Child soldiers? Live and die for the empire, they’re doing their part :im-doing-my-part:
Needless violence for the sake of violence? Hell yeah brother that’s the good shit :le-pol-face:
it doesn’t work. Anyone with fascist potential will look at whatever “Genocide Bad Guy The Metaphor Is Literally Spelled Out For You Armada” and think they’re fucking sick. You’re giving the fascists material.
IMO, if you really want to satirize fascism, hit them where it hurts: they are fucking incompetent buffoons who act like they’re god’s chosen race because they have no positive qualities besides the promised intrinsic ones.
Yeah, I check in on several fash accounts every so often and they love their Starship Troopers gifs and memes, in a very approving and unironic way.
It probably didn’t do much to create more fascists and we got a brilliant piece of satire out of it. I don’t want to give up smart media because people might take it wrong. They were already leaning wrong and if a movie pushed them over it was gonna happen regardless
I wonder how the faschy types feel about the cartoon series… :thinky-felix:
Who cares what fascists think? If they like it it’s either bad or they like it for the wrong reasons. They’re wrong about pretty much everything all the time, don’t spend time thinking about their opinions. Media plays a role but fascists would still be fascists if Fight Club or whatever never came out. Don’t compromise your art for the sake of fascists. Just kill them for being fascists.
My favourite anti fascist movie is Pan’s Labyrinth, where
spoiler
the fascist commander asks the communist rebels to give his baby son his fathers watch so he’ll have the same idealised image of his father as a self-sacrificing hero that the commander had of his father
They refuse and tell him the son would never know anything about his father before shooting him in the face, denying him his “glorious death”
More spoilers for the end
The idea of fascist masculinity is a major theme in the movie. The Commander insists that his unborn child is a son despite having no way of knowing. He tells a romanticized narrative about his father involving his watch, which he checks constantly throughout the film. He makes his dying wish with an air of faux dignity and the last words he hears are “No. He won’t even know your name.”
Y’all may disagree, but of movies I’ve seen I felt like Jojo Rabbit was the best satirical portrayal of fascists I’ve ever seen, because it portrayed the Nazis as a bunch of incompetent losers and weirdos.
I think Blues Brothers did a good job at this. Not only does it show how Nazis are enabled by the liberal state, it portrays them as outright stupid (this one gets cut off but that’s the Nazis at the end pulling up to Wrigley Field) and ultimately (CW: homophobic joke) fatally bumbling.
What the hell? That unfinished overpass was five miles in the sky!
:geordi-no: Starship Troopers
:geordi-yes: Spaceballs
