Starship Troopers
Reading Adam Roberts’ Science Fiction (Routledge New Critical Idiom, Routledge 2000), I couldn’t help being infuriated by this (about Starship Troopers) :
“Altering the racial identity of the hero in Verhoeven’s 1997 film of the book went some way towards producing a more straightforwardly fascist text. This is not the point.”
Well, I don’t know what is the point, but it is absurd to go on pretending not to notice that Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers is a text about fascism (and more precisely the american brand of fascism) and not a fascist text. The same cannot be said of Heinlein’s book, although the protagonist is black. Recommended screening : the Starship Troopers dvd with audio commentary by Verhoeven.