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Quite, if you wanted to make a satire then start with a blank slate. Do not take a known work (of which the audience will have their pre-conceptions if they re
by rurounijones 13y ago
Quite, if you wanted to make a satire then start with a blank slate.
Do not take a known work (of which the audience will have their pre-conceptions if they read it) then eviscerate it for your own satirical needs then act surprised when said audience gets pissed off for the butchery.
- kbd 13y agoIsn't the point that it's satirizing its own source material?
- jlgreco 13y agoIn the broad sense, it is satirizing a sort of militaristic/jingoistic mentality. Specifically it does this by satirizing one particular manifestation of this mentality, its source material.
- rurounijones 13y agoThat is the problem though, it doesn't satirize the source material. It satirizes a strawman of the source material since it cuts out or alters almost every part of the book that does not support the movie's satirical objective. I think that is what pissed a lot of people off who read the book. If they wanted to satirize jingoistic mentality they could have done it without butchering the book by starting with a new IP (but then they couldn't have taken advantage of the "Starship Trooper" title.)
- lucian1900 13y agoI thought your comment was satire. I'm still not sure.