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10 Speculative Questions About The Upcoming Ender’s Game Movie

Speculating about movies is kind of stupid. I find it more than just boring and relatively useless, but often it affects expectations so profoundly that the movie in question is no longer able to be taken in on its own terms, but on the terms of its marketing efforts as well as the breadth of anticipatory opinion and hope displayed throughout the internets. It’s not something I find productive, although I see the appeal of generating momentum in viewers’ hearts and minds toward the release of a project tons of people have worked really hard on. I do think, though, that the months, sometimes years of buildup to big movie events leads to the “best movie ever!” or “worst movie ever!” reactions that are more prominent and voiceable today. Big movies either live up to insane hype or disappoint high hopes.

[h2]4) What’s with the name ‘Ender,’ seriously?[/h2]

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I quibble. I’ve limited the amount I’ve learned about the character of Andrew “Ender” Wiggin to know that Ender is placed in quotation marks between his surname and forename, indicating perhaps a nickname or adopted name as a result of exploits during some period of his young life.

Is it because he ends people?? I don’t care. It makes for a snappy title, which is almost a touch offputting, in the same way the Britney Spears song “Lucky” is undercut by the insistence that it’s about some character whose name is Lucky.

But tackiness aside, let’s hope that people aren’t sick of games just yet, whether they’re about hunger or enders or thrones or weird conspiracies surrounding Michael Douglas.

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