If you are going to glorify both war and the warriors who fight them, there is nothing quite like making the enemy an alien. Literally. Something from outer space. No affiliation with the Commies. Or the Nazis. Or the Islamic jihahists. Who the fuck wouldn’t embrace slaughtering actual aliens hell-bent on taking over the whole fucking planet?
And then of course once the military and warriors and war itself have been glorified you can insinuate the narrative into any conflict with any enemy.
On the other hand, there was Hitler.
Indeed, here one might go so far as to worship the ubermen. And now of course the uberwomen. Though they are still very few and very far between. With a smattering of blacks. The usual in other words.
And, if nothing else, “warriors” like Tom Cruise can at least brag that he did his own stunts. Most of them anyway. And doesn’t he start out as but one of the chicken shit sheep?
Of course once it shifts from Aliens to Groundhog Day it shifts from science-fiction to pure fantasy. La la Land. That either ruins it for you or it doesn’t. Still, if nothing else you can use the plot and the alien technology to engender a discussion about the mystery that is time. Controlling it for example. And what that tells us about, say, free will?
Then again, the occasional humor in the script is dependent on the bits about time. Just like in Groundhog Day.
Live. Die. Repeat. Oh, and look for the full metal bitch. One of the boys. And then some.
IMDb
[b]While filming the car chase scene which includes a mini-van, Emily Blunt was instructed to drive fast and then to take a right hand turn so that the van would shake. However, Blunt missed her mark and she drove the car right into a tree. She later said that it was both hilarious and terrifying, as she almost killed Tom Cruise, who was in the passenger seat, but both of them started laughing after the incident.
At the beginning of the movie there was a montage of different newscasters, news footage, and public officials trying to deal with the alien invasion. One of the public officials they showed was Hillary Clinton. It’s implied that she was President of the United States. The movie was released in 2014, two years before the 2016 presidential elections
The filmmakers described this project as a cross between Groundhog Day (1993) and Starship Troopers (1997). [/b]
at wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Tomorrow_(film
trailer: youtu.be/yUmSVcttXnI
THE EDGE OF TOMORROW [2014]
Directed by Doug Liman
General Brigham: Operation Downfall, the entire might of the UDF invading from France, the Mediterranean, Scandinavia, relieving pressure in the Eastern front and allowing the Russians and Chinese to push the enemy back and we all meet in the middle, exterminating this Mimic scourge along the way. A lot of good soldiers are going to die tomorrow, Major, and when the smoke clears and the body bags start coming home people tend to look for someone to blame, someone like me. Ideally I’d prefer a different scenario.
American warriors, Russian warriors, Chinese warriors. One for all and all for one. Until the “common enemy” is destroyed .Then it is back to “business as usual”. Literally, business as usual.
[b]Cage: A best selling memoir perhaps? Maybe a career in politics? Off the top of my head I would go with the…“The Sense of Manifest Destiny”, “Rags to Riches: Rags Rise Through The Ranks, Born to Deliver”. You see people, well, they’d love that sort of thing.
General Brigham: You misunderstand, Major. I didn’t ask you here to sell me, I want you to sell the invasion.
…
Cage: General, I just inspired millions of people to join your army, and when the body bags come home and they’re looking for someone to blame, how hard do you think it would be for me to convince people to blame you? I’d imagine a General would prefer to avoid that.
General Brigham: Are you blackmailing me, Major?
Cage: I would prefer not to be filming acts of heroism and valor on that beach tomorrow.
[Brigham gets up and walks over to Cage]
General Brigham: You won’t be.
[as Cage leaves the office Brigham turns to one of his guards]
General Brigham: Arrest this man.
…
Cage: You’re name’s Farell?
Master Sergeant Farell: That’s right. Master Sergeant Farell.
Cage: Master Sergeant Farell, you’re an American.
Master Sergeant Farell: No, sir. I’m from Kentucky.
…
Master Sergeant Farell: Rumor is a terrible thing, and not following these men we’ll all reach the same conclusion, that you’re a coward and a liar putting your life above theirs. The good new is there’s hope for your, Private. Hope in the form of glorious combat, battle is the great redeemer, the fiery crucible in which the only true heroes are forged. The one place where all men truly share the same rank, regardless of what kind of parasitic scum they were going in.[/b]
That’s pretty much what they told me too. Only the “common enemy” back then were “gooks”.
But then the weird shit begins.
[b]Rita: Find me when you wake up.
Cage: What?
Rita: Come find me when you wake up…
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Rita: Whenever an Alpha is killed, an automatic response is triggered. The Omega [the centtral brain] starts the day over again, but you see this time it can remember what’s going to happen, just like you do.
Dr. Carter: It-it knows exactly what we’re going to do before we’re gonna do it.
Rita: And an enemy that knows the future can’t lose.
Cage: But if that’s true, how did you win in Verdun?
Rita: We were allowed to win. This thing wants us to believe we can win. It wants us to throw everything we have into the invasion. Operation Downfall isn’t our end game, it’s the enemy’s.
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Dr. Carter: The thing you’ve got to understand is this is a perfectly evolved world conquering organism. For all we know, there are thousands, millions, of those asteroids floating around the cosmos like a virus. And it’s just waiting to crash land into a world with just the right conditions. All they need is for the dominant life form to attack and…
[he snaps his fingers]
Rita: And they’ll be nothing to stop the Mimics from conquering the rest of the world. Unless you change the outcome.
…
Cage: Okay. How do I control it?
Rita: You have to die.
Dr. Carter: Every day.
Rita: Until the Omega is destroyed.
Cage: Fist of all, that was a terrific presentation. Terrific. I know the General, we should take this to him. You just tell him everything you told me, he would know…
Rita: I went to see the General, Cage, any number of times. Psyche ward, dissection, remember?
…
Cage: What are you expecting from me?
Dr. Carter: Have you seen anything strange?
Cage: Is he shitting me?
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Rita: Last time I was in combat, I was hit. I was bleeding out, just not fast enough. I woke up in a field hospital with three pints of someone else’s blood and I was out. I lost the power, do you understand? Then you better start over don’t you?
Cage: What?
[Rita holds up her weapon and shoots him]
…
Cage [while in training]: Stop! Wait, wait, wait, wait! Stop! Wait a second, wait a second! I’ve been thinking… I mean, this thing is in my blood. So maybe there’s some way I can transfer it to you.
Rita: I’ve tried everything, it doesn’t work.
Cage: I mean have you tried… you know… tried all the options.
Rita: Oh, you mean sex? Yeah, tried it.
Cage: …how many times?
…
Rita: We should just reset. It’s a dead end.
Cage: Hey, hold…just…
Rita: If it’s all the same to you, I’m tired, I’m in pain. I’d rather just start fresh.
Cage: I’ll tell you what, take a few minutes. Coffee’s ready. I’ll look around for the keys, that’s productive.
Rita: Ten minutes.
Cage: Okay.
Rita: And then I’m killing you.
Cage: Fine.
…
Rita: What do we do now?
Cage: I don’t know. We’ve never gotten this far.
…
Skinner: We’re low on ammo, I’ve got one claymine. Ford, you’re out. Griff has only got half a magazine left and he can hardly move. I thought you could see the future.
Cage: I haven’t lived this day. I don’t know what’s gonna happen.
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Rita [to Cage]: Yes? What do you want?[/b]