Although the original Ender Viking is also a child, he is better than adults in all aspects. He is not only quick to respond, but behind each of his quick reactions is thoughtful and sufficient moral reflection; he does not rely only on "ability" Earn commander status, and he is able to earn the loyal following of others by virtue of his admirable qualities - not following a smart kid who plays a good game, but knowing that no one is going to give your life to you More trustworthy than this person in terms of ability and humanity. He didn't even need to ask the sergeant if anyone else would follow him. His only concern was whether he could defeat the Zerg.
And the communication between him and the Zerg is far more than those two scenes. The relationship between Ender and his brother and sister is also more complicated. He does not want to defeat Peter, he hopes that his brother likes him, and his heart desires It is love, and victory is just the mission he has to pursue. The Zerg understands this, and her desire to communicate with him is far stronger than in the movie.
There's a lot more than that, but this movie cuts the depth of every single scene from the original in all the vectors in all directions, leaving only some pretty visuals and nice but misplaced lines.
So the smart kid beats others, the smart kid wins the game, the smart kid breaks down and yells, the smart kid suddenly comes under moral pressure and starts to repent, the smart kid becomes the admiral of the fleet and starts to atone for his sins.
If you use boxing as an analogy, in this whole set of boxing in the movie, each original move contains 50 years of internal strength, five minutes of accumulation, and it will be shot in five seconds in the movie. Needless to say, the internal strength is far away. Not in place, not even rubbing out the tricks, only exaggerated empty shelves, and the inner strength that can penetrate the rock is the real essence of Master Card's original work, but all of it was made into a slap in the face by this film.
And at several key points, the movie even completely went to the opposite side of the novel. For example, the first element that Ender is greatly superior to other commanders is that he fully authorizes his team leaders to let them fully utilize their own emergency response. Ability, so that the overall combat mode of the Feilong team has reached the realm of "invisible and invincible" as Sun Tzu said. In the original, his frustration in combat was not because he interfered too much with his teammates, but because he trusted his teammates too much, gave them too heavy tasks, and they failed to keep up with Ender's needs under the condition of lack of sleep.
The movie actually has to wait until Ender has entered the actual combat, and then let Ender make the most basic mistake of a low-end commander, and then let Graff teach Ender the tactical ideas that Ender pioneered in the original work. If Ender was at that level, Graff wouldn't have picked him at all.
In fact, after the so-called "simulated battlefield", all the adults have no command art to teach Ender. All they can do is to vent their pressure on Ender, making him feel that something is wrong. , the pressure is greater, the burden is heavier.
But even in this situation, he still won the victory, not by being smart, but by the experience gained in long-term fighting with the Zerg to the death, and by the deepest insight into human nature and Zerg thinking mode, in the decisive battle, he made a decision that he would never do in peacetime. The decision that may be made, reverses the desperate situation.
All of these key points, the movie doesn't get it right. Only the plane is left.
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