#ender'sgame

[margueritesauvage]

Quick fanart from Netflix Young Adult Spanish series OLYMPO - I quite enjoyed watching it, loved the characters (and the cast!), gave me the feeling of Ender's Game within a school of sport excellence. Also: it helped me in my learning of Spanish!

[itschyytea-blog]

Bookworm 2018

My resolution in January was to read 1 book a month. 

I have successfully read 15 to the day. 

The Magnolia Story. 

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman. 

War Storm.

Prince Caspian.

The Horse and His Boy.

The Lion the With and the Wardrobe.

The Magicians Nephew. 

Ready Player One. 

Unqualified.

Ender’s Game. 

A Christmas Carol. 

Mortal Engines.

Norse Mythology. 

Journey to the Center of the Earth. 

Queen Song. 

I struggled through finishing the first book of the Mortal Engines series last night. I have to say I hated that book until the last few chapters. 

I’m really proud of myself for getting this accomplished but it has also really reminded me of how much I adore reading. 

Any suggestions? 

[adamwatchesmovies]

Ender’s Game (2013)

The director of X-Men Origins: Wolverine also directed Ender’s Game. That's a stunner. Then again, Gavin Hood also directed Tsotsi so really, it's the comic book movie that's the outlier. While this picture failed to make bank at the box office, that only means it's ready to be discovered by audiences at home. This is a thought-provoking, exciting and intelligent science fiction film, the kind we wish we'd see more often.

Set decades after an alien attack in 2114, it's only a matter of time before the Formics return. The International Fleet recruits gifted children (whose minds are better at grasping the complex mathematics involved in space travel) to lead a pre-emptive strike. Colonel Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) believes young Andrew “Ender” Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) will make the perfect commander.

When Ender’s Game was released in theatres, many called for its boycott. If you have the misfortune of glimpsing author Orson Scott Card’s homophobia, you'll understand why, but here’s the thing: Card isn’t making money off of the box office. He IS from book sales, however. If you’re intrigued by the story (and you should be), forget the book. Go for the movie. In some ways, I like it better anyway.

Most films about alien invaders are about the big battle, the desire to crush the enemy, and seeing the space bug's homeworld reduced to ruins. Ender's Game is about something deeper. It’s about a boy pushed to become a killer when he doesn’t want to be. It asks legitimate questions about the morality of sending soldiers to war. It is wrong to rip him and his fellow students away from a normal life on Earth, but after the war, they don't have the luxury of being children either. It's immoral, but what's more important in the end; your principles, or survival? The training at the academy pushes the children to think differently than they would. The way Ender strategizes during the many exercises, the way he navigates among his peers, his family, and his superiors prove he is the perfect candidate Colonel Graff wanted. What you wonder is whether he's "perfect" because he's young enough to be molded into a mindless war machine or because he's not old enough to have his independence snuffed out. You’ll want to hit pause and think about these ideas before the plot moves onto the next one, but that would mean interrupting its flow.

The screenplay by Gavin Hood delicately balances character development, moral conundrums, and action. The bulk of the film is set not on the battlefield, but in a special school where Ender learns to strategize and learn about his enemies. The training exercises are skilfully directed, exciting, and satisfying. When was the last time you heard that about classes?

Unfortunately, Ender’s Game ends on a note that hints at a sequel that will never come. The story nonetheless feels complete. It features complex characters whose actions you’ll love debating and analyzing. It boasts an impressive cast (Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Viola Davis, and many other talents join Butterfield and Ford), exciting action sequences, and a killer climax. It may not have the emotional depth of the novel (how could it when it only lasts 114 minutes?), but it comes close and it’s a lot more interesting to see people flying through the air shooting at each other than it is reading about it. (On Blu-ray, February 10, 2017)

[blogkatrose]

Ender's Game is a classic sci-fi novel that got a lot of attention recently after the film came out a few years ago. As is usually the case, the film was a bit disappointing compared to the book. The ethical questions and inner struggles the protagonist faces in the novel were... 

[redlegomaniac]

Story Prompt

Okay, so I was reading Ender’s game again, and I realized that Hiccup could fit in as Ender, as a child he didn’t fit in because he was different and was bullied by his brother, Dagur? or his cousin Snotlout. After his chip is removed, Snotlout begins bullying him more with the help of a few more older students who also did not make it into the International Fleet. After a brush with Hiccup’s angry side, an IF commander, Gobber, accompanied by the ‘Dragons’, platoon leaders of the station, travel to his home and take him (with consent of course) to be trained at the big space station place. There he meets Astrid, who was a natural at zero-G combat, Fishlegs, whose tactical prowess was overshadowed by his shyness, the Twins, who made the most insane plans… that always worked, and Camicazi, another cadet who mastered the movement system.

There’re six platoons. Sharp Platoon, led by Stormfly, Strike Platoon, led by Tony Fury, often called the Night furies, they’re by far the best.

[nicolependragon-blog]

“Why are you upside down, soldier?” Quotation from Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card | Graphic by Nicole Pendragon

[bleufeenix]

Vacay business

Yesssssss!!!!! Freedom is such a beautiful thing, even if you’re bloody sick. First order of entertainment business, watch Ender’s Game. Glad I read the book, though my memory is a little fuzzy as far as the plot is concerned. I was so eager to watch this movie when it first came out, and then like all other things life happened and I forgot about this movie. Let’s see how this flick turns out.

[indigo-cardinal-blog]

The enemy's gate is down.

Ender's Game 

I just finished this yesterday! It was so good, though the ending was meh.