Like of course these are gendered roles Carol and Yon-Rogg are playing here but they're not *only* gendered It's not just patriarchy, it's *paternalism* It's how men treat women, but also how elders treat juniors, parents treat children, the elite treat the poor
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No, I don't think so, and I think this is a very lazy reading Without defending DoD partnerships with Disney movies as a whole, you have to work really hard to find anything actually pro-Air Force in this movie Like, at all
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I don't think the Air Force actually cares that the message of the movie is ultimately anti-military, but that's because they don't actually generally care ] They're not movie critics The Navy got all excited about Battleship and it was obvious that movie was a laughingstock
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I mean the sad truth is that a movie can be anti military thematically but unless someone looks at the camera and says “the Air Force does war crimes, don’t join up” all those cool shots of planes and pilots hopping out against a sunset still do their job.
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I am fine with saying that what a movie's plot and dialogue and themes say is often very different from what a movie's moment-to-moment imagery says, and that since cinema is a visual medium the latter is often more important But that doesn't negate the former
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Okay, so that's just Truffaut's Maxim -- you can't ever really make an antiwar movie because war looks inherently cool There are people who unironically stan the Mobile Infantry in Verhoeven's Starship Troopers and wish they could join it, the satire is totally lost on them
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Wait wait wait, that's the one they think is cool? Not the thermonuclear iron men with more firepower than god from the book? Fucking chuds the lot of them
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That's not what they're talking about, they're talking about how the Mobile Infantry in the novel Starship Troopers are this display of cutting-edge high-tech combat gear and in the film (because it's a satire) they're just running around with rifles and T-shirts
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