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Having been underwhelmed by Basic Instinct and unconvinced by the "But Starship Troopers is actually a brilliant satire!" crowd, I'm not falling for that line again. I shall continue to live happily without sitting through Showgirls.
Fair enough, but you're missing out. And the satire in STARSHIP TROOPERS (one of the best films of the 90s!) isn't exactly subtle -- it's fairly in-your-face! Whether you like it or not, though, is of course another issue and entirely up to you.
STARSHIP TROOPERS is one of the most subversive big budget movies Hollywood ever made. When I saw it back when it came out, I was thrilled by what Verhoeven had done; it's possibly his best movie. And I agree, it is not a "subtle" satire, but it's in your face with quite a few "laugh out loud" moments.
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Knowing people involved, I can assure you no one thought they were making camp, subversive cinema, or any other terms you'd like to ascribe to this film. They thought they were making a hit movie, that's what they thought.
Oh, I'm sure they did. And they succeeded in making big budget pulp with lots of tits. It may not have been the box office hit they hoped for, but the movie sure isn't as bad as it was made out to be in its day.
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Knowing people involved, I can assure you no one thought they were making camp, subversive cinema, or any other terms you'd like to ascribe to this film. They thought they were making a hit movie, that's what they thought.
Are you kidding? If you know anything about Verhoeven and his filmography (I've seen all his films), you know that the over-the-top/camp factor was very much intended in SHOWGIRLS.
Here's Verhoeven talking about it:
"I always felt that it was what you might call a hyperbolic approach to filmmaking. Yes, it was over the top. And that was on purpose. The environments were very flashy. There were too many lights, too many idiotic things, and too much Vegas — not only in the surroundings, but "Vegas" in the way the people behaved, in the dialogue, in the acting. As for the finished product: I thought it was perfect. Otherwise I would have changed it. I had time to change it. I could change whatever was there.
Even now, when I see the movie, I think it's shot in an extremely elegant way. There are beautiful movements of the camera, and beautiful choreography of how the camera worked with the actors and how the actors moved. I think it's Felliniesque, certainly, in its over-the-top stuff. And I think that the whole thing, somehow, was completely rejected."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/showgirls-paul-verhoeven-on-the-greatest-stripper-movie-ever-made-20150922#ixzz3z6Ry1aMN
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