Book vs. Movie

[digitaldiscipline]

Just finished reading Starship Troopers [saw the movie first].

I'm glad I did it in this order, though I suspect that, much like the case with The Princess Bride, the fact that the book is so much more detailed in some respects lets you retroactively appreciate the movie more, as opposed to Tolkien purists being annoyed by the LotR movies' adaptation. . . a Heinlein purist might be unwilling or unable to give the movie the benefit of the doubt and go in "innocent."

That said, delicarose, I think you -would- appreciate the movie - it's far from faithful to the book, but, having now read it, there's a lot more meat on the animated caricature that I had previously slotted it as.

Any of you who have not yet read TPB. do yourselves a favor and get the 25th or 30th anniversary edition and sit down with it. Read the preface. Read the foreward. Read everything but the frigging publication page, because the backstory on the making of the movie is almost as entertaining as the story itself, and the original Morgenstern text is a fucking -riot-. You'll still love the movie afterwards. I promise.

Comments

[argylerockstar.livejournal.com]

Heh. You know, a lot of people really do believe that it isn't the original text.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

i wish the parenthetical asides had gone on more. . . those were my favorite bits.

[argylerockstar.livejournal.com]

I think that my favorite part is when he spends a few pages discussing what the original text said about her packing for her trip and unpacking on the same trip. He spends pages on it, but assures us that we are much better off because the original text had, like, 20 pages on it.