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Join the Mobile Infantry and save the Galaxy. Service guarantees citizenship. Would you like to know more?
— Starship Troopers • 1997
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The line is satire wearing a recruiting poster's grin: a society where only veterans can vote sells enlistment like a breakfast cereal. Verhoeven wanted the spots to feel earnest and slightly sinister, and 'Would you like to know more?' became the shorthand for any too-eager sales pitch. Fans type it under propaganda posts, game ads and anything that smells like a cult invitation.
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In context
Spoilers for Starship TroopersShow the scene
Starship Troopers (1997), directed by Paul Verhoeven from a screenplay by Edward Neumeier, is threaded with FedNet propaganda spots that serve as the future's news and ads. The recruitment appeal, in which a cheerful announcer says 'Join the Mobile Infantry' and 'Service guarantees citizenship', recurs through the film, and the same slogan closes it over footage of Rico leading troops back into battle. The FedNet sequences were invented for the film, and a number were shot in a single week in January 1997.
Sources (2)
- Wikipedia: Starship Troopers (film)Production, FedNet sequences, and plot endingReference checked
- Wikiquote: Starship Troopers (film)Dialogue, newsreel closing; About section critic quotationReference checked
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