Screen Rant

  • Starship Troopers shower scene is about more than blatant nudity. 1 / 7

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  • Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven broke through to Hollywood with 1987's RoboCop. 2 / 7

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  • Starship Troopers from 1997 is a blockbuster about a war against a race of vicious alien bugs. 3 / 7

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  • While it underperformed it received four sequels, including 2017 anime Traitor Of Mars. 4 / 7

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  • The famous shower scene is quietly subversive. 5 / 7

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  • Unlike Verhoeven's other work like Basic Instinct, there's nothing overtly sexual about the nudity, which is shown as mundane instead. 6 / 7

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  • It also reveals hints about the fascist world, like needing to serve for politics or getting a license for have children. 7 / 7

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