Starship Trooper s by Robert A. It is written is a first person narrative from a young recruit Johnny Rico. He flashes back to his high school years where he was a young man intent on joining the military with his friend Carl. The whole reason that the humans have to fly out to space and kick some bug butt is because of the bug's supposed attack on Buenos Aires.
However, it's not like that was really that far fetched. We declare genocide on invasive species of bugs when they ruin our crops and infest our homes, so if they did decide to blow up the capital of Argentina, we're pretty sure that people would start attacking them with assault rifles.
Any true patriot knows that the news about Buenos Aries is broken to the citizens of earth in a particularly memorable piece of propaganda, showing the devastation and carnage of the bug attack as buildings are ablaze and the screams of the wounded can be heard. However, this scene is actual real. The propaganda broadcast used footage from the Oakland Hills Fire in , which burnt down thousands of homes and killed 25 people.
If you haven't gathered by now, Paul Verhoeven really likes portraying war in his movies based on his experiences as a child. Growing up down the street from a secret Nazi missile base and fearing for your life every time a plane flies overhead will probably do that to you. However, occasionally Verhoeven's memory was a bit too vivid, especially for the producers of Starship Troopers. Verhoeven wanted to make the age of the soldiers in the movie reflect the age of soldiers in the real world, which would have made them extremely young.
The producers wouldn't let Verhoeven cast teenagers and children, though, because they though that it would be too disturbing for audiences. We suppose you can't blame a guy for trying-- he wanted the movie to be as realistic as possible. The bug planet is a desolate desert wasteland inhabited by some of the meanest multi-legged baddies ever conceived for the silver screen.
Obviously, that means that the scenes on the bug planet had to be filmed in a real world desert, which as you also may know, is extremely hot during the day. The desert was so hot in fact, that several actors and members of the crew were constantly passing out from heatstroke. So the crew members who weren't passing out had the idea to cut holes in the backs of their bulky, dark colored uniforms for better ventilation. This is evident from the shot above, which depicts the groups of soldiers facing forward.
Had they been turned around, their bare backs would be viewable. Another solution could have been to choose another setting to shoot from, but what do we know?
Rico is the man-- he kicks some serious bug butt, and even makes it out of the hive at the end of the movie. However, things weren't so great in real life. When Casper Van Dien, who portrays Rico, went to pick his daughters up from school shortly after the movie came out, he was shocked when two of their classmates immediately recognized.
Apparently, there a lot of fanfare to Casper's surprise-- and his daughters horror. Many younger boys saw him as a hero and thought he was awesome. However, due to a revealing scene in the movie, this also meant that a lot of Van Dien's daughters' classmates had seen a bit too much of him, and didn't shy away from telling the girls about it.
It doesn't seem like a big deal, but imagine going through your school days having to hear about your dad's butt. Yeah, it hurts. Register Don't have an account? Meteor Attack on Buenos Aires. Edit source History Talk 0. Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki. Offhandedly commenting that "we tried to take over their planet and they retaliated" serves no purpose in their propaganda machine.
Too late they realized tha Tango Urilla had already been chosen by other colonists — Arachnids! The council asks future colonists to obey all official Federal warnings. Would you like to know more? Niko:No where did they say they tried to take over or invade the planet. Invasion or take over implies they knew the bugs were intelligent and rightfully held the planet before hand rather then a type of hostile fauna. Yet we know that information does not become certain until the very end of the movie.
The humans effectively stumbled on to the arachnids who proved to be an openly violent alien species. The higher caste with the intelligence never choose to communicate or even attempt to are assumed to be aggressive fauna of some sort.
And the phrase from the reporter is opened with here say not factual information. The phrase "Some Say" is not a statement of fact but opinions and here say. Opinions do not equal fact. There is also no proof that bugs were on the planet of initial conflict first or didn't come after the humans and then just attacked to take the world. It is never looked into or covered by the movie. There is the fact the federation does establish a quarantine zone and directs everyone to stay out of it even demonstrating that the bugs are hostile.
Given that they are aware a race of purpose made organic murder machines and consciously take the steps to curtail intrusion it is a huge stretch to suggest they humans knowingly landed there and started the war. A small group of humans ignores this and gets chopped to bits. But if we are going to judge an entire race by the actions of a small segment the bugs are unreasonably violent and aggressive. They don't start with any attempts at diplomacy or communication or even what would be defense they start out with naked offensive aggression.
The bugs have the ability to communicate and organize with their more intelligent caste yet they choose to make no effort to do so.
They even demonstrate the ability to control drones to a degree sufficient enough for the drones to capture or disable rather then just outright kill humans. The drones are not very intelligent but that is quite different from the "Brain bug" and as revealed in the sequels even higher tiers of intelligence for the bugs.
In fact said intelligent caste instead of choosing to try and tell the weird pink squishy animals with buildings and structures that the planet is theirs they choose to instead just wipe them out. That is not defensive that is offensive. The bugs kill the first strange beings of a new race who stumbled onto a world they had no way of knowing was actually occupied by another intelligent race if the bugs were actually there first to begin with.
Not only do the bugs choose to never communicate before the war or even attempt to do so they open all encounters with open aggression and deliberately kick off a war by launching a WMD style weapon at the humans home world.
None of their worlds are marked or other wise indicated as being bug worlds until they attack after the fact. They give no warnings, make no attempts at all to communicate on any level, or do anything that suggests they are anything but attack first aggressors.
The bugs are not defending themselves they are the aggressors. They deliberately kick off the war with a WMD attack preceded by a chain of brutal massacres. And they dont't any target that would actually suggest a defensive strike like say a settlement in the quarantine zone, a military expedition, or outpost, but a direct attack on Earth itself.
Klendathu doesn't get attacked and invaded until after the bugs attack earth first. It gets invaded and attacked after the bugs destroy a city and kill millions. It would be like walking through what looks like a public park only to have some psycho jump out of the bushes and shoot anyone without warning, who wanders into what looks like an empty public park.
No signs, no warnings, or any other indicators that it is private property and trespassers will be shot. The person doing the shooting isn't defending themselves they are the aggressor. The other person was trespassing yes but they had no way of knowing that they were and were given no warning to leave before they are killed. Same thing with the bugs.
They are not defensive they are offensive. The Federation decides the bugs are deliberately attacking them with little or no provocation and need to be dealt with. The only group in this showing restraint is the Federation. They don't start out trying to kill every bug on the planets they find them on. They instead try to quarantine the area they find them to avoid trouble.
No matter how you try to stretch this the bugs are not acting defensively but start off with open offense. They have the capability to do otherwise but choose not to. They go so far as to deliberately launch an attack that starts the war.
Comparing the book and film Yes, I do , I think the "contradictions" actually resolve themselves quite well. The book tells us the events from Rico's POV. The movie tells us the events from the media's POV. That's one reason why there's so many news blurbs showing up in the middle of the film, and why it can be debated as thoughtless or satirical.
Interesting view on the differences. But I think the differences in the first film and the book are bigger. We get Ricos POV in the movie as well as the media interludes. We also get Rico's view of the failed assault on Klendathu. The first movie also lacks the power armored troopers, the bugs humanoid allies the skinnies, and the technologically advanced bugs who wield energy weapons.
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