Both the 2004 "Starship Team 2: Federation Heroes" and the 2008 "Starship Team 3: Predators" were released directly on DVD after the filming, and the production level was completely below B-level.
This year's "Starship: Invasion" is not the first animation in the Galaxy series. What is less known is that the series is actually the first animated version and then the live-action version. As early as 1988, the Japanese company Bandai put "Starship Paratroopers" on the screen in the form of a 6-volume OVA; then the second animated version was produced by Columbia, which premiered in 1999, "Tough Guys: Starship Troopers". "Note", the length of the length is 40 episodes, but for various reasons, only 36 episodes were actually shot.
"Starship Paratrooper" has been 53 years since its publication in 1959. This novel won the Hugo Award in 1960. Four years later, another novel "Robot Dreams of Electronic Sheep" was only nominated, but according to its adaptation of the film "Blade Runner", both in terms of influence and wind. However, they are far from the "Starship Team", which makes people sigh. If Ridley Scott picked up the Galaxy guide tube, what would it look like now?
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary, "Invasion" brought Johnnie, Carmen and Carl together again. This is the interesting part of the movie. Johnnie became a general, Carmen was still single, and Carl did not die in battle. It made us guess the exact Continuation. "Invasion" begins with a monologue by the unnamed deputy platoon leader in the original novel "Starship Paratroopers", except that there is an additional sentence in the original "Fact is the fact: I am terribly scared every time." Different from the series of movies, there are very few war scenes in the original book. There is only one action and two battles throughout the whole story. Except for the royal battle of the last P star, the previous two games were taken in one stroke, with very little ink. The author Heinlein describes the study and life of the protagonist Johnnie in most of the pages. At the same time, he uses his own views on politics, military and society at the time to teach Dubois (school) and Reid (military school) through the "History and Moral Philosophy" course. ) Waiting for the exposition of retired veterans to be presented to the readers. It is worth mentioning that the author himself is a student of the U.S. Naval Academy. After graduating in 1929, he served on the aircraft carrier USS Washington. In 1934, he retired due to tuberculosis. When he retired, he held the rank of lieutenant. During the Second World War, he worked on marine machinery for the Navy and actively participated in political activities. These backgrounds have become the cornerstone of his future writing of hard science fiction. Science fiction is especially hard science fiction. In addition to the unconstrained brushstrokes, it is even more attractive that these fantasy often inadvertently shine into reality, such as submarines, rockets, satellites, etc. As for Heinlein, just like he has become a real waterbed, maybe one day mobile suits will really become standard equipment for infantry. The mobile suit in "Invasion" continues the settings in "Starship Trooper 3: Predators", and does not use the design of Heinlein and Izububu Yu. I personally think this is a wise choice. The sketch of STUDIO NUE looks at first glance. It looks like a trumpet Gundam, and it doesn't shine.
The social setting of Galaxy has always been quite controversial. Heinlein described a future society in the form of a centralized federation. Citizens must serve to obtain the right to vote. Many people denounced Heinlein as a Nazi. In the movie, Paul Verhoeven simplifies this complex system into a military power society, and then in the guide review of "Tough Guys: The Chronicles of Galaxy Squadron" under his guidance, he defended Heinlein by saying, Satire is misunderstood as praise". However, we can find from Heinlein’s organization of the "Patrick Henry" alliance, etc., that he was indeed politically right at the time. This may be due to the influence of his second wife Virginia Gerstenfeld, but it is also an extreme right. Excessively. This work is the author's transformation from juvenile science fiction to adult science fiction, and may also be a punctuation of the author's psychological transformation. A close reading of "Starship Paratroopers" reveals that although Heinlein portrays such a society, the protagonist Johnnie did not join the army because of citizenship, and since then he has never made citizenship as a goal, let alone exercised it. After all, this social setting is just a blurred background. Heinlein is a doer, he hates Hegelism. The article quoted a paragraph from John Paul Jones' letter to the Naval Committee in 1775, "We are defending democracy, but the warship itself must implement absolute dictatorship." I agree. This may be what the author wanted to express at the time. The tree of freedom breathed not ideal empty talk, but was watered by the blood of patriots and tyrants. In Heinlein's last feature-length work "Stern Moon", the society presents anarchy. Such extreme changes are very interesting.
Except for the first part of the Galaxy series, which is based on the original work, it has a grand background and a continuous plot. The next three scenes are very narrow, such as the second part of the sentry and the third part of the plundering plan. The second part of the series is almost the black box recovered from the trap base of the first part, and the plot is an alien version of "The Thing". The third part is a continuation of the first part of the story, although only Johnnie and the clever bugs captured at the end of the first part appeared. But the setting of deliberately arrested clever bugs indirectly opened up the fourth story. "Invasion" also chose a small point: a rescue operation. In the emotional tone, the heavy tragic color of the original is maintained. It seems that everyone cannot escape this unreasonable war. Every character involved in the torrent bears an inescapable fate. In the film, apart from the two teams A-1 and K-12, which suffered most of the damage, there are only Johnnie, Carmen and Carl. None of these three orthodox characters are even the protagonist. This perspective seems to be destined to be similar to the film. It's like a rumored nature. Nobuchi Aramaki has an American style in the rhythm of the film, and is clean and tidy. All the minutiae are removed, and there is no too much procrastination.
The focus of the whole story is very focused, and it is difficult to see the progress of the entire war. The emergence of the original "Refuge" in "Starship Troopers 3: Predators" and the surface of Cangyi in "Galaxy Troopers 4: Invasion", we can guess the progress of the war from these bits and pieces, they all seem to indicate that the war has arrived. The tragic bottleneck stage. Afterwards, the Zerg controlled the Star Marshal through a certain level of consciousness communication, and Carl also controlled some of the Zerg engineers in a certain way. This was a turning point for both parties. In addition, there was also the skinnies, a race that had never appeared before. In the dark, the trend of this situation is bound to be more complicated and chaotic.
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