(urth) Don't Sell 'Em Short
Andy Robertson
andywrobertson at clara.co.uk
Fri Apr 13 04:03:53 PDT 2007
Transentient writes:
> I particularly liked the scene when Dina Meyer's character gets it.
> It is not often you get a scene like that in a movie that is so
> perfectly, masterfully overdone.
I agree. It's a remarkably good movie, and a skillful deconstruction of the
book.
However . . .
I wonder if any one has recorded Wolfe's reaction to the original novel
STARSHIP TROOPERS???
While I don't **like** it as a reading experience, I think Wolfe might have
been sympathetic with its ideological thrust.
The whole definition of
civilians-as-those-who-risk-their-lives-to-defend-the-polis is straight
from classical Greek culture and is the foundation of Western civilisation.
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