Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
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The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny Modern action and superhero films fetishize the body, even as they desexualize it. by RS Benedict When Paul Verhoeven adapted Starship Troopers in the late 1990s, did he know he was predicting the future? The endless desert war, the ubiquity of military propaganda, a cheerful face shouting victory as more and more bodies pile up? But the scene that left perhaps the greatest impact on the minds of Nineties kids—and the scene that anticipated our current cinematic age the best—does not feature bugs or guns. It is, of course, the shower scene, in which ou
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