Paul Verhoeven
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Sep 11, 2026
James StoutHOST
He looks like fucking Joe Tracy, is what he looks like.
Garrison DavisHOST
And the book, Starship Troopers, is a largely pro-war exploration of militarism using a science fiction setting, in contrast to the film adaptation by Paul Verhoeven, which criticizes and satirizes what the book was exploring in earnest.
Garrison DavisHOST
In Verhoeven's film, the officer uniforms are inspired by real military uniforms of the 20th century.
Garrison DavisHOST
This AI image posted by Trump seems to be more based on the Galactic Empire in Star Wars, whose design was pulling from both the Imperial British and German Nazi uniforms.
Zeth LundyHOST
This is what America was watching at the movies in April of 1992, the month that The Player was released in theaters.
Zeth LundyHOST
[reel scrolling] Number one, Basic Instinct, directed by Paul Verhoeven.
Zeth LundyHOST
Number two, White Men Can't Jump, directed by Ron Shelton.
Zeth LundyHOST
Number three, Beethoven, directed by Brian Levant.
Sean WellsHOST
Well, on that note, let's jump into Total Recall.
Sean WellsHOST
Directed by Paul Verhoeven.
Sean WellsHOST
Produced by Buzz Feltchans and Ronald Shusett.
Sean WellsHOST
And written by Philip K. Dick.
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Aaron KnowlesHOST
Good old Cohagen.
Aaron KnowlesHOST
This guy is the...
Aaron KnowlesHOST
He's a Verhoeven staple, for one.
Aaron KnowlesHOST
Yes, he is a proverbial mustache-twirling villain in just about everything.
Charlie ClausenHOST
Yeah.
Guy DavisHOST
I mean, you look at young Rutger Hauer, the movie he was making with Paul Verhoeven in, uh, in, in the Netherlands, like, you know, Soldier of Orange or Turkish Delight or whatever, he's, you know, just incredibly handsome, incredibly magnetic, incredibly still.
Charlie ClausenHOST
Mm.
Guy DavisHOST
I mean, if you look at what he does with Roy Batty, and you add a, just another sort of...
Seth AndrewsHOST
There's a space force commander.
Seth AndrewsHOST
Have you seen the new space force uniforms that, that were supposedly inspired by the Paul Verhoeven film Starship Troopers? Now, anybody who is remotely self-aware understands that Starship Troopers was actually kind of a satire.
Seth AndrewsHOST
It was a commentary on a fascist state, a right-wing, I'm doing my part, warlike country that is doing battle against the evil other.
Seth AndrewsHOST
And I really do think that the, uh, creatures in Starship Troopers represented foreigners and anybody who was not white right.
JustinHOST
super satire, yeah.
JustinHOST
It's Paul Verhoeven, man.
JustinHOST
He leans
NickHOST
so much into it.
Damien WalterHOST
Certainly up there with 2001, A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, a movie that has fascinated audiences now for somewhere around 40 years.
Damien WalterHOST
But also Total Recall, Paul Verhoeven's super violent take on one of the short stories of Philip K. Dick that does...
Damien WalterHOST
Through the somewhat twisted lens of Paul Verhoeven, also famous for movies like Robocop, Starship Troopers, someone who loved to pick up science fiction stories and twist them and almost somewhat make fun of them.
Damien WalterHOST
And in Total Recall, Paul Verhoeven is making fun of this psychedelic odyssey that Philip K. Dick has.
Damien WalterHOST
had sent his characters on.
Damien WalterHOST
Also Minority Report, of course, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, probably the blandest of the famous science fiction movies, blockbuster cinema based on the work of Philip K. Dick.
Andrew KlavanHOST
So, what did I give it? A B? Yeah, B+, whatever.
Andrew KlavanHOST
RoboCop, Paul Verhoeven, weird, weird director.
Andrew KlavanHOST
He started out as a foreign director, made a film called The Fourth Man, which is really a mind-blowing film, and then just started to make kind of sci-fi movies that were really weird.
Andrew KlavanHOST
RoboCop Battle, what was the other one? Battleship, I can't remember.
JoshuaHOST
Starship Troopers, the 1997 film.
JoshuaHOST
The one Paul Verhoeven made after growing up in Nazi-occupied Hague, where his family moved in 1943 when he was five years old.
JoshuaHOST
No one, where the costumes were sort of built, was unaware that this was Nazi propaganda aesthetics on purpose, as like a joke, at the expense of exactly this kind of guy.
JoshuaHOST
The one where Neil Patrick Harris shows up in an SS officer's coat and the crew reportedly starts calling him Doogie Himmler.
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WillHOST
anything.
WillHOST
So, who's holding the bag on this one? Let's do the people.
WillHOST
And I want to start with the guy who has the strangest position in the whole story, which is Paul Verhoeven.
JoshuaHOST
The most vindicated man in Hollywood right now.
Henry ZebrowskiHOST
He died in his 80s.
Henry ZebrowskiHOST
He died of a pulmon- pulmonary embolism, and his son, who is, um, legitimately looks like a villain out of a Paul Verhoeven movie, uh, was arrested living in this old house that they all shared together in the Kensington area of Philly.
Henry ZebrowskiHOST
And those of you who don't know, Kensington's kind of fucked up, right? Kensington's super, it's a rough neighborhood.
Ed LarsonHOST
Yeah.
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