STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997) Breakdown | Easter Eggs, Hidden Details, Making Of & Ending Explained

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It's crazy that the CGI in this was made 30 years ago and not only holds up, but is better than some of the trash we see now.

The death of Dizzy still hurts to this day. I got to see this in theaters and the scene where Rasczak catches Rico and Dizzy and bed and gives them 20 minutes got huge cheers and howls in the theater. Dizzy was always best girl.

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"Based off the back of the novel" is a hilarious turn-of-phrase for those movies that have only a passing resemblance to their source material. Love it!

I think that the deaths of Dizzy and Zander are essential to the plot. Dizzy represents a happy life outside the military for Rico and Zander does the same thing for Carmen. Both their deaths will drive the characters to be more career focused. They have no social lives now. Their life is the military. It is quite sad.

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In the novel, the author plays a trick. You think Juan ‘Johnny’ Rico is Hispanic, but in the the end of the book, you find out he is Filipino. The point the author was making is, that in the 23rd Century, race won’t matter. Also, thanks to mass migration of Irish, English, Italians, Germans, and other Europeans in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the country was one of, if not the, most white countries in Latin America. The director admits he did not read the book, and barely used the book for inspiration.

"Its okay because I got to have you" gets me every time

Anyone who actually reads the novel will see that military service is not the only avenue to franchise in the story. There are multiple pathways. It states that federal service is a gateway to franchise. If one looks at his story, there are many lines of civil service available, not just the military. So the militaristic slant portrayed in the movie was really IMHO, pretty myopic. In his book, Heinlein's government awarded franchise to those willing to perform service to their fellow man, a right earned by showing an interest beyond ones self. Federal service was voluntary, not compulsory. His theory being that, 1.A right that is earned would be exercised with more thoughtfulness than if it is just given away willy-nilly. 2. Those who have demonstrated a desire to serve others will be less likely to abuse said right in a self serving manner than those who have no such desire. Verhoeven admitted that he never read the novel, but barely skimmed through it before making his film. So his movie is actually a poor rendition of the book, and did a great disservice to Heinlein's work. Verhoeven also portrayed the bugs as basically driven by instinct. Heinlein's Arachnids were highly intelligent "Stupid races don't build spaceships."[quote from the novel], and capable of forming alliances with other species. Heinlein was also attempting to draw awareness at the time (1950's) by his stories parallel between the western democracies and the communist countries and their various satellite states. It was also a treatise on civic virtue, and an analysis of the effect of a the lack of said virtues on a society. His best line in the novel reflected on the destructiveness of a people being focused on "their rights" and ignoring the responsibilities that go hand in hand with those rights. It was philosophically, quite illuminating. And is very applicable in todays society. The one thing that I truly missed that was different between the book and the novel, was the lack of the powered armor with gorilla sized weapons that made the trooper a very formidable foe. Also a marked difference in the way that the Mobile Infantry entered a combat theatre. They were referred to as cap troopers, because they entered combat from orbit like paratroopers, ejected from the troop transport like rounds from a rifle, and dropping through the planets atmosphere in capsules with layers that burned away, hence the term cap (capsule) troopers. Now that would have been more exciting to see than a dropship.

I was in boot camp during 911, and when they came in interrupting fire fighting training to tell us about the planes hitting NY and Washington, I remember it having that feeling when everything gets frantic and you hear "we're going to war". That scene always resonates with me now

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The first invasion happens on the planet Klendathu. It isn't very clear but after Jonny and Dizzy have their one night together, the MI troopers go to a different planet. Radcek briefs his troopers about a new Sky Marshall and a new battle plan, and tells Rico to "get your shit wired" for an insertion to "Planet P" this is where the brain bug is captured. I saw this in the theatre when I was 10 years old. It's my favorite movie. Great video, thanks! "MI does the dying, fleet just does the flying!"

One slight dissenting note: In the book, a minimum of two years of civil service is required in order to obtain full voting rights as a citizen. There are a plethora of non-military options available, including things like a "Peace Corps" and other options that were more like being a sanitation worker, social worker, etc. You just had to prove you were invested enough in society to have a clue about what the government did and how it did it in order to earn voting rights. In the book, he mentions that less than 10% of citizens had served in the armed forces. On the flip side, there was no compulsory service whatsoever, and a non-voting person was entitled to things like free health care, a basic subsistence even if they didn't work (so, nutritious food, adequate shelter, etc were considered basic human rights), and full participation in all aspects of society other than civil service (which would, by definition, move them onto the voting citizen track) and elected office (you had to be qualified to vote in order to be qualified to run for election). The movie makes military service the only way to get the right to vote because it fit into the message the director wanted to put across, but the book is far more subtle and nuanced. Heinlein also took a break to write this book in the middle of writing Stranger in a Strange Land (about a human born to astronauts traveling to Mars and raised by non-humanoid highly-psychically-advanced Martians who returns to Earth and founds a pseudo-religious movement that included polytheism, polyamory, free love, nudity, and ritual sex and was designed to awaken humanity's psychic potential in case the Martians decided to delete Earth for being too un-Martian). So, as an author, Heinlein was VERY much more nuanced, subtle, and complex than reading Starship Troopers would lead someone to believe, much less watching this movie.

Starship Troopers, very iconic cult classic and in absolutely no way ever spawned any sequels ever, whatsoever, no, truly a one of a kind film that has no disastrously boring off-shoots. Thumbs-up, stares blankly at the camera.

I did a report on Rodger Young in 1996, having grown up reading Heinlein. The school library had 3 giant books about the Medal of Honor on those that earned it... Yet Rodger Young was not listed in any of the 3. This was at the time our school had only had internet for 3 months, so it was difficult finding information. I was so mad he wasn't listed.

I'm 2:31 into your review, and yes, it does touch on these topics in the book, but not like you may remember. In "Starship Troopers" the book, Heinlen spends most of the book critiquing the society he constructed. The movie takes that to a whole different direction. In the book Heinlen explains the world government formed from veteran soldiers all over the world coming together from getting sick of fighting wars for wealthy men. To this end, to gain a vote, you must serve. Everyone starts as a private. You don't need to serve. You may own property. But you don't get a vote. Not exactly the blanket fascism described here. Edit: And EVERYONE may serve. A position will be found for the willing.

"We're the old men Ace." anyone who has ever deployed in a combat zone knows that feeling. When the new guys show up and even though you may only be one or two years older then they are. you feel like you've lived a lifetime more than they have.

Entire movie where bugs are the bad guy and not one bottle of bug spray anywhere.

29/02/2024 I watched this movie when I was a teenager. Now playing helldivers 2 and here is were I landed!