From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 12 Aug 2023 06:51:00 -0700 (PDT), Jack Bohn   
    wrote:   
      
   >I've only read the novella version, and closer in time to its first printing   
   than to the release of the film.  (Heck, probably closer to the Moon Landing   
   than to today!)  As such, I'm in a position to apply what I've come up with as   
   fair judgement on an    
   adaptation: does it recreate the general experience of the original work, the   
   overall feeling and impression, and at least one memorable scene?  Per that,   
   yes I would say it is a faithful adaptation.   
      
   Compared to the novel (I missed the novella), it is missing a lot of   
   stuff with his brother and sister. And compresses the timeframe a bit.   
   The effect is to move it much closer to being a YA film.   
      
   But you are correct -- it definitely covers the main story.   
      
   >Bonus that I detected nothing extraneous in it that might necessitate a   
   "Speaker for the Dead" movie.  I'm sure the studio was desperate for a series,   
   if not a franchise, but this is its own movie, not an extended trailer for its   
   sequel.   
      
   By having him fly off on his own rather than stay around it makes it   
   hard to see how "Speaker for the Dead" would work. IIRC, it took a   
   long time just to get the /Ender's Game/ movie done.   
      
   >That said, it could be a better movie.  Humanity's military seems to have   
   ideas about building a military genius personality by instilling a sense of   
   isolation.  We see this when Ender realizes that his colonel, in praising him,   
   has made the rest of the    
   class hate him, and are told it again later, as the Colonel tells a Major   
   that  Ender has to be unable to trust that anyone will be on his side.  This   
   could have been a stronger, if uncomfortable, segment to watch, especially   
   with the face they have for    
   Ender, but it is too quickly abandoned, and they quickly form a clique around   
   him with every other recruit in whom we see positive aspects.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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