So, people on my facebook feed are complaining about how the movie was not true to the book, etc etc. My response is basically "no shit sherlock." I ended up posting a gigantic comment in one of the discussions:
At age 5 Ender brutally murders another five year old. Not because he's starving to death. Not because he's in danger for his life. He does it to win.
Show me a single movie where the opening scene is a five year old brutally murdering another five year old as the first god damn scene. He then goes home and shows Peter the blood on his shoe. He OWNS his violence. As a five year old.
At age six, Ender beats the Giant by being more creatively murderous than any child to have played the game.
At age nine, Ender brutally murders another child by going directly for the brain. He does not attempt to incapacitate Bonzo, he straight up goes for the killing blow as his first action.
At age 11 Ender commits genocide. Now, Bean was fully aware that they were commanding troops. Ender was not. Bean suggests to kill Achilles at age three or four. Bean strands him in a ventilation shaft some time during battle school and casually threatens to kill him a couple more times.
All the events in these books happen to children that are in the same age range as you would see at an elementary school. And they brutally fucking murder each other at every turn.
Yes, Kick Ass portrays child violence. It is also in the comic book genre. They don't kill named characters (except for the occasional villain where the audience justifies it as "different" from other murder). They also make a big deal about how her childhood is robbed of her. Lord of the Flies is fucking dark as shit. You don't give that book to your kids to read. You wait til they are teenagers at least.
The books are very much as dark as lord of the flies. How well did Lord of the Flies do in the box office, and how many things did they whitewash from the books? Did they actually show one child bashing another child's brains out? Because that's what happens in Enders Game. He bashes other childrens brains out with his bare hands.
The ages of the protagonists in Enders Game are not "Young Adults." They are children. Of course they have to white wash things to get it through the censors! It's brutal child murder porn! I'm not joking. Two naked boys (one aged around 12, the other around 9) in a shower trying to cause traumatic brain injury to each other. I'm not joking. Bonzo explicitly spells out that his goal is to cause brain damage. Ender kills him by going directly for the brain to cause a lethal TBI.
The main characters are MURDERERS. That is the actual events that take place in the story. Yes, we have lot of violence in the media. Most of it is not child on child murder.
Show me a single movie where the opening scene is a five year old brutally murdering another five year old as the first god damn scene. He then goes home and shows Peter the blood on his shoe. He OWNS his violence. As a five year old.
At age six, Ender beats the Giant by being more creatively murderous than any child to have played the game.
At age nine, Ender brutally murders another child by going directly for the brain. He does not attempt to incapacitate Bonzo, he straight up goes for the killing blow as his first action.
At age 11 Ender commits genocide. Now, Bean was fully aware that they were commanding troops. Ender was not. Bean suggests to kill Achilles at age three or four. Bean strands him in a ventilation shaft some time during battle school and casually threatens to kill him a couple more times.
All the events in these books happen to children that are in the same age range as you would see at an elementary school. And they brutally fucking murder each other at every turn.
Yes, Kick Ass portrays child violence. It is also in the comic book genre. They don't kill named characters (except for the occasional villain where the audience justifies it as "different" from other murder). They also make a big deal about how her childhood is robbed of her. Lord of the Flies is fucking dark as shit. You don't give that book to your kids to read. You wait til they are teenagers at least.
The books are very much as dark as lord of the flies. How well did Lord of the Flies do in the box office, and how many things did they whitewash from the books? Did they actually show one child bashing another child's brains out? Because that's what happens in Enders Game. He bashes other childrens brains out with his bare hands.
The ages of the protagonists in Enders Game are not "Young Adults." They are children. Of course they have to white wash things to get it through the censors! It's brutal child murder porn! I'm not joking. Two naked boys (one aged around 12, the other around 9) in a shower trying to cause traumatic brain injury to each other. I'm not joking. Bonzo explicitly spells out that his goal is to cause brain damage. Ender kills him by going directly for the brain to cause a lethal TBI.
The main characters are MURDERERS. That is the actual events that take place in the story. Yes, we have lot of violence in the media. Most of it is not child on child murder.
Where am I right, wrong, missing the discussion entirely? I knew an Enders Game movie was in the works for years, but my assumption was that the major problem with actually making it was the above points. What else am I missing?
Also, is it any good?
