Undermined by fear of another alien invasion, humanity turns to young people to prepare for the approaching war. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a novel and Ender's Game directed by Gavin Hood is the film based – very loosely – on this novel. So how faithful were these producers to the book? Translating a 368 page military sci-fi novel from 30 years ago into a 2 hour film, no matter how good the approach, there are aspects of it that will strike the fan. With the main force of the story focused on Ender's inner voice and several huge subplots, there are a few elements that will definitely not be true to the book at all. One thing that is commendable about the Hood-directed Ender's Game movie is that the majority of the book's critical messages are incorporated, but one exceptionally questionable perspective certainly is not. In the novel, Card creates a plot in which Ender kills two of his peers, both of whom started battles with him. One is Stilson, a tyrant, and the other is Bonzo, an adversary and commander of the Battle School. In the film, Ender sends Stilson to the hospital and Bonzo ends up in a state of extreme lethargy. In the film, the audience simply recognizes what Ender knows, separated from the infrequent additional data given that Ender was not given. In the film, the audience never understands what ultimately happens to Stilson and Bonzo, it remains a cliffhanger ending. In the book, Ender is clueless from the start, but eventually finds out that he killed Stilson and Bonzo. Card ensures that Ender's actions regarding Stilson and Bonzo are directly related to what makes him precisely what the international fleet needs. Ender's strategies with leaving...... middle of paper ...... Queen and releasing "The Hive Queen" make others begin to address the morality of what happened. However, in the film, Graff knows from the start that the Buggers are not attacking and that he is preparing the preemptive massacre of an entire species. This may seem like a subtle distinction, but it's different enough from the original material that it weakens the film. Ender's experience with the Queen is still in the film, but it is rushed and incomplete. In the book, that's the whole point of the story. Although Hood was good at interpreting the most valuable messages, Card had a complex plot that included all aspects of the story. Card gave an incredible display of creating a story. In Hood's defense, knowing that the more complex the plot, the more bored the vast majority of the audience will be, he did an excellent job with the resources at his disposal..