Meeting Minutes 4/22/2018 4:00 P.M.
Members in attendance:
Kartik Thooppal Vasu
Wyatt Henke
Forrest Cinelli
Rushdi Abualhaija

Rushdi’s computer died, again :(

Stuff to do:

Read topics and upload to site about how they relate to the movie:

• Errors, Failures, and Risks - Rushdi
• Professional Ethics - Kartik
• Work - Wyatt

Presentation Draft:

• Overview
• Conclusion: Starship Troopers satirizes militarism
• Computing Technologies
• Freedom of speech
  • Soldiers (and leaders) instantly conclude the ‘bugs’ are evil
• Privacy: no character ever has anything to hide.
• Fascist references
  • Carl wears an SS uniform
  • Eagle symbolism, like the holy roman Empire and imperial and nazi germany
  • Movie is intentionally ‘bad’, i.e. low production value, to mock Hollywood’s mostly positive treatment of militarism
  • The combat scenes have stupid choreography and gore, and some of the sci-fi elements are intentionally dumb, to mock what the writers see as dumb elements of more serious movies
  • How much evidence that hollywood’s treatment of militarism is mostly positive do we need to give?
  • Counterpoint/response: it’s actually serious, so it’s not satire, it’s war propaganda

Meeting on 04/23: 6pm