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After hanging with two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon to praise the camp classic Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, we got a bit more abstract with the ethereal noir-ish antics of Jennifer Reeder’s Knives and Skin. This week, we’re delving into Paul Verhoeven‘s not-so-secret satire Starship Troopers in celebration of its 25th anniversary!
Set in the 23rd century, the film follows the exploits of “teenager” Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) and his friends while serving in the military under the Earth world government, the United Citizen Federation (aka a fascist regime). Humanity’s exploration and colonization of outer space brings them into conflict with an alien species, known as Arachnids, leading to an interstellar war.
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Episode 203: Starship Troopers (1997)
Grab your bug spray because we’re heading to the alien bug planets of Klendathu and Planet P to satirize the fascists in Paul Verhoeven’s adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s controversial novel Starship Troopers!
Join us as we go over the film’s lengthy (lengthy) production history before diving into the film’s political commentary that 1997 critics and audiences just didn’t seem to detect. Is it subtext? Or is it text? We aim to find out!
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Coming up on Wednesday: We’re covering our first anime film in 1997’s doppelgänger-y classic Perfect Blue!
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