Don't Sell 'Em Short

Andy Robertson · 13 Apr 2007, 11:03 · from 2007-April.txt.gz

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From: andywrobertson at clara.co.uk (Andy Robertson)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:03:53 +0100
Subject: (urth) Don't Sell 'Em Short
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Transentient writes: 

> I particularly liked the scene when Dina Meyer's character gets it.  
> It is not often you get a scene like that in a movie that is so  
> perfectly, masterfully overdone. 

I agree.  It's a remarkably good movie, and a skillful deconstruction of the 
book. 

However . . . 

I wonder if any one has recorded Wolfe's reaction to the original novel 
STARSHIP TROOPERS??? 

While I don't **like** it as a reading experience, I think Wolfe might have 
been sympathetic with its ideological thrust. 

The whole definition of 
civilians-as-those-who-risk-their-lives-to-defend-the-polis   is straight 
from classical Greek culture and is the foundation of Western civilisation. 

 - hartshorn 

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