I’m quite familiar with the Starship Troopers franchise, but it’s been described as a parody of Heinlen’s work rather than being true to it.
What were his philosophies, and were they actually so fascist and controversial that all the movies based on his work had to be made into parodies?
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For me, the biggest difference between the book and the movie was the scene where a recruit asks why the state needs a mobile infantry when they could just push a button and launch a nuke.
– In the movie, the drill instructor pins the recruit’s hand to the desk with a knife and says something like “you can’t push the button now.”
– In the book, Heinlein goes into a political discussion about the need and uses for limited warfare and police actions by the state. There is a line, iirc, about “you don’t spank a baby with a hand grenade.”
The movie continues in this vein, taking all the political points Heinlein tries to make and turning them into puerile trash.
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