This is sad that we’re at this point in history when we have to have the obvious confirmed due to a lack of intelligence in the majority of a first world country.
Inb4 someone swoops in with ‘but Hugo Boss’: Boss didn’t design shit as he wasn’t a designer, and his company wasn’t in fashion design until years after his death. The SS uniform was designed by two dudes in the SS.
What is it with fascists and uniforms? Especially uniforms like this?
Fascism frequently plays on projection of strength and conformity - uniform is all window dressing to that end. “We look sharp, we look in charge.”
It’s a sign that you have many others under your control.
I actually thought that the uniform mockups were AI to make fun of the whole “Department of War” thing. I can’t believe they either completely misunderstood Starship Troopers or (more likely) want to openly pursue a fascist aesthetic.
I can’t believe they either completely misunderstood Starship Troopers
To be fair…
So did Peter Verhoeven.
He ended up in the same place, but he thinks he inserted sarcasm into the story when he just couldn’t see it in what he had removed.
Like, there was an entire third race in the books, a middle ground between bugs and humans, and the novel starts with a soldier massacring a village of civilians while his only concern was making sure he used all his explosive before returning because they got yelled at if they didn’t.
Right from the very first page it’s undeniable that Earth is not the good guys in Heinlens’s version. Then it goes to where the movie starts.
Heinlen just 100% stuck to his characters point of view. They didn’t think any of it was evil, so the book doesn’t. Idiots think that means Heinlen didn’t have an issue with it.
The book was always a warning written with fellow military officers in mind as the audience.
I never knew this, but just from watching the movie alone I even thought it was pretty obvious the humans were the bad guys.
I enjoyed the book so much and I knew that the author had feelings about this. It wasn’t pro war. It was a response to the dropping of the Atomic bomb. It’s satire but an idiot can’t pick up on it. I loved Zim’s character in the book.
It’s darkly hilarious that nobody involved in that decision appears to have realized that Starship Troopers is, in fact, satire.
The movie is, the novel isn’t.
I’m aware - but there aren’t any illustrations of uniforms in the novel, so they certainly riffed off the movie.
But he forgot to reiterate that the Earth is a globe! Back to square one…
