Starship Troopers is a movie about the Nazi ideology. From the flags and symbols to the uniforms, and even the architecture, everything looks like it came out of 1930s Germany. The military recruitment clips and news stories are influenced by Triumph of the Will, a 1935 propaganda film ordered by Hitler himself.
Verhoeven had grown up in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, and was disturbed by some of the fascist tendencies he had started to see in places like Texas in 1990s America. You might think the idea of fascism in America is ridiculous, but the fact that, in 1997, critics missed the satire and thought Starship Troopers was celebrating militarism, may have vindicated Verhoeven’s worries.
When criticism comes in the form of satire, those being criticized often can’t detect the sarcasm. Nazis would have thought that Starship Troopers was a movie about the beautiful future of the Third Reich. Perhaps Americans were unable to realize that we were being mocked, precisely because Starship Troopers’ pro-militarism hit a little too close to home.
So one commenter says it glorifies it, and you say to criticizes it, lol which is it?
Starship Troopers is a movie about the Nazi ideology. From the flags and symbols to the uniforms, and even the architecture, everything looks like it came out of 1930s Germany. The military recruitment clips and news stories are influenced by Triumph of the Will, a 1935 propaganda film ordered by Hitler himself.
Verhoeven had grown up in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, and was disturbed by some of the fascist tendencies he had started to see in places like Texas in 1990s America. You might think the idea of fascism in America is ridiculous, but the fact that, in 1997, critics missed the satire and thought Starship Troopers was celebrating militarism, may have vindicated Verhoeven’s worries.
When criticism comes in the form of satire, those being criticized often can’t detect the sarcasm. Nazis would have thought that Starship Troopers was a movie about the beautiful future of the Third Reich. Perhaps Americans were unable to realize that we were being mocked, precisely because Starship Troopers’ pro-militarism hit a little too close to home.