Like a little girl mimicking her mother at the vanity table, the movie adaptation of Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, resembled its predecessor but paid minimal homage to the beloved novel, despite its fancy dresses woven with exquisite graphics and its faint perfumes of action and intensity. By focusing on the general events at Battle School and Command School, the film left out the specific details of Ender’s training experience. Although the movie included essential scenes from the book, it also compressed the novel’s eventful plot by taking out major pieces of the storyline. The film deprived its audience the opportunity of witnessing the Wiggin siblings grow up, but it adequately portrayed minor characters. Gavin Hood, the director,
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At the end of the novel, Ender experienced the galactic battles from the perspective of the bugger queen, which prompted Ender into empathizing with the species he murdered, deciding to write a book that taught humanity about the buggers, and resolving to find a home for the larval queen. Instead of Ender receiving the bugger’s memories, he met a living Formic queen in a quick cinematic encounter that took away the emotional value of the protagonist’s moral doubt. Using pseudonyms, Valentine and Peter Wiggin staged debates that captured the world’s attention and shaped its thoughts, which allowed Peter to rise to power after the final invasion in the novel. Solely focusing on Ender’s training experience pushed Valentine’s and Peter’s manipulative activities out of the movie spotlight and ultimately disposed of the fascinating Demosthenes and Locke side plot. Although the movie adaptation excluded crucial sections of the storyline, it included Ender’s fights with Stilson and Bonzo. In both the book and film adaptation, Ender decided to repetitively hit his bullies to win all future battles, a decision that proved Ender’s ability to command to Colonel Graff. After both struggles with his bullies, Ender questioned his humanity, not wanting to grow callous like his older brother. Regardless of the several similarities between the plots of the book and the film, the movie still failed to capture its characters full
At the end of the novel, Ender experienced the galactic battles from the perspective of the bugger queen, which prompted Ender into empathizing with the species he murdered, deciding to write a book that taught humanity about the buggers, and resolving to find a home for the larval queen. Instead of Ender receiving the bugger’s memories, he met a living Formic queen in a quick cinematic encounter that took away the emotional value of the protagonist’s moral doubt. Using pseudonyms, Valentine and Peter Wiggin staged debates that captured the world’s attention and shaped its thoughts, which allowed Peter to rise to power after the final invasion in the novel. Solely focusing on Ender’s training experience pushed Valentine’s and Peter’s manipulative activities out of the movie spotlight and ultimately disposed of the fascinating Demosthenes and Locke side plot. Although the movie adaptation excluded crucial sections of the storyline, it included Ender’s fights with Stilson and Bonzo. In both the book and film adaptation, Ender decided to repetitively hit his bullies to win all future battles, a decision that proved Ender’s ability to command to Colonel Graff. After both struggles with his bullies, Ender questioned his humanity, not wanting to grow callous like his older brother. Regardless of the several similarities between the plots of the book and the film, the movie still failed to capture its characters full