• farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    3 个月前

    The author that wrote the book is genuinely a fascist and was pissed at the tone of the movie.

    edit: I was way off on this the author died before the movie came out

        • dickalan@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 个月前

          yeah. but how did you get to the point of calling the author fascist. that has to come from somewhere

          • John_Greene@lemy.nlNederlands
            1·
            3 个月前

            Paul Verhoeven called him a fascist when he chucked his stupid book into the trashbin and decided to make his adaptation a complete shitpost to make fun of him

        • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 个月前

          It’s very telling about the state of the internet that I’m genuinely happy about someone being honest about having been proven wrong.

          I love it and aspire to be like that when that happens too.

          • farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works
            0·
            3 个月前

            haha yeah someone else asked for a source so i started searching and as soon as i found out i was wrong I updated the comment. some people have too much ego about finding out they are wrong about something

    • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 个月前

      Dude invented powered armor 4 years before Iron Man ever showed up, and it didn’t even make it into the movie. He should be pissed

      • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        3 个月前

        Reading several of his books, he believes in the everyday capable man of doing things and has a libertarian bent to him. That’s from reading a lot of his work and finding similarities in it. I wouldn’t say he was fascist but at that time he was probably vogue for the politics at the time.

        • atomicorange@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 个月前

          I think he just liked playing around with political ideas. His books don’t have much of an ideological through-line (is “women are hot” an ideology?).