What Simulations were really Simulations?
Near the end of Ender's Game, we learn that the final Simulation and Graduation Test was not a simulation but a real battle in which Ender committed Genocide.
In the books from my understanding all the simulations, not just the final one, were real missions, and this is revealed to Ender after the final simulation.
I am wondering if in the film were any other simulations which were just simulations, if so which ones were and were not simulations?
Best Answer
As far as the audience goes, we know exactly as much as Ender and his crew.
All of the simulations are simulations, except the last one.
One of the clues for this, which should be recognized by the audience but is immediately mentioned by Ender, the aliens don’t attack when they reach the their homeworld. Ender hesitates and must be encouraged to attack.
The way the film proceeds, we as an audience arn’t supposed to know, given the way we’re supposed to be clued in, much like Ender, only the final simulation is supposed to be real.
As far as the books are concerned...
"Of course we tricked you into it. That's the whole point," said Graff. "It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it. It's the bind we were in. We had to have a commander with so much empathy that he would think like the buggers, understand them and anticipate them.
All of the simulations were real.
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What are examples of simulations?
Simulations are used in multiple ways and multiple works of life. Some examples include fire drills, weather forecasting, CGI graphics in entertainment, and simulation used in healthcare to teach skills or prepare for emergencies.What was the first simulation?
The first simulation game may have been created as early as 1947 by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann. This was a straightforward game that simulated a missile being fired at a target.Who came up with the idea of a simulation?
A version of the simulation hypothesis was first theorized as a part of a philosophical argument on the part of Ren\xe9 Descartes, and later by Hans Moravec. The philosopher Nick Bostrom developed an expanded argument examining the probability of our reality being a simulation.How simulation is used in the real world?
A simulation is the re-creation of a real world process in a controlled environment. It involves creating laws and models to represent the world, and then running those models to see what happens. Simulations are used for scientific exploration, for safety tests, and to create graphics for video games and movies.Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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