Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Undermined by dread of another extra-terrestrial invasion, humanity turns to the youngsters to get ready for the approaching war. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a novel and Ender's Game directed by Gavin Hood is the motion picture based – very loosely - on that novel. So how true to the book were these producers? Translating a 368 page military science fiction novel from 30 years back into a 2 hour film regardless of how well approached will have a few aspects of it hit the fan. With the principle force of the story being fixated on Ender's inward voice and several enormous subplots, a few components are sure to be not true to the book whatsoever.
One thing that is commendable about the movie Ender's Game directed by Hood is that the majority of the critical messages from the book are incorporated, yet an exceptionally questionable perspective is definitely not. In the novel, Card makes a plotline where Ender kills two of his peers, both of which began battles with him. One is Stilson, a bully, and the other is Bonzo, a Battle School opponent and commander. In the film, Ender sends Stilson to the hospital and Bonzo is left in a state of extreme lethargy. In the movie, the audience just recognizes what Ender knows, separated from the infrequent additional data given that Ender hasn't been given. In the movie, the audience never figures out what happens to Stilson and Bonzo at last, its left as a loose end. In the book, Ender hasn't the faintest idea from the start, but does eventually discover that he has killed both Stilson and Bonzo.
Card makes sure that Ender's actions concerning Stilson and Bonzo are directly relatable to what makes him precisely what the International Fleet needs. Ender's strategizes with the go...

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...queen and published "The Hive Queen" do others start to address the morality of what happened. Yet in the movie, Graff knows all along that the Buggers aren't attacking and that he's building the pre-emptive slaughter of a whole species.
It may appear as a subtle distinction, however it’s enough of a difference from the original material that it weakens the movie. Ender's experience with the queen is still in the movie, however it’s rushed and not complete. In the book, it’s the entire purpose of the story.
Though Hood was great at interpreting what messages were most valuable, Card had a complex plotline including all aspects of the story. Card made an incredible showing of making a story. In Hood’s defense, taking into account that the more complex the plot, the more bored the vast majority of the audience becomes, he did a great job with the resources given.