what Palahniuk intended to do with the novel has any necessary relationship to what the director and producers intended to do with the movie.
From what I've read of Palahniuk's opinion of the movie - mostly in magazine puff pieces some time ago, so I can't easily get hold of a citation - he thought the movie worked better than he had managed to make the book work.
Starship Troopers. Which also, now that I come to think of it, has something of the same problem for me (along a different axis), where I have a little difficulty telling exactly where the satire is supposed to kick in.
I've not seen the film of that, by choice, it was just too offputting. [ Other than the notion that if an invasion by giant bugs from outer space was a risk, daytime TV and soap opera stars would make a good expendable front line; I can find that sympathetic. ] I'm not sure I parsed anything in the book as being very satirically minded, save maybe the truly key features of that society that Johnny Rico just does not get because he's so keen to go be a soldier; as for example, just how many other options are listed in the bit where he's looking into qualifying to vote, which make it clear that there's much more in the wider universe there than militarism alone.
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From what I've read of Palahniuk's opinion of the movie - mostly in magazine puff pieces some time ago, so I can't easily get hold of a citation - he thought the movie worked better than he had managed to make the book work.
Starship Troopers. Which also, now that I come to think of it, has something of the same problem for me (along a different axis), where I have a little difficulty telling exactly where the satire is supposed to kick in.
I've not seen the film of that, by choice, it was just too offputting. [ Other than the notion that if an invasion by giant bugs from outer space was a risk, daytime TV and soap opera stars would make a good expendable front line; I can find that sympathetic. ] I'm not sure I parsed anything in the book as being very satirically minded, save maybe the truly key features of that society that Johnny Rico just does not get because he's so keen to go be a soldier; as for example, just how many other options are listed in the bit where he's looking into qualifying to vote, which make it clear that there's much more in the wider universe there than militarism alone.