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thecountofs · 2 years

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Starship Troopers

#starship troopers #military scifi #terran federation #the arachnids starship troopers #mobile infantry #cap trooper #power armor #scorpion bug #on the bounce #johnny rico #carmen diaz #would you like to know more?#starship troopers art #do you wanna live forever?#steel gorilla

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rvengefulobster · 2 months

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Twitter has been re-litigating Starship Troopers recently so one of my mutuals requested a poster based on the WWII "This man is your FRIEND" series.

#starship troopers #wwii poster #this man is your friend #the bugs #the bugs were in the right #paul verhoeven #robert heinlein #arachnids

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whirligig-girl · 10 months

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Commission for Dragon Cobolt of an Arachnid (Starship Troopers) and an Ur-Quan (Star Control) serving aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.

#Star Trek #Star Trek TOS #TOS #Star Trek crossover #Star Trek Fanart #Fanart #Commission #Arachnid #Starship Troopers #Ur-Quan #Star Control #Star Control 2 #USS Enterprise #Starship #Enterprise #SNW #tagging because SNW's gorn sucks so bad that someone paid me money to make anti-xenophobia protest art

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 1 year

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#Starship Troopers #art #artwork #decapitated #decapitation #painting #movies #science fiction #arachnids #post apocalyptic #futurism #90's #90s #1997

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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"5,000 YEARS IN THE FUTURE, HUMANITY FACES TOTAL EXTERMINATION..."

NOTE: So, I'm a huge fan of this specific cover art, and I recall it taking me way too @$!#*&% long to track down, like, almost impossibly hard. Anyway, I just think it's an awesome redesign, and still the one of the best (if not THE best) out there.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on redesigned cover art to the ACE paperback edition of Robert A. Heinlein's "controversial classic of military adventure," 1959's "Starship Troopers," republished in July 2006. Cover art redesign by Will Staehle.

SYNOPSIS: "...Our one defence: highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy: an insect life-form known only as "Bugs." This is the story of trooper Johnny Rico, from his idealistic enlistment in the infantry of the future through his rigorous training to the command of his own platoon. And his destiny is a war that will span the galaxy.”

-- PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE (publisher)

Source: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/298329/starship-troopers-by-robert-a-heinlein.

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mrblonde72488 · 1 year

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#starship troopers #paul verhoeven #robert a. heinlein #state troopers #apeshit #arachnids #film #cinemetography #gifset #concept art

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gsirvitor · 1 month

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I'm an Ancap now boys and girls, and these people have no idea what an Ancap is, let alone a Liberal or Libertarian... I mean, some get close, but.

All of this because I said Starship Troopers wasn't good satire, doesn't portray the Arachnids as sympathetic victims, and the Federation isn't Fascist.

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vintagegeekculture · 10 months

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In the 1920s, we thought giant insects would destroy mankind

In the 1920s, there was a decade-long trend of stories where a destroyed earth is ruled over by insects that have grown to colossal size. Giant Insects were believed to be the most likely cause of the end of the world all through that decade.

Hugo Gernsback especially was a big believer in giant bugs ending the human race, and as many pulp historians have pointed out, most of the published giant bug stories were in April and May, just around the time to appeal to fears of spring and allergy season.

This trend was inspired by "Red Dust," a hugely popular story from 1920 by Murray Leinster. This story got a lot of imitators, and it seemed that every single end of the world story in that decade involved a world ruled by giant bugs. In fairness, this isn't completely from left field. The science behind this is that oxygen levels in the atmosphere change over time in earth's history, and the more oxygen in the atmosphere, the bigger the bugs get.

Another cause of this might have been a 1908 article in the Strand that imagined what would happen if Giant Insects invaded London.

The "giant insects end the world" story was a cliché by the end of the decade, and letters pages in Astounding grew cranky whenever a story was done with that theme. By the 1940s, you could only get away with doing a story with this theme if you put a wrinkle in it, like in 1935's the Insect World, where thousands of years in the future, alien bugs arrive on earth to find it without humans, only to discover that mankind invented a race of termite-ants to do all our work, only to be destroyed by them when we lapsed into apathy.

Heinlein of course, wrote Starship Troopers in 1959, where his pseudo-arachnid bug race had weapons and technology, but the idea of giant bugs warring against mankind was already well-trod ground by the time the Old Man got to them.

#pulp scifi #pulp history #1920s

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the-hawkeyes · 2 months

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I wanna talk about Starship Troopers, most notably this scene that starts right about here, with this bit:

At this point in the movie, we're 1:14 min in. We've seen a failed invasion of the Arachnids home planet, witnessed a massacre of humans as they fail. We've seen a massive attack on Earth. We've seen the training and various bits of propaganda throughout the movie about the Arachnids, framing them as the Enemy.

So the strategy changes. Lets go attack the Arachnids other planets! And so they do. This is after a napalm strike, where our main cast is now going in and doing cleanup. At the time I took this screen, that Arachnid has been shot up, and is screaming in pain.

It was this frame here that I finally realized what was going on.

"Oh my god these creatures are actually very intelligent and this one is begging for its life". And what happens? Gunned down. And then what happens not even ten seconds after that?

A group comes out of a hole, which I can only presume is them making threats to stay away and not blow up their home. To which our main character fires a little nuke right into the hole, making their threats useless.

One thing that I started to notice during this whole first sequence on Planet P is that the noises the Arachnids make are mixed to be the same level as all of our human characters dialogue. They make it super obvious too. Its louder than other sounds when it happens. The filmmakers want you to know that they are speaking a language.

I knew this movie was satire before hand, so I was at least able to see it through that lens before I started. This section here, I think, lays it out in no uncertain terms that the Arachnids are not just some mindless bugs like the people of Earth have been told.

Actually, judging by the choice of making Planet P look like this, and seeing the outpost a little later on, I wouldn't be surprised if this planet is supposed to represent the Middle East as a region, or perhaps Afghanistan.

It's chilling, really, to make these connections, especially with the situation about Palestine going on now. How science fiction can highlight the issues of today by giving us these analogues to think about our current political climate.

I love this movie for what it says and how it says it. I'm definitely going to be talking about it more

#starship troopers #cw: guns #cw: gore

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sunlightedcockroach · 25 days

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Arachnid

I read, or rather listened to the audio version of the novel "Starship Troopers" by R. Heinlein a long time ago, and I remember not the controversial political aspect, but the space suits of paratroopers and the civilization of beetles.Although the latter did not seem to be described in detail, I had a strange feeling about them.

It seemed to me that given their technology in the most familiar, "metallic" sense, the presence of scientists in their society and so on made them hauntingly close to humans, yet at the same time they remained alien.

I tried to convey this feeling through the resemblance to a toddler and the some hair-like tentacles (cheeks unfold into mandibles).

#creature design #starship troopers #robert a. heinlein #monster #horror #art #procreate #scifiart #scifi #creature #bodi horror #my art

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jakey-beefed-it · 8 months

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Some progress on the neurolictor. Gonna layer the moderately softer bits with karak stone and pallid wych flesh, darken down the carapace with a black wash or two, and paint the joints and brain to go for an ugly, raw looking reddish pink fleshy look. Urban rubble for the base, Ultramarines helmet trophy of course.

Thinking of doing some red or yellowy markings along the carapace, inspired by the arachnids from the starship troopers movie.

There will be lots of selective gloss varnish at the end to make the chitin shiny as well as the mouthparts look wet and gross.

#jake plays warhammer 40k

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victusinveritas · 2 years

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Most of the arachnids appearing on film are CGI but a few life-sized, robotic models were built. However, during the battle scenes, the actors wound up looking at director Paul Verhoeven himself who would stand in front of them and jump and scream at them even chasing them with a broom to elicit their reactions attempting to generate some of the fearsomeness of a 12-foot space ant Clancy Brown affectionately described the director as "a nutbag", given to "jumping up and down with a bullhorn going, 'I'm a big fucking bug! I'll kill you!' I loved him; he was so much fun." --Taken from the IMDB trivia page for Starship Troopers, which is a treasure trove of things you always wanted to know about your favorite space war satire but were afraid to ask. Incidentally, Jake Busey learned to play the violin for his character’s scenes.

#starship troopers #movies #sci fi #paul verhoeven #jake busey #casper van dien #dina meyer #denise richards #michael ironside #clancy brown

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minanno · 1 month

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Starship Troopers - got the point, still didn't like it much.

Starship Troopers (1997) acts as a mirror to Heinlein. Showing him how quasi-ridiculous his views within the novel, Starship Troopers, were.

REVIEW

Considering that Heinlein was upset at Eisenhower's suspension of the US nuclear tests, only for the soviets to have their nuclear tests right after, probably added to his desire for a greater emphasis on militarism within the United States (that is very evident within the novel.)

After reading the book and then watching the movie, I think this movie actually pulled its punches. Heinlein is a great writer and makes his political views clear through the character of Johnny. The themes about force, war, military control in achieving a "utopia" also carry over from the book into the film, but that's all it is.

Sure a satire need not make remedies for the issues on the product it's parodying, but I think more could've been done. The topic of facism within this movie is one that is purely aesthetical. It's not tackled as a historic fact, rather it appears as spectacle whereby the audience can recognize and say "oh look, their uniforms look make them look like n*zis" and ends the conversation at that.

Jean-Francis Lyotard argued that cinema has co-opted the historical lens, drawing on stories with heavy political struggles but leaving those struggles at the door in favor of postmodernist film spectacle, and that rings heavy with this movie.

CASTING

Verhoeven puts his casting choice up to the point that it's supposed to be ironic. He explains that he chose these actors to "fit a proto-fascistic mould....by choosing appearance over acting ability." He nailed that part, which just adds more to this movie being a satirical spectacle and not much else.

SCENES

The scene with the Mormons. Let's talk about it. The idea, I think, was to show the encroachment of the arachnids land by the Mormons. Subverting the narrative that the arachnids are the initiators of the war. It's a short sequence, but that message does not penetrate clearly because it's juxtaposed by the mutilated remains of the Mormons.

This scene is only made "slightly" better when it's showed on FedNet. Kind of using it as a means of indoctrinating and satisfactorily plays into Verhoeven's irony and subversion

3/5 stars.

#film #movies #movie review #movie recc #books & libraries #movie recommendation #movie reference #movie reaction #starship troopers #paul verhoeven

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fictionkinfessions · 4 months

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Weirdly common "patterns" in my lives: being in some form of like. Military. 4 of them, probably 5 actually-

3 of them having a range of ehhh not super great experiences lmao.

Starship Troopers: Oops only survivor of my squad on a planet drop bc of the damn arachnids? Check. Get rotated back to Earth bc that and got stuck training the FNGs that are just meat for the grinder that is the mobile infantry,,, :)))

Star Wars: Flametrooper in the First Order. Enough said for why that wasn't great lol

MCU: I was a fuckin HYDRA Asset. Case closed. Horrible. 0/10 dont recommend. I still want my wings again, though. Hey universe, let me fly challenge-

The other 2 were better and like, for one of them - Who wouldn't want a dragon as their BFF even if said dragon was a jerk (lovingly) sometimes lol (Dragonfable)

And yet. Here I am. Seriously, considering the military. Again. Oh, well.

- DDC ☢️

(Tags; Marvel, MCU, starship troopers, star wars, dragonfable, noncanon)

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#fictionkinfessions #fictionkin #ddckin #kinmonalities #wars cw #death cw #prevabuse #marvelkin #starshiptrooperskin #starwarskin #dragonfablekin #aukin #mod party cat

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badschmitt24071994 · 5 months

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Starship Troopers 1997 brain sucked out

Starship Troopers is a 1997 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier, based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein. Set in the 23rd century, the story follows teenager Johnny Rico and his friends serving in the military of the United Citizen Federation, an Earth world government engaged in interstellar war with an alien species of Arachnids

#starship troopers #90s #old movies #video #gore lover #gore #trash movies #classic movies #syfy #death

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nirahsaooc · 11 months

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As time goes on I do appreciate the original 1997 Starship Troopers movie more, it has a lot of nice details you don’t always see in similar movies because hollywood forgets the military would have certain kinds of equipment. And what is lacking you can chalk up to the supreme arrogance the human leaders had when it came to fighting the Arachnids.

Like one detail I do rather like is the initial Klendathu Drop, is that as soon as the Dropships touch down you see them start to fire their guns into the air, no doubt trying to shoot down bug plasma. While at the same time trying to help secure the area.

I also love how the initial encounter with one arachnid warrior has it killing one guy before it goes down. But it can give you that impression of “Well it was big so one loss against it isn’t bad at all.”

Then you hear one soldier shout “Here they come.” And you get to see just HOW many bugs the Arachnids are fielding in their first retaliatory attack. And you instantly realize if you trade 1 to 1 with them you are going to lose....badly.

The original movie is interesting with how it departs from the book and depicts the Terran Federation as the bad guys with how they ignored the Bugs Territory seeing them as just ‘stupid insects’ and basically provoked them into launching attacks thereby continuing to justify the need to exterminate the Arachnid Race.

Was amusing as in the original book Federation Propaganda does try to depict the Bugs as just mindless animals needing to be put down. But its one of those thinly veiled bits that any soldier in the field knew was completely wrong. As it was put in the book, “Stupid races don’t build spaceships.” Like it probably fooled those back on Earth and other colonies that hadn’t encountered the Bugs but was ineffective beyond that.

#Random Musings #Starship Troopers

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