The hungry fools who rule the world.
Nov. 16th, 2016 07:56 pmA pair of noteworthy things happened yesterday. One, somebody noticed my braid and said, "You have a tail." I responded, "Thank you for letting me know."
Two, I went to a special screening of Starship Troopers at Lincoln Center with an introduction by Paul Verhoeven and Casper Van Dien. Apparently, according to Van Dien, Karl Rove is a huge fan of the movie. Also, according to Verhoeven, the only reason it got made the way it did, as a $100 million subversive satirical war film, was because the movie company's executives kept getting fired every three to four months, so nobody paid any attention to what they were doing. This cumulated with someone finally looking at the dailies, asking if the flags weren't Nazi flags, and he responded by saying no, the ones in the movie were different colors.
He also likes being scared of his own movies - that is, he doesn't do sequels because he already knows how to tell that particular story. If he's making a movie, he wants to figure out how to tell a new story, and the learning process should scare him because he doesn't yet know how to tell the story he's working on.
I'd never seen it before, and I'm flat-out astounded nobody managed to get the double meaning the first time around since there's nothing within the text to support any straight, single-layer reading. It would've been nice to have some more distance from the themes, but it was still fairly cathartic in ways I don't quite know how to articulate.
Two, I went to a special screening of Starship Troopers at Lincoln Center with an introduction by Paul Verhoeven and Casper Van Dien. Apparently, according to Van Dien, Karl Rove is a huge fan of the movie. Also, according to Verhoeven, the only reason it got made the way it did, as a $100 million subversive satirical war film, was because the movie company's executives kept getting fired every three to four months, so nobody paid any attention to what they were doing. This cumulated with someone finally looking at the dailies, asking if the flags weren't Nazi flags, and he responded by saying no, the ones in the movie were different colors.
He also likes being scared of his own movies - that is, he doesn't do sequels because he already knows how to tell that particular story. If he's making a movie, he wants to figure out how to tell a new story, and the learning process should scare him because he doesn't yet know how to tell the story he's working on.
I'd never seen it before, and I'm flat-out astounded nobody managed to get the double meaning the first time around since there's nothing within the text to support any straight, single-layer reading. It would've been nice to have some more distance from the themes, but it was still fairly cathartic in ways I don't quite know how to articulate.
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