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HeвЂ™s our favorite mass-market auteur, a real genius. No point is served by arguing with the popular press over its presupposed dumbness, but Brian DвЂ™Amato and I did fervently believe that our enthusiasm for VerhoevenвЂ™s movies was a legitimate art- and Hollywood-passion. Being misunderstood is the common fate of strange and original art, but the stubborn obtuseness of most mainstream critics in response to Verhoeven has been risible. Subsequent Verhoeven films such as Showgirls (1995) and Starship Troopers (1997) fared less well at the box office and were typically savaged in the popular press. People complained about the unrelenting violence and about the socially unredeeming (albeit extremely glamorous) portrayals of ice pickвЂ“wielding dykes.

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ThereвЂ™s something weirdly disjunctive about the elegant if gory killings in VerhoevenвЂ™s last Dutch film and the out-of-control body counts amassed in subsequent Hollywood productions, especially the assassination-a-go-go of Total Recall (1990) and the giddy celebration of sex-hungry lesbian serial killers that is Basic Instinct (1992).

I had no idea that The Fourth Man, a less than completely successful film, would prove the вЂњbridgeвЂќ between VerhoevenвЂ™s European art-house past and the string of controversial Hollywood blockbusters that lay in his future, beginning with RoboCop in 1987. Verhoeven, as I later learned, was at that time probably the NetherlandsвЂ™ most renowned filmmaker, having directed such critically acclaimed features as Turkish Delight (1973), which received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, Soldier of Orange (1977), and Spetters (1980). The director was unknown to me, but the promise of gaudy violence and AC/DC sex scenes no doubt lured me in. One day in college I went to the local art house to see Paul VerhoevenвЂ™s The Fourth Man (1983).