down is the enemy's gate
Jan. 15th, 2013 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaydeefalls
I missed this completely: they're actually making a movie of Ender's Game.
Looks like an interesting cast. I can't blame them for aging all the kids up -- hard to film such a brutal movie with a cast of six-year-olds. I really like that they've genderbent Sgt. Anderson -- the novel is SO FUCKING MALE (with the notable exceptions of Petra, queen of my heart, and Valentine). And casting Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham is fucking perfect. Harrison Ford works for me as Graff. The kids all look good so far -- I'm glad they maintained the ethnic mix of the book. And it's coming out next fall? Cool beans.
I have a complicated relationship with the books these days -- I LOVED Ender's Game when I was in high school, though the rest of Ender's arc didn't really grab me, and I quite liked the spinoff series about Bean (as a teenager/college student, the geopolitical scene back on Earth was vastly more interesting to me than Ender's philosophic alien worlds; I haven't reread them in years, though, and the later Ender books might appeal more to me now). And, of course, now that I know more about Orson Scott Card's appalling social views, it's hard for me to separate author from work -- you can definitely see the influence of his personal beliefs seeded throughout the novels, particularly the later ones. But Ender's Game is still a cracking good story, one of the formative texts of my teen years, and I'll be interested to see how the film handles it. And if it's a shitshow, I've got enough distance from the books now that it won't bother me so much.
Looks like an interesting cast. I can't blame them for aging all the kids up -- hard to film such a brutal movie with a cast of six-year-olds. I really like that they've genderbent Sgt. Anderson -- the novel is SO FUCKING MALE (with the notable exceptions of Petra, queen of my heart, and Valentine). And casting Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham is fucking perfect. Harrison Ford works for me as Graff. The kids all look good so far -- I'm glad they maintained the ethnic mix of the book. And it's coming out next fall? Cool beans.
I have a complicated relationship with the books these days -- I LOVED Ender's Game when I was in high school, though the rest of Ender's arc didn't really grab me, and I quite liked the spinoff series about Bean (as a teenager/college student, the geopolitical scene back on Earth was vastly more interesting to me than Ender's philosophic alien worlds; I haven't reread them in years, though, and the later Ender books might appeal more to me now). And, of course, now that I know more about Orson Scott Card's appalling social views, it's hard for me to separate author from work -- you can definitely see the influence of his personal beliefs seeded throughout the novels, particularly the later ones. But Ender's Game is still a cracking good story, one of the formative texts of my teen years, and I'll be interested to see how the film handles it. And if it's a shitshow, I've got enough distance from the books now that it won't bother me so much.
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Date: 2013-01-22 06:36 pm (UTC)