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Universal Studio's new film in November: Ender's Game
Calamity Jane
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(this is lifted from wikipedia)
Ender's Game is an upcoming American science fiction film based on the novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card. Directed and written by Gavin Hood, the film will star Asa Butterfield as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, an unusually gifted child who is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future alien invasion, leading an ensemble cast that includes Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Aramis Knight, Hailee Steinfeld, Jimmy Pinchak, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin. In November 2010, Card stated that the film's storyline would be a fusion of Ender's Game and its parallel novel, Ender's Shadow, focusing on the important elements of both.[3]
Ender's Game is a movie you should not go out and see, on the strength of it making you someone who empowers an foolish man with money. This isn't an appeal to your nature on the level of say, those anti-Monsanto things you might see on Facebook occasionally. Orson Scott Card is a small enough brand, that is easily enough harmed. You, your friends and loved ones can do the morally correct thing and actively work to hurt the financial success of this film and the idea that it is okay to empower foolish people with money.
THINGS YOU CAN DO TO RUIN THE LEGACY AND FINANCIAL WELL BEING OF KNOWN BIGOT EXTRAORDINAIRE ORSON SCOTT CARD:
1. If for any reason your child comes across the Ender series of books (which really speaks to young adults) do not let them read those books. If they do, explain to them the authoritarian and borderline pedophilia tones that happen in later entries in the series, and the bigoted works Orson Scott Card put out for an older audience, as well as the video game Shadow Complex that is related to that bigoted series.
2. Interrupt or become rude during airings of the trailer of Ender's Game that precede Star Trek: Into Darkness.
3. Do not watch the film with your child. Explain to your child that Orson Scott Card is a terrible bigot, and that his works are wolves in sheeps clothing, preying on the sensibilities of the young.
4. Tell your friends to not watch the movie, or let their children read his books, citing the above information.
5. Tell your family to not watch the movie or read the books, citing the above information.
6. Tell people you do not even know, be it on a social networking platform or message board or the like to follow the above steps to do the morally correct thing in helping this film and book series fail before any further damage to society happens.
7. Repeat the above with coworkers or really, anybody who will listen.
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guess I missed all this
nooooo idea what's goin on
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Also I tried to read the second book and holy fuck how creepy it got with Ender's sister and what the fuck is wrong with you, Card (besides everything).
Still, I do like Ender's Game a whole lot.
It was a book.
The ending was kinda spoiled by the number of pages left in the book, though.
Yessss
it's not bad enough that you're a Hulk player
now you gotta go and be like this
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Also I don't even like Ender's Game that much
Also will this be better or worse than Battlefield Earth?
And this was at an age when I would read near anything
Thought maybe Dracula or Frankenstein was coming back
Like, I heard they were remaking the Monster Squad
let's talk about that instead, fuck Card
I actually thought the second book was better than the first
but I was like 12 when I read it so...
what do you use to separate art from artist
Some form of rudimentary lathe.
centrifuge
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It's a bit of a pity anyway. I liked the concept of Ender's Shadow - redo a story with a different POV character and all - but on top of the author going around more bends than the Gordian knot he simply became a worse writer over time as well. It's like he was doing some bizarre kind of anti-practice on top of simply using the books as a pulpit.
The creepiest part is the introduction, where he talks about how he has received messages from children at gifted and talented schools around the country telling him how much they identify with and idolize Ender.
So thanks, dude, for teaching the nation's brightest young people that genocide is okay as long as your intentions were good.
Bring the atmosphereum to Kro-Bar and Lattis.
Please don't tell me I imagined that myself.
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art does not always reflect the artist's shittiness
kanye is a pathetic manchild
michael jackson was a creepy weirdo
caravaggio was a straight up killer
just because in this case the art is reflective of some awful shit on the end of the artist does not mean it is some kinda universal thing