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« on: November 17, 2013, 11:50:10 pm »
I can understand why some people might oppose it. We actually had a discussion about it once in my Modern American Literature class at DePaul.
The discussion was about how, Despite OSC's SUPER homophobic stance IRL, he did not semm to have a problem with creating what some people believe is a semi-homosexual relationship between characters (Ender and Alai in Enders Game). Despite the fact, that the situations people claim to be sexual seem to stem more from the effects of the world the characters live in (at least, at battle school) than any actual sexual orientation.
However, the counter to this point, was the Ender is so oblivious to anything sexual (due to his age), he even comments that Bonzo's rule about the members of his platoon not being in "skin" around Petra was stupid because it isolated her as different from the boys in the platoon.
Now, while I don't have a problem with them cutting out all of the MASSIVE amounts of nudity that they would have needed to put in (since, in reality, there was only one part of the book involving nudity that actually did anything for the plot, which they did a good job with their version of), I was VERY upset that they pulled the fact that Ender actually killed both Bonzo and Stilson, which was CENTRAL to his character development post-bugger war (when he found out about the deaths during the court-martial hearings). They cut MANY key aspects of Ender's character development which made it seem from the beginning, that he was the "super commander", instead of growing into it as he did in the book.
Again, while I know it's stupid to expect a movie faithful 100% to the book, I was VERY disappointed in how they seemed to use nothing from the book except quotes, character names, and a few situations. It was more like the book "inspired" the screenplay, than we converted into it.