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minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·6 months agoJust for the record the movie was definitely not the same as the book- Heinlein himself was libertarian, though I wouldn’t say it comes across in the book. (The book setting is definitely fascist, or at the least authoritarian;)
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·6 months ago Heinlein himself was libertarian fascist. FTFY.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-26 months agoLet me rephrase- heinlein identified himself as libertarian.
minus-squareBananalinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoWasn’t the movie being a satire of the book a conscious choice of verhoeven’s?
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 months agoThe 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.
minus-squarebort@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months ago Heinlein himself was libertarian didn’t he change his views a couple times during his life?
minus-squareThrow_away_migrator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoI dunno, but his dirty old man era was wild
Just for the record the movie was definitely not the same as the book- Heinlein himself was libertarian, though I wouldn’t say it comes across in the book.
(The book setting is definitely fascist, or at the least authoritarian;)
FTFY.
Let me rephrase- heinlein identified himself as libertarian.
Fair enough.
Wasn’t the movie being a satire of the book a conscious choice of verhoeven’s?
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.
That makes sense!
didn’t he change his views a couple times during his life?
I dunno, but his dirty old man era was wild