I lost my heart to a starship trooper
September 3rd 2008 03:34
I quite enjoyed "Starship Troopers", Paul Vehoeven's candied adaptation of the Robert Heinlein novel. The film won praise and scorn for deviating from the tone of Heinlein's book, projecting a sense of anti-war satire.
The movie was quite successful, spawning video games and sequels, none of which won much acclaim, especially since director Verhoeven left the series after the first film.
It's a little known fact, however, that Sarah Brightman made her own contribution to the Starship Troopers universe, with a song from her early years, "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper".
It's from '78, and it's sci-fi disco, sampling lyrics and music from Star Wars and Flash Gordon.
In 1978, that might have seemed like a great idea, but now, lyrics based on Star Wars are purely rooted in nerdcore, I think.
Space disco, baby! It's something missing from the original Star Wars movies... sure, they listened to cosmic jazz in the Cantina, but what about the club scene? I think we missed out on important scenes, with Han and Chewie dropping death sticks and sweatily coming onto young, nubile Twi'leks.
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