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Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante  I dont see why people see the movie as satire.
I saw it almost a decade before i read the book and even knew who RAH was.
To me it looked like a very stupid and bad movie. No parody at all. Thats even more clear when i read the book.
They took the simple, sexier things about the book and like the flogging,the military stuff,the bugs and made an empty movie out of it.
I see why some people like space military thing but not why some see it as a satire. Like hollywood ever cares about a book that much to make a satire..... |
I thought the parody of jingoism was blatantly obious to be honest. Im not sure how you missed it.
It sounds like you have mis-interpreted what people mean by 'satire' - the film isnt a satire of Robert Heinlein's book - it is a general political satire, not unlike 'Dr Strangelove'.
It is a witty dystopian commentary on extremist 'us vs them' tribal behavior, complete with the standard mass hysteria threat to our 'way of life' (bugs = communists, niggers, jews, terrorists, witches, etc).
They nailed everything, right down to the 'infotainment' broadcasts, with their ludacris one-sided parody of modern 'political commentators'.
Im not sure what your political beliefs are, if any, but perhaps the reason you see no satire in the film is because those beliefs are what are being subject to parody?
Take this example - at one point in the film, schoolchildren are encouraged in cheesy 'Triumph of the Will'/'Birth of the Nation' style propaganda, to collect bugs and stomp on them - these bugs dont even have anything to do with the alien threat, they are an Earth species - this is a satire of mindless victimisation of minorities being encouraged during wartime - i.e. American concentration camps for Japanese Americans who had nothing to do with their war, portrayal of Japanese people as subhumans in comics of the period, etc.