Right. It’s like Orson Scott Card. The guy’s a homophobic POS IRL, but his book Ender’s Game is about a boy who gets bullied, he rises above it and becomes an intergalactic hero. And then you find out the author is one of the bullies. Sigh.
My only experience of ender’s Game was the movie and hot damm the movie was a hot piece of boring garbage. Is the book actually good, I see it on lists of sci-fi must read but the movie has really tainted the idea of reading it for me.
I liked the movie. Watched it twice. Bought it on iTunes. Then I read the book. I still think the movie is okay, but I can’t bring myself to watch it.
The book isn’t exactly phenomenal, but the movie didn’t nail it. Card was right when he said the audiobook was the peak adaptation and they would never make a great movie from it. The book was better than the movie, just for what the movie got wrong or missed.
Read the book if you like the idea behind the movie. The book has the same exact idea. If you didn’t like the idea, the book probably won’t win you over.
The two big changes I remember is, one, Ender was like 5 or 6 in the book, they had to age him up for the movie. Same with the other kids. They were actual children, not teenagers, not “17 is a whole ass child” children, they were actual school-age children, zero thoughts of hooking up or anything like that… little kids. For better or worse. Big babies. And that was the point, Card was suggesting that older kids or teenagers would not be suitable for the programme because, well, if you remember the ending, the book does the same thing. And two, there was a lot more focus on Ender’s family back home and the life they lived and the system of government they lived under. I believe the ruling body(ies?) on Earth played a bigger role in the later books. But what was going on back home was a bigger deal in the book where the movie focused almost exclusively on the space camp/battle school or whatever it was called (it’s been years).
Hrmm interesting I thought the concept in the movie was fine, I thought the execution and focus on the space camp nonsense was … well … nonsense. Sounds like the book might be worth a read. To be fair thats usually the case, movie adaptations almost always need to cripple the original text to shoehorn it into the medium.
Well, the space camp’s true purpose is a spoiler. It’s one of those situations where they make a thing to do one thing, but sell it to the public on another thing entirely. And they do that in the hopes that when someone passes the test, they are on board with the true purpose.
I wanna say this has been done in other mediums, but I’m trying to recall all the movies and shows and anime and games I’ve seen recently and I’m not seeing it. But I know it’s a trope.
Right. It’s like Orson Scott Card. The guy’s a homophobic POS IRL, but his book Ender’s Game is about a boy who gets bullied, he rises above it and becomes an intergalactic hero. And then you find out the author is one of the bullies. Sigh.
My only experience of ender’s Game was the movie and hot damm the movie was a hot piece of boring garbage. Is the book actually good, I see it on lists of sci-fi must read but the movie has really tainted the idea of reading it for me.
I liked the movie. Watched it twice. Bought it on iTunes. Then I read the book. I still think the movie is okay, but I can’t bring myself to watch it.
The book isn’t exactly phenomenal, but the movie didn’t nail it. Card was right when he said the audiobook was the peak adaptation and they would never make a great movie from it. The book was better than the movie, just for what the movie got wrong or missed.
Read the book if you like the idea behind the movie. The book has the same exact idea. If you didn’t like the idea, the book probably won’t win you over.
The two big changes I remember is, one, Ender was like 5 or 6 in the book, they had to age him up for the movie. Same with the other kids. They were actual children, not teenagers, not “17 is a whole ass child” children, they were actual school-age children, zero thoughts of hooking up or anything like that… little kids. For better or worse. Big babies. And that was the point, Card was suggesting that older kids or teenagers would not be suitable for the programme because, well, if you remember the ending, the book does the same thing. And two, there was a lot more focus on Ender’s family back home and the life they lived and the system of government they lived under. I believe the ruling body(ies?) on Earth played a bigger role in the later books. But what was going on back home was a bigger deal in the book where the movie focused almost exclusively on the space camp/battle school or whatever it was called (it’s been years).
Hrmm interesting I thought the concept in the movie was fine, I thought the execution and focus on the space camp nonsense was … well … nonsense. Sounds like the book might be worth a read. To be fair thats usually the case, movie adaptations almost always need to cripple the original text to shoehorn it into the medium.
Well, the space camp’s true purpose is a spoiler. It’s one of those situations where they make a thing to do one thing, but sell it to the public on another thing entirely. And they do that in the hopes that when someone passes the test, they are on board with the true purpose.
I wanna say this has been done in other mediums, but I’m trying to recall all the movies and shows and anime and games I’ve seen recently and I’m not seeing it. But I know it’s a trope.