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The most off-topic WCDT discussion ever
Method of Madness:
I know that WWZ's been turned into a generic zombie movie, but what's the problem with Ender's Game? (I've heard surprisingly little about it)
Akima:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 13 May 2013, 03:35 ---Akima I confess I'm having a hard time following just what you're arguing for.
--- End quote ---
In my last posting?
That treating unique artworks as somehow comparable with commercial products mass-produced for sale is dubious.
That colonialist looting of other people's cultures is bad, even when dressed up by the looters as "legitimate purchase" in a legal context that they force on their victims at gunpoint. That I don't accept Westrim's arguments as offering any justification for it, or for regarding Chinese attitudes as laughable.
That I don't accept that the characters in the story exhibit any sense of desperation as suggested by KOK, or any qualms at all about the appropriateness of their behaviour.
Neko_Ali:
The problem with Ender's Game is Orson Scott Card. And especially all of the bad press he's gotten lately of his deeply misogynistic and homophobic world view and writings. It is not to the best credit of the LGBT community as a whole that lately every time his name shows up people start screaming about it because of his beliefs. See the crap storm that was generated when it was announced DC was having him write for Superman. But on the other side, his beliefs are deeply disgusting to me and others, and he is not shy about promoting them to the detriment of people. I know I enjoyed his books when I was a teenager, before I learned about his beliefs and realized how little he would think of me. It kinda puts a damper on things.
Method of Madness:
Is he involved in making the movie?
Neko_Ali:
I don't know if he's involved in the making of the movie, but he wrote the book. Even if they cut him out entirely of the movie, that's pretty much involved.
Unless it's a Transformers, Starship Troopers or (gods forbid) Battleship movie. Then it really doesn't have anything at all to do with the source material, they just slapped a label on it.
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