<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:09 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br>> > Hollyweird had a wonderful opportunity here, with this historical narrative. They can take the actual truth, a most compelling story, where the enigma machine was cracked by mathematical technology, use the actual facts, no real embellishment. They get a gay character for free, no need to write one<br>
in with the often-clumsy way moviemakers do<div><br></div><div>Yes but I hope the moviemakers realize that the most interesting thing about Turing wasn't that he was gay, lots of people are gay, it's that he was a genius, and lots of people aren't geniuses .<br>
<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">> I was so pleasantly surprised to find that the moviemakers did an excellent job of translating that terrific book [Enders Game] into video<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree the moviemakers did a very good job with Enders Game, but they were punished for their excellent work, the movie was not a box office success. They'll never do that again.<br></div>
<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">>even fixing some of Card's most vexing problems. (Sorry Mr. Card, they did. It was one of those very rare cases when an excellent book spawned an even better movie.)<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>There were a few times in the weightless war room were it seemed to me that Mr. Card might have been a little confused as to the difference between weight and mass, Is that what you were referring to? Of course the physics of the Ansible is also impossible but that's different; I think it was Isaac Asimov who said that it's OK for a SF writer to violate the laws of physics, but he must be aware that he's doing so.<br>
<br></div><div> John K Clark<br></div><div><br> <br></div></div><br></div><br></div></div>