‘Starship Troopers’: The $100-million movie adaptation of a ‘very right-wing book’
Paul Verhoeven’s misunderstood film, which mixed giant insects with a subtle parody of the military world, is making headlines once again with the news that, nearly 30 years later, Columbia Pictures is planning a new adaptation of the story
Science fiction cinema has presented us with two genocides, both met by their indirect victims with startling indifference. The first occurs in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, where Alderaan — no mere lost island or remote desert village, but an entire planet with millions of inhabitants — is destroyed. In what Wookieepedia describes as “one of the most cruel and vile acts of the Galactic Empire,” Grand Moff Tarkin, admiral of the Death Star, obliterates an entire celestial body in an instant, sending “an intense shock to the Force,” yet Leia Organa, princess of Alderaan, accepts the annihilation of her homeworld with remarkable stoicism.
