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'Ender's Game': Harrison Ford stares down Asa Butterfield in first photo
Entertainment Weekly ^ | December 5, 2012 | Grady Smith

Posted on 12/06/2012 12:21:15 PM PST by EveningStar

Anyone who has read Orson Scott Card’s beloved 1985 sci-fi novel, Ender’s Game, can understand why, for the past 20 years, Hollywood has been unable to adapt the book. After all, it’s challenging enough to shoot a movie about pint-sized military recruits fighting each other in a futuristic, space-set Battle School, but it’s an even taller order to capture the novel’s complex themes about war and morality...

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinema; ender; endersgame; film; movies; orsonscottcard; sciencefiction; scifi
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To: PapaBear3625
The book starts with Ender being around 5 and ends with him being 14 or so, so there is some difficulty there, particularly since Ender is a genius and approaches adult-level maturity as a child. It would have been easier as an animated movie.It is violent in places, with Ender (at around 8) beating to death an older bully. Actually, he does it twice, with the first time being in kindergarten.

This is why I cannot stand this book. Ender, and many of the other characters are completely unbelievable.
61 posted on 12/06/2012 3:51:19 PM PST by opticks
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To: tbw2

If you get a chance to read Stone Tables, by Card, it’s worth it. While not Mormon in it’s approach, it is very good. it’s essentially the Moses story, and explores how God could take ordinary men like Moses and Aaron, with all their weaknesses and imperfections, and transform them into servants of God. Great stuff.


62 posted on 12/06/2012 4:01:31 PM PST by Ripliancum (Mosiah 29:27. Look it up.)
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To: EveningStar

Ford at least has sci-fi chops. The kids are all too old anyway.


63 posted on 12/06/2012 4:12:24 PM PST by wastedyears (I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
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To: albie

Col Graff does get quite large in the book. So much so that his sides spill over armrests.


64 posted on 12/06/2012 4:13:23 PM PST by wastedyears (I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; massgopguy

They only go relativistic speeds in the movie, not faster than light.


65 posted on 12/06/2012 4:14:41 PM PST by wastedyears (I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
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To: Brookhaven

That was Petra Arkanian, when he was promoted to Salamander Army.


66 posted on 12/06/2012 4:20:37 PM PST by wastedyears (I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
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To: Prospero

He’s actually an old-school Democrat.


67 posted on 12/06/2012 4:22:05 PM PST by wastedyears (I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
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To: trisham
I love Card’s books. I’ll see the movie.

If there's a midnight release for it, I'm going.

68 posted on 12/06/2012 4:23:26 PM PST by wastedyears (I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
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To: opticks

If you don’t treat bright children like they are children, and feed them math and science, and actually encourage them to learn everything they can about whatever they want, then it’s entirely possible for children like that to exist.


69 posted on 12/06/2012 4:24:50 PM PST by wastedyears (I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
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To: Prospero

A column in the Rhino Times is proof.


70 posted on 12/06/2012 4:28:58 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: sharpee

Sharpee, Is the audio version as good as the book? Was thinking of buying the audio for Christmas.


71 posted on 12/06/2012 4:29:19 PM PST by Pit1 (Nobama.)
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To: Pit1

I think it is. They use a full cast of voice actors, plus apparently Card has a small role in the audio book as well. I listened to it twice when I had a job that left me alone to do my work.


72 posted on 12/06/2012 5:08:02 PM PST by wastedyears (I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
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To: wastedyears

It was a reference to another movie. Yes, I’ve read Card’s Ender books.


73 posted on 12/06/2012 7:10:57 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: EveningStar

That kid’s not 6.


74 posted on 12/06/2012 11:25:21 PM PST by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: FreedomPoster

Read both books years ago, both excellent books.
Star Ship Troopers examined a world that in my opinion, was governed the correct way, only military service granted full citizenship.
One thing about Enders Game that a lot of people did not get was that his training was aimed at a very specific goal; the total destruction of the enemy, right down to their extinction.
Hollyweird managed to totally screw up the story line of Star Ship Troopers, and I am sure it will do the same for Enders Game.


75 posted on 12/07/2012 12:04:28 AM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: eclecticEel

I know. He’s 15.


76 posted on 12/07/2012 10:36:27 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: ClearCase_guy

Card wrote this story three times
1) He wrote the novelette for Analog. I read it when it came out, and admired it greatly.

2) Some time later, his publisher asked him to write a sequel. He realized that he needed more background, so he wrote the full novel, then wrote “Speaker for the Dead” as a sequel, dealing with the consequences of Ender’s actions.

3) Some time later, he decided to write about what happened to the earth after Ender’s victory. To start that off, he wrote Ender’s story from Bean’s point of view.

I enjoyed each of these individually, and admired the fact that he could tell the same story three times and make it fresh each time.


77 posted on 12/08/2012 10:04:32 AM PST by Mack the knife
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To: Ripliancum
that one religion that kept just enough conservatives home the night of the election... to seal our fate.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You could say that about those who voted for the Libertarian or Constitutional parties. Fundamentally, the Demoncrats would still have stolen the election.

If Romney were a Baptist the Demoncrats would have manufactured just enough votes to steal the election.

When it comes to criminal election fraud, religion is completely irrelevant.

78 posted on 12/08/2012 10:14:08 AM PST by wintertime
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