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Article: From trooper to trouper. (actor Casper Van Dien)
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- Interview
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- December 1, 1997
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Given that American movies so blithely overreach reality, the resemblance between an imagined military and the real thing is unsettling. Ever since the Vietnam War, when the sky cracked open and betrayed this country's sunny innocence. the values and purpose of our armed forces have increasingly been called into question. The scrim of an ordered military morality is gone. leaving us with turmoil driven By extremist mind-sets and mortal weakness.
Casper Van Dien is an actor who, in his first film at least, personifies the self-confidence of the American military before the fall without apparent irony. As Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers. Van Dien leads a young crack ...
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