Thinky thoughts about Bunraku and Hunger Games
I’ve just watched the Bunraku trailer - and aside from the movie having a pretty distinct look and style, the trailer makes it seem like a lot of clisheés with not particularly original comic booky dialouges.
Wish I could be more excited...
For those of you who will watch this because of Gackt as “an ardent young Japanese warrior”, I think he looked a lot younger and more ardent in Fūrin Kazan. (Does he even have lines in this movie? Or did I miss it in the trailer?)
This trailer has also made me remember why I think Woody Harrelson - although I like him a lot - wasn’t a good casting choice for Hunger Games in my opinion. He’s been casted as Haymitch Abernathy, who will be the mentor of the protagonists during the deathly games. The thing is I can see him pull of the unfriendly drunkard part that is a big part of the character. Haymitch is also the only boy from District 13 to ever win - read: survive - the Hunger Games - but the thing is: he doesn’t look that part. The character should be someone who doesn’t look like he could have ever pulled of winning the Hunger Games. Lithe, scrawny - like someone who grew up hungry, with little food and even lesser chance at learning to fight. Haymitch was an unlikely winner who used his cunning.
I always imagined an ageing man, painfully thin and not particularly big.
Maybe that’s just me...
Aside from casting Lenny Kravitz as one of my favourite characters and maybe Donald Sutherland as the “bad guy” (could be interesting) I’m pretty underwhelmed with most of the the casting announcements. Although Rue and Prim really look their parts! It’s always problematic to cast book characters, I know.
Click to viewWish I could be more excited...
For those of you who will watch this because of Gackt as “an ardent young Japanese warrior”, I think he looked a lot younger and more ardent in Fūrin Kazan. (Does he even have lines in this movie? Or did I miss it in the trailer?)
This trailer has also made me remember why I think Woody Harrelson - although I like him a lot - wasn’t a good casting choice for Hunger Games in my opinion. He’s been casted as Haymitch Abernathy, who will be the mentor of the protagonists during the deathly games. The thing is I can see him pull of the unfriendly drunkard part that is a big part of the character. Haymitch is also the only boy from District 13 to ever win - read: survive - the Hunger Games - but the thing is: he doesn’t look that part. The character should be someone who doesn’t look like he could have ever pulled of winning the Hunger Games. Lithe, scrawny - like someone who grew up hungry, with little food and even lesser chance at learning to fight. Haymitch was an unlikely winner who used his cunning.
I always imagined an ageing man, painfully thin and not particularly big.
Maybe that’s just me...
Aside from casting Lenny Kravitz as one of my favourite characters and maybe Donald Sutherland as the “bad guy” (could be interesting) I’m pretty underwhelmed with most of the the casting announcements. Although Rue and Prim really look their parts! It’s always problematic to cast book characters, I know.