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Paul Verhoeven
Director
With , and Paul Verhoeven established himself as the maestro of the subversive science fiction blockbuster – he successfully married big-budget populism with stealthy but trenchant satire.
RoboCop, Total Recall and Starship Troopersdirector
These movies delivered spectacle and thrills but consistently targeted corporate greed, unbridled militarism and the perils of allowing escapism and propaganda to dominate public discourse.