3 ms·
Didn't Verhoeven famously not read the book? Hard to call it "satire" then, "straw man" might be more accurate.
by BoingBoomTschak 1y ago
Didn't Verhoeven famously not read the book? Hard to call it "satire" then, "straw man" might be more accurate.
- justin66 1y agoPerhaps less famously, Edward Neumeier wrote his screenplay.
- johnnyfived 1y agoI hadn't heard that before but I agree with you, it doesn't qualify as satire if he didn't even bother to consume the source material. At least not in the literary sense.