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minus-squareFuglyDucklinkfedilinkEnglish13•11 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-square@masquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•11 months ago Heinlein himself was libertarian fascist. FTFY.
minus-squareFuglyDucklinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-211 months agoLet me rephrase- heinlein identified himself as libertarian.
minus-square@bort@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink2•11 months ago Heinlein himself was libertarian didn’t he change his views a couple times during his life?
minus-square@Throw_away_migrator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•11 months agoI dunno, but his dirty old man era was wild
minus-squareBananalinkfedilink2•11 months agoWasn’t the movie being a satire of the book a conscious choice of verhoeven’s?
minus-squareFuglyDucklinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-211 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.
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.
didn’t he change his views a couple times during his life?
I dunno, but his dirty old man era was wild
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!