The Politics of the Hunger Games

[sunoftheskye]

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[layweed]

Idg why people have to embrace films because of liberal or conservative themes. Whatever happened to embracing films because they're good films?

[angelus7988]

From my limited perspective, it's something that I see more often from conservatives. My hypothesis is that some conservatives, like some evangelicals, share the need for all aspects of their life to relate to their touchstone, be that Christianity or conservatism.

[amyura]

I think you're right. When's the last time we saw anyone on the left making a top-however-many list of liberal songs or movies or awesome stars? The assumption on the right, of course, is that just about everyone in the music and film industries are far-left, but I don't really think that's the case. I think they're like evangelical Christians, who are a sizable subset of the majority religion in this country, yet act like they're a persecuted minority and everyone's out to get them and it's SO HARD to be them.

[erunamiryene]

Please tell me there is at least one other person who is not HOLY SHIT THESE BOOKS ARE THE BEST FUCKING THING EVER IN THE WHOLE OF EXISTENCE. I just can't get into them, which ... apparently means I'm a terrible human being, or something.

also, wow, this article's really black and white.

Occupy-Wall-Street liberals are loving the way the film portrays an extraordinary gap between the rich and poor as simply an innate evil. It's a black-and-white view in which there’s no allowance that the rich might have earned their wealth -- they're portrayed simply as lazy and overly indulged oppressors.

Which is absolutely what every single OWS-er thinks of every single wealthy person. /eyeroll

[riath]

I have yet to read them. I requested the first one from my local library but they've all been taken out. Quite honestly I didn't know what these books were till a few days ago.

[erunamiryene]

Haha, NGL I love the Southern Vampire Mysteries, but they're totally fluff reads. (And Sookie can get really annoying.)

I just keep thinking of Stephen King's "The Running Man". /shrug

[childish]

Yeah, that's pretty much the only similarity. Hunger Games, in my opinion, is far superior to BR and the games are just the surface of it. The last book doesn't even have them.

[playedinloops]

I keep forgetting how badly I need to get my hands on some dance moms user pics.

[imnotasquirrel]

I feel like I didn't get my fill of complaining about the casting in the HG post over at the mothership, because I came in late to that one.... so I'd just like to reiterate here that the casting for this movie can fuck off.

[brucelynn]

I was kinda nasty to people in that post *yikes* but I feel like people are just indirectly telling people to "just deal with it"

This casting is going to give hollywood more ammo , I would not be surprised if next week we got a confirmation on the Akira cast being all caucasian and people will say "but we all accepted the Hunger Games casting"

[ferlingmule]

I'm going to go find that post... I don't know anything about the actors, but they looked too old for me (GALE) and some didn't even look like they knew how to run (KATNISS). The Career Tributes, though, looked decent. //judges

[sleeky]

Jennifer actually said in an interview she had to retrain herself to run even like she did, apparently she was pigeon toed.

[mzflux]

Yup.

[amyura]

This.

[roguebelle]

It may not be technically in the film, but it's pretty explicit in the book, IIRC.