(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.
The book was a book about duty and becoming a man, growing up.
The movies, according to the director himself, were intended as a political platform and had no intention of being faithful to the book past sticking their collective dicks into Heinlein's work and calling that "art".
