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Originally Posted by HarryT
I agree - it's a good movie, but not a movie of the book  . |
I'd disagree on the movie being good. Formulaic at best.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
As far as the politics goes, I was just noting that it's the reason that that the book was controversial when it was published, and remains so today. Some readers will strongly agree with its views, and others will strongly disagree, but few will be neutral. And great books should provoke discussion!
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Starship Troopers got me shipped off to see the principal after a disagreement with a high school Social Studies teacher after I quoted the city fathers of Carthage line and the suggestion for a jury trial on whether violence ever settled anything along with a quote from H. Beam Piper's
Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen about not being in effect until ratified on the battlefield.
Evidently free speech did not apply to those who disagreed with her. Or perhaps it was the comparison to Neville Chamberlain?