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theme (premise comparison): Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind → Starship Troopers. Early in the film it reads as Miyazaki's people-versus-bugs movie, but its ending flips the Starship Troopers propaganda by having the heroine empathize with the bugs.
“Like this is his people versus Bugs movie.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:38:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (inversion): Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind → Starship Troopers. Starship Troopers ends with bug-hatred propaganda, whereas Nausicaä realizes the bugs are just trying to survive and approaches them with empathy.
“reading the mind of the bug and cheering the fact that they're afraid because it's all about propaganda.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:43:58 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): RoboCop → Starship Troopers. Starship Troopers is the most extreme form of the deconstruction-as-entertainment approach.
“Starship Troopers is sort of the most extreme version of it where they're like, we won.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 0:19:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Paul Verhoeven → Starship Troopers. He pitched Starship Troopers with a VFX demo of a bug killing a cow.
“It was all VFX of like a bug killing a cow.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Ready Player One → Starship Troopers. Ready Player One will be competent Spielberg but is no Starship Troopers.
“It's no Starship Troopers.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:43:14 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)