Plots In The Movie Adaptation Of Ender's Game

Think about something you worked really hard on, perhaps a school project, and imagine if somebody took your work and ruined it. Tom Clancy’s Patriot Games is a book about a former U.S. Marine officer, now naval historian Jack Ryan stopping a terrorist plot and assassination attempt, then having to deal with its consequences. Phillip Noyce’s movie adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Patriot Games omits many important character details from the book, therefore resulting in the movie adaptation having less emotional effects and connections to the reader. The movie mainly achieves that by altering character relationships, cutting important character details, and omitting characters from the book.

Ender’s game by Orson Scott Card is a science fiction novel that takes place in the future and involves a kid named Ender, the protagonist of the story. He is sent to battle school to defeat the buggers (the enemies) with many other kids who are put through lots of challenges. The government has picked Ender who is 6 years old and is a third child, his older siblings were not selected by the government because his sister, Valentine, is too kind and compassionate while his older brother,Peter, is ruthless and hot-tempered. Ender is both a monster and a hero because he’s half Peter and half Valentine.

What could be better than a six year old boy killing two people, going to battle school, becoming a commander and killing an entire species? And he did all that by the time he was 13 years old. There’s a little bit of a difference between the book Enders game and the movie Ender Game. In the book Ender Wiggins was 6 years old and by the end he was 13 but in the movie he stayed 16 the whole time.

Viktor E. Frankl (who is he) once said “When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.” This quote suggests that sometimes things are out of one’s hands, and you must change your perspective to make a positive outcome of the situation. In Orson Scott Card's “Ender's Game”, the violent and manipulative environment that surrounds Ender leads him to become a cynical and jaded character. This demonstrates that children should be protected from such environments to preserve their innocence.

Is there any hope for the human race, every day that goes by some is harmed from another being. Whether the violence was intended or not, life still goes by. In the everyday life for those in Ender's Game, they were pretty much born into the hands of the government to fight the buggers. Taken at a young age those of Ender's Game was given no personality and were molded by the games of violence and training.

As a nine year old child, Ender should be happy and energized, but what the reader sees through the novel, Ender gets less like a child and the pressure from before, even though relieved, does still take a toll on him, showing that pressure the human race puts on it's youth to succeed, even when taken off,can still take its toll. Through catharsis, In the novel, Ender’s Game, Orson Scott card shows the reader real resemblance through major pressures in the novel, and in reality’s schools and lives. Unlike catharsis, Imagery makes the reader sympathise for characters, and experience situations.

I completely agree with everything you said. Ender never wanted to be anything like Peter. As a child, he was constantly bullied and he tormented by Peter. Your quote is interesting to me because it sums up what Ender was created for. Even though he is ruthless as Peter, he is also empathetic as sister, Valentine. One way he shows how ruthless he can be is when he beats up Stilson so badly and he continues to beat him even when he was on the ground and could not defend himself. When it was time to kill the buggers, he did not want to because he had grown attach to them and he does not want to hurt anyone. After the buggers were killed and everyone were celebrating, he was the only one not celebrating. He was both sad and angry because he

On the other hand, in the film Ender remains a young teenager the whole movie. This could be most likely due to the fact that the creators of the film didn’t want to have to cast three different aged actors that looked very similar enough to be the same person. Also, this change made Ender’s time at the Battle School seem like it took weeks rather than years which would help move along the flow of the movie and make it so the plot didn't seem to drag on as we watched a six year old develop into a young adult. Even though this change might have positively affected to overall flow of the storyline in the movie it feels like an uneven tradeoff when considering we lose the greater insight to the development of Ender over the years he spends at Battle School. For example, in the movie Ender has a very big problem with authority figures but he is a young teenager and that is socially expected of him to act out towards adults. In the book when Ender talks back to the adults it is as a six to eight year old which is a much more powerful image with a much more antithetical meaning. An eight year old Ender would feel as if he was the underclass and this would explain his subversive tendencies towards the adults who were in charge at the Battle School. Since Ender is older in the movie the back talk and anti-superior mindset he establishes has much less shock value when watching it on screen. On screen Ender’s

In our world of advanced technology, we love to watch movies more than we love to read. Sitting in front of a flat-screen TV while eating popcorn and drinking soda would sound much more appealing than reading a book by the fire at night while drinking a frappucino from Starbucks. Now, producers and directors would take successful and famous stories and adapt it into a movie. Sometimes, they would succeed, with examples being the Harry Potter series, which received mainly positive reviews from both critics and the audience. However, most of the time these people would unknowingly butcher the book based movie by taking out many important characters and events, with good examples being The Lightning Thief and Eragon. Then another example of a

Markus Zusak and Scott Orson Card both develop their main characters as innocent and dark. In the book Ender's Game , Card makes Ender this kid who has been bullied by his brother his whole life and does not fight back. He lets all the anger store up and lets his brother bully him, so when he got accepted into battle school and started fighting battles he was not horrible at it. “‘Well, now your guardian angels aren’t watching over you,’ Peter said. ‘Now the aren’t checking to see if you feel pain, listening to hear what I’m saying, seeing what I’m doing to you. How about that? How about it?’ Ender shrugged. Suddenly Peter smiled and clapped his hands together in a mockery of good cheer. ‘Let’s play buggers and astronauts,’ he said” (Card 10).

Although life isn’t always fair for kids you have to let them win sometimes so they dont’ get discouraged. When Ender woke up in the morning there was an old man sitting on the floor. The man didn’t talk to Ender so Ender didn’t talk to the man. When Ender was ready to leave he tried the door which was locked still the man said nothing. In the words of Card “Ender didn’t like games where the rules could be anything and the objectives were known to them alone” (Card 183).

“You won’t fail, Ender. Not this early in the course. You’ve had some tight ones, but you’ve always won. You don’t know what your limits are yet, but if you’ve reached them already you’re a good deal feebler than I thought.” (Card 286). Ender’s Game is a dystopian novel by Orson Scott Card that follows the training and thoughts of the protagonist, Ender, ultimately ending with the destruction of an alien race, the buggers. Ender’s militaristic and desperate society forces him to unwillingly commit genocide to an extent where Ender’s withering and empathetic mind begins to question the consequences of his actions.

This novel is about a brilliant military strategist, Ender Wiggin, whose story takes place in the future where there is a constant threat of an invasion from aliens who have been given the slanderous nickname, Bugger. Ender’s childhood is not an easy one considering he gets teased at school for being a “third” only to come home to an abusive brother who is always harassing Ender and his sister Valentine and he has the weight of the world on his shoulders because they believe that he is the last hope for mankind to fight off the Buggers. After many years of monitoring Ender the International Fleet decides they want to recruit Ender into Battle

Gavin Hood’s adaptation of Orson Scott Card’ The Ender’s Game is a very thrilling adventure.

The discussion of wether film adaptations are better than their novels is ongoing. Khaled Hosseni’s “The Kite Runner” was a New York Times bestseller that was better than the film made for it. Films have time constraints as a long novels must be fit within a 1-2 hour time frame. They have production issues as some scenes from the book are inappropriate for all viewers. Movies also need to target a range of audiences to become blockbuster hits, whereas, novels do not. Although directors strive to make novel-based films as closely related to the books as possible, inevitable distinctions continue to exist.