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Originally Posted by alansplace
Has anyone read Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (first published in November 1959) and also seen Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film, Starship Troopers? The film is almost totally unrecognizable as the same story as the book. I'd read the novel in 1960 and liked it a lot. Then I saw the film in 1997. I had read reports during the making of the film concerning the decisions that were made so the filmmakers would be able to stay within the film's budget and with what they had left after adhering to the budget constraints be able to make a visual film from material that did not lend itself at all well to visual expression. Very soon after the film began I'd seen enough evidence to verify the reports that I'd read. So I cleared my mind of the novel (as best I could) and tried to watch the film as an entirely new entity. I guess it worked. Bottom line. I liked the novel and I liked the movie.
The above applies very well to the Dresden Files TV show. Wolf's problems were pretty much the same as Verhoeven's.
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Starship Troopers is one of my all time favorite novels. It's one that I reread every year at leat once.
I saw the movie before I'd read the book, and I hated it. It was because of that experience that I refused to read what I thought was drivel.
I wish wish wish that I would have read the novel years earlier, and had never seen the movie.
I'm not one of those fortunate souls that are able to clear my mind of the book before watching the movies. Sometimes, as with LotR, and The Hunger Games, one is pleasantly surprised. Other times, as with Congo and Sahara it feels like a bout of food poisoning in my brain!