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In A World
Oct. 20th, 2013 11:26 pmI'm perhaps confused. Yesterday when I went to see Gravity, they said 'o hey see a trailer about another movie in space'. And this Ender's Game trailer contained the phrases 'a new kind of threat' and 'a new kind of hero'. And I was confused.
The threat of an alien invasion of Earth doesn't seem particularly new--V, War of the Worlds... there's a few. And even 'kid being the only person who can be trained to fight aliens' goes out in Last Starfighter and Phantom Menace (wahoo!).
And I don't think they can really say 'well we meant thirty years ago when the book came out'. Am I missing some crucial part of the plot? Or is this another case where I'm listening to the words that the advertisers are saying?
The threat of an alien invasion of Earth doesn't seem particularly new--V, War of the Worlds... there's a few. And even 'kid being the only person who can be trained to fight aliens' goes out in Last Starfighter and Phantom Menace (wahoo!).
And I don't think they can really say 'well we meant thirty years ago when the book came out'. Am I missing some crucial part of the plot? Or is this another case where I'm listening to the words that the advertisers are saying?