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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 4470375" data-attributes="member: 1164"><a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdaptationDecay" target="_blank">Adaptation Decay - Television Tropes & Idioms</a>The film version of Robert A Heinlein's Starship Troopers completely removed the philosophical questions of the book while transforming the all-male power-armored Mobile Infantry who go to extreme lengths to recover their own wounded and dead into a co-ed showering Redshirt Army who see nothing wrong with ''killing'' their own wounded. Director Paul Verhoeven subverted the entire book, seemingly in order to satirize what he (and a great many other readers) felt to be Heinlein's fascistic tendencies. Whether adaptations that parody their source material really count as Adaptation Decay is a question for another day.    * Verhoeven admits that he never got more than a few chapters into the book, which raises the question of whether lazy adaptation can count as parody.          o The reason Verhoeven never bothered to read much of the book is that the film wasn't actually intended to be an adaptation or parody of Starship Troopers itself, but instead a satire of that kind of gung-ho militarist Sci-Fi. The studio optioned the rights to Starship Troopers and made Verhoeven change character names.     * The main enemy, the "Arachnids", was, in the book, a highly technical race. In the movie, they are just bugs who breed into missile throwing mutants. It's never quite explained how they manage to be a real threat to humanity, how a planet based species manages to send asteroids across light years to hit Earth without technology is never explained. It's perhaps worth noting here that it's implied in the movie, however, that the bugs are merely scapegoats and it's in fact the humans who are the evil invading aliens. </blockquote>

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