Starship Troopers (film)
Overview
Starship Troopers is a 1997 American military science fiction
Military science fiction
Military science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction in which the principal characters are members of a military service and an armed conflict is taking place, normally in space, or on a planet other than Earth...

 film
Film
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, written by Edward Neumeier
Edward Neumeier
Edward Neumeier is an American screenwriter best known for his work on the science fiction movies RoboCop and Starship Troopers...

 (screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...

), directed by Paul Verhoeven, loosely adapted from Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published hardcover in December, 1959.The first-person narrative is about a young soldier from the Philippines named Juan "Johnnie" Rico and his...

, a science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 novel by Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of...

. It is the only theatrically released film in the Starship Troopers franchise. The film had an enormous budget estimated around $105 million and grossed over $121 million worldwide.

The story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico
Juan Rico
Juan "Johnnie" or "Johnny" Rico is the protagonist of Robert A. Heinlein's 1958 science-fiction novel Starship Troopers. He also appears in the films Starship Troopers and Starship Troopers 3: Marauder , and in the television series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles.-Biography:In Starship...

 and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry
Mobile Infantry (Starship Troopers)
The Mobile Infantry is a fictional military force in Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers and in the movies Starship Troopers, released in 1997, the 2004 sequel, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation, the 2008 film Starship Troopers 3: Marauder and the TV series Roughnecks: Starship...

, a futuristic military unit.
Quotations

Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation.

I need a corporal. You're it until you're dead or I find someone better.

This is for all you new people: I only have one rule. Everyone fights. No one quits. You don't do your job, I'll shoot you myself. You get me?

I expect the best and I give the best. Here's the beer. Here's the entertainment. Now have fun. That's an order.

Figuring things out for yourself is practically the only freedom anyone really has nowadays. Use that freedom.

Genocide doesn't compare to this.

Prepare for Battle

The paratroopers of the future are here... and their enemies aren't HUMAN

When you battle 6 trillion enemies that will eat you alive, there are only two rules... EVERYONE FIGHTS. NO ONE QUITS.

 
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