<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Michael Hirsch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mdhirsch@gmail.com" target="_blank">mdhirsch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">If you like Clarke’s style (including getting to the emotion of his characters) you’d probably enjoy Orson Scott Card’s stuff as well. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Oddly enough Clarke wrote the book “2001: A Space Odyssey “ AFTER the movie.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">It boggles my mind that after all these years they’ve made a movie of Card’s “Ender’s Game”. I’ve not seen it because I fear it will be disappointing like
many SciFi movies purported to be based on books of the same title. (I still gnash my teeth whenever Starship Troopers is being shown.)<u></u><u></u></span></p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"></span></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Go ahead and see the movie. Unlike Starship Troopers it is quite true to the book. And unlike Dune, they didn't try to get everything into the book. The whole Locke/Demosthenese subplot is excluded, and the book is much more about action than it is about the growth of Ender as a leader, but I still liked it and wasn't offended by it varying from the book.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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</div><div>I agree. It was well done if a bit thin on some non-critical areas but it made for a good movie. Probably would have been 4 hours if they they had added all the relationship stuff they cut out. I was worried when the previews were hawking the big names in it as they were all adults. They actually played (correctly) mostly minor roles.<br>
<br></div><div>Starship Troopers has likely blocked any more Heinlein from hitting the big screen. I almost walked out of the theater. I saw an article after that pile of trash came out that the kids were furious over the production.<br>
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