"“It’s a very rightwing book,” the director told Empire magazine. “And with the movie, we tried, and I think at least partially succeeded, in commenting on that at the same time. It would be ‘Eat your cake and have it.’ All the way through we were fighting with the fascism, the ultra-militarism. All the way through I wanted the audience to be asking, ‘Are these people crazy?’"
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Ben Child, “Nazis in space: how Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers brilliantly skewered fascism”, The Guardian, (12 Nov 2022)
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