I highly recommend checking out the commentary track on the DVD where Verhoeven gets so riled up at the cast misstating the movie's themes that he berates them at speaker-destroying volume.
Exactly, Verhoeven completely misunderstood the source material. He even misunderstands the world of his own movie. A lack of universal suffrage does not equal fascism. Granted it's a militaristic society, but it functions the same as a Roman Republicanism, not remotely fascist.
Ahahahaa. From what I understand he didn't even read the book all the way through. Just skimmed it, said "This is fascist trash" and threw it aside. Which means he was smarter than I am, I loved that book when I was a kid. : )
I highly recommend checking out the commentary track on the DVD where Verhoeven gets so riled up at the cast misstating the movie's themes that he berates them at speaker-destroying volume.
Oh I have to check this out lol
The cast really were as stupid as they looked then
oh hey I wonder where this hyperlink goes
even in the comments on the commentary lmao
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Ahahahaa. From what I understand he didn't even read the book all the way through. Just skimmed it, said "This is fascist trash" and threw it aside. Which means he was smarter than I am, I loved that book when I was a kid. : )
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Casper Van Dien loved his character and reprised it a number of times in sequels. Verhoeven really nailed that one!