[ExI] enders game

[spike]

>. On Behalf Of John Clark
Subject: Re: [ExI] enders game

 

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 2:39 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

>>. Cool, I went to a screening of Enders Game this evening.  They did
something I thought was proven impossible: make a movie from a good book
without screwing up the book.  They followed it closely and even managed to
get the point across.  They even fixed that problem Card had in the arena
scene: in that the movie is actually an improvement over an excellent book.
Well done, Gavin Hood!

 

>.I too saw Ender's Game yesterday, I almost didn't go because I thought I
wouldn't like it much but I was wrong, it was excellent. And I haven't even
read the book but now I think I should.

  John K Clark

 

Ja, I thought the book was excellent, most worthwhile, for it does something
I don't see often in SciFi: real character development.  (Damien Broderick
gets this and does a good job with it too; Damien is a writer who took up
SciFi as opposed to a scientist who took up writing.)  Card really gets it;
the entire Enders series has excellent pathos and ethos.

 

John I almost didn't go too, because I was worried Hollywood would screw up
the story by overemphasizing the fighting aspect, the kind of stuff that
sells movies to the movie crowd.  Ender gets into two fights in the book,
actually kills both of his opponents.  They downplay that in the movie,
which I think is probably a slight improvement, and make the second case a
legitimate accident, where Ender's intention was unclear in the book.
(Ender readers, did he intend to slay the bastard in the second case?)

 

The final battle scene graphics are excellent, better than Star Wars
quality.

 

Hood was appropriately modest: he didn't try to rewrite the story, he stayed
close to the original, recognized what was the point of the book, the whole
reluctant warrior leader aspect of it all.  He recognizes that any yahoo can
write a space cowboys vs Indians battle story, but Card's Ender is special.

 

spike

 

 

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