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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I skipped over the parts about the brother and sister influencing world evvents by blogging, or whatever it was. I can see the earlier version being better.
Love interest?
One of the main themes of the story is Ender’s isolation.
Awesome
Has a release date been announced?
You are right there.
The guts of it are the best. The remainder is, well, pretty lame really.
Plenty of classic SF did
The sequels to Dune - Children of Dune was serialized on Analog too IIRC.
Also Haldemans “Forever War” was a long story in Analog.
Very excited for the movie.I’ve read the book twice. Then I asked for the audio book a few years ago so I can sit and listen to it. So great.
I just saw “The Fugitive” again this weekend. Good movie. I also liked him in “Air Force One”.
I just wish he was not a stinking damned liberal.
One of the best books ever written.
Agreed. It’s also on the Marine Corps Commandant’s reading list.
Great book.
The sequels and spinoffs, not so much.
Can't wait for the movie.
He spoke of more than a few opportunities to take Ender's Game to the movies but he would not compromise the story; hopefully the movie follows the story.
This would have been a perfect vehicle for an anime series.
Ender’s killing of the bully is horrifying, because it’s so cold blooded. Merely a weighing of options, benefits, and outcomes. No thought about the moral implications.
A theme, btw, that runs throughout the entire book.
But it’s pretty amazing he came up with idea of blogging when he did.
He is, but he's not in-your-face about it. He keeps his politics to himself and that's fine by me.
What I know of HF, I like.
Two anecdotes:
Like many other Hollywood types, HF owns a nice place near Jackson Hole WY. He found out that a developer wanted to put up condos down the hill from his place, which would have ruined the gorgeous view. So, instead of being a "don't-you-know-who-I-am!?" type, he simply bought the land himself so he could keep it beautiful. An excellent, and I believe conservative, solution.
Second, a friend who has two daughters once took them to the Jackson Hole airport for an annual Free Airplane Ride for Kids sort of event. Private pilots stood by their planes and the organizers assigned kids to particular planes and pilots. My friend's kids walked to their assigned plane, and the pilot smiled and shook their hands, saying, "Hi! My name is Harrison Ford. I'll be your pilot today."
Democrat or not, he strikes me as a really decent and humble person.
He didn't intend to kill the kid. He wanted to send a message that he wasn't to be messed with by bullies. I actually was pretty impressed by that scene.
Not so much when it’s wildly off base. The Internet turned out yo be pretty much exactly the opposite. Plus, by 85 I should think people were already talking to eachother on the earlier versions of the web. Now that I think about it maybe it was more like a chatroom than a blog.
I’m more impressed with the kaptops as learning tools and kids’ continuing obsession with video games.
Not so much when it’s wildly off base. The Internet turned out to be pretty much exactly the opposite. Plus, by 85 I should think people were already talking to eachother on the earlier versions of the web. Now that I think about it maybe it was more like a chatroom than a blog.
I’m more impressed with the laptops as learning tools and kids’ continuing obsession with video games.
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