and in the rest of Argentina, so of course they would have latinamerican last names

7:16 MAD GOD mentioned. Absolute tour de force of practical effects/Dargeresque madness

So the reason Rico suddenly plotshifts from "Carmen's dead" to "Let's go save Carmen" in the movie is because Karl psionically mindbends her location into his mind (Possibly because he knows that's where the brainbug is, not necessarily to save Carmen). It seems like Rico's not fully aware that's the reason at any point. It's nodded to (literally, I think) later by Karl when they all meet up.

This is a case of forshadowing: The ferret at the beginning is Rico at the end.