So... Ender's Game *OT* (Off-Topic)

by Leviathan , Hotel Zanzibar, Tuesday, November 05, 2013, 07:47 (3815 days ago) @ Quirel

I don't think I'll see it anytime soon. Not saying it couldn't be good. It's just one of those books that worked so amazingly AS a single book that I'm not interested in supplementing that special space in my brain where ithe experiences resides. Same reason I didn't read any of the sequels.

I read Ender's Game in a day, beautifully visualized by John Harris's subtle but colorful art, pumped up on raw memories of high school. I loved it, every second, and I don't want to cloud that personal relationship. I felt similar things when the Watchmen movie or it's non-Alan Moore prequel comics came out.

Mr. Quirel, I have planned out a number of space combat scenes for my comic, Mayflower, and Ender's Game was definitely a seed that led me to depicting them in near-realism (while still making it exciting). I often think of you or Stephen Loftus and hope it would do your wants justice. I don't know why film has never realized how unique, terrifying and exhilarating a vision of real space combat could be. Outside, there's no sound of course, the silence expressing the vast void and bringing solemnity to the actions, but inside, you'd be jumping in to hear the contrast of noise inside the cockpits: comm chatter, lock-on alerts, dialogue, and perhaps the rattle of a damaged ship. All this while you see the movements of the players unfold in three unnervingly equal dimensions. I can perfectly see a view from behind the pilot's shoulder as he pushes forward the joystick and Jupiter and the stars go reeling upwards in the vein of a roller coaster fall. Small ships act as sentient missiles, motherships are nowhere near on top of each other. One's pointing this way, one's pointing that way. It's less about dogfights and more about arcing lights moving purposefully and flexibly, like skaters dancing on ice while they perform calculus... Shit, I'm excited, I need to go make this.