Director
Paul Verhoeven
Composer
Basil Poledouris
Cast
Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Neil Patrick Harris
Edition 2024
129'
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1997
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Action, Adventure
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In a totalitarian future America, young model citizens are being groomed for life-and-death battles with insect monsters. For Paul Verhoeven, it's the perfect excuse to lash out at the patriotic and warmongering excesses of his new homeland. A violent, self-aware political satire, Starship Troopers was entirely misunderstood back in the day.
Based on a dubious science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers is a briliantly filmed war spectacle for jaded adolescents, and at the same time a radical critique of it. You could say that this is Paul Verhoeven's first subversive super-production from Hollywood to his credit. In a crypto-fascist state where everyone looks blissfully happy, the youth (boys and girls with the plastic look of the well-endowed dolls from Melrose Place and Beverly Hills, 90210) are prepared to fight the disgusting enemy: giant insects that threaten the survival of the planet. This culminates in unimaginable carnage, an orgy of destruction and mutilation with no end in sight, and in which Uncle Sam's patriotism and jingoism is raised to grotesque heights.
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Credits
Directors
Paul Verhoeven
Composers
Basil Poledouris
Cast
Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Neil Patrick Harris
Scenario
Edward Neumeier
Director of Photography
Jost Vacano
Editors
Mark Goldblatt, Caroline Ross
Producers
Jon Davison, Alan Marshall
Production studios
TriStar Pictures, Touchstone Pictures
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Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Screenplay based on
"Starship Troopers" (Robert A. Heinlein)
Year
1997
Filmography
Paul Verhoeven
Wat zie ik (1971), Turks Fruit (1973), Keetje Tippel (1975), Soldaat van oranje (1977), Spetters (1980), De vierde man (1983), Flesh+Blood (1985), RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990), basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995), Starship Troopers (1997), Hollow Man (2000), Zwartboek (2006), Steekspel (2012), Elle (2016), Benedetta (2021)
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