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Now the modern-day news herd has descended on Card himself, as the movie version of Ender's Game, with its production budget of more than $110 million, prepares to reach theaters on November 1. Many left-of-center pundits dismiss Card as a social pariah -- a gay-bashing bigot and possibly even a racist -- simply because he is a Mormon who has had the gall to oppose same-sex marriage. "Card's views are ugly," complained Alexandra Petri in the Washington Post in a column about calls to boycott the movie on account of the author of the novel it's based on. Petri came down on the side of seeing the film -- see it despite the "visible intolerance" of Card, she said -- but others are less certain. Many are doing their best to creep out moviegoers: David Weigel of Slate even compared Card to George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi party. It's as if Ender's Game were the new Triumph of the Will.

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