(June 22, 2011 at 2:41 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: As I watched the first movie (the only one I saw), I wondered about how faithful the movie was to the book. I remember how Heinlein was outspoken about "women and children first" being the prime directive of every culture, all else being quickly dumped in a time of emergency. He was critical of "idealists" and said any culture that doesn't protect the women and children is playing with extinction. When I watched the movie and saw women being in the military and being placed on the front lines I couldn't help but think that there's no way that was in the book.
Someone I know was telling me the differences, and actually the women being in the military and the front lines were the one of the few things they got right.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
