• autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Huh, I though I remember being told that the book played everything 100% straight and the film kinda riffed on that and only the film criticized toxic masculinity, but I might be mixing that up with another book-to-film adaption. (I know something like that was the case with Starship Troopers, so maybe my brain extended that to Fight Club too, but I swear it was said about both).

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      4 years ago

      I know something like that was the case with Starship Troopers

      Sounds about right - the movie parodies fascism but the book tends to incense it. Despite being a good writer, Heinlein was not a good person at all. You can also, for example, feel a deep misogyny in a lot of his books.