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Art alert! The dumpster camera's lens cover didn't open all the way! Ha! It works.[/caption]
The sequel to the 2012 film, The Hunger Games is coming. Hunger Games: Catching Fire is scheduled for release next month. At least one person can't wait. I found this "Hunger Games" poster in a container bin last night on my way to bed. Attached to the bottom right-hand corner of the poster is a facsimile of the mockingjay pin worn by the lead character Katniss Everdeen.
The movies are adaptations of the first two novels of a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins, aimed at teenage readers. I enjoyed the first movie -- the novels, not so much; I personally felt they were marginally better written than a Dan Brown novel -- that's like Da Vinci Code for "badly written." Fortunately for Ms. Collins, I'm in a minority. I will watch the movies though. I thought the screenwriters of The Hunger Games film actually improved on the novel. I liked the casting of the film, particularly Woody Harrelson as Kaleb, though, after reading the novel, I thought Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen was just a tad too well fed.
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Japanese junior high school student cutting class in the film Battle Royale from 2000.[/caption]
The "Hunger Games" of the title are an annual competition to the death, involving teenage male and female contestants chosen from each of the 12 districts of the state of Panem, a future North American dictatorship. The basic premise of the deadly competition mirrors an earlier Japanese bestselling novel called Battle Royale, published in 1999, and then adapted as a film in 2000. Battle Royale has junior high school students forced to fight each other to the death in a program run by an authoritarian Japanese government of the future. I haven't read the novel, but I really enjoyed the film. The entire cast seemed to be going all out -- totally immersed in the characters, and the grim story; I recommend it. The Hunger Games is nice, and fluffy by comparison, but I'm still looking forward to the sequel. Click the images to enlarge them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0p1t-dC7Ko
Art alert! The dumpster camera's lens cover didn't open all the way! Ha! It works.[/caption]The sequel to the 2012 film, The Hunger Games is coming. Hunger Games: Catching Fire is scheduled for release next month. At least one person can't wait. I found this "Hunger Games" poster in a container bin last night on my way to bed. Attached to the bottom right-hand corner of the poster is a facsimile of the mockingjay pin worn by the lead character Katniss Everdeen.
The movies are adaptations of the first two novels of a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins, aimed at teenage readers. I enjoyed the first movie -- the novels, not so much; I personally felt they were marginally better written than a Dan Brown novel -- that's like Da Vinci Code for "badly written." Fortunately for Ms. Collins, I'm in a minority. I will watch the movies though. I thought the screenwriters of The Hunger Games film actually improved on the novel. I liked the casting of the film, particularly Woody Harrelson as Kaleb, though, after reading the novel, I thought Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen was just a tad too well fed.
Meanwhile in Japan...
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Japanese junior high school student cutting class in the film Battle Royale from 2000.[/caption]The "Hunger Games" of the title are an annual competition to the death, involving teenage male and female contestants chosen from each of the 12 districts of the state of Panem, a future North American dictatorship. The basic premise of the deadly competition mirrors an earlier Japanese bestselling novel called Battle Royale, published in 1999, and then adapted as a film in 2000. Battle Royale has junior high school students forced to fight each other to the death in a program run by an authoritarian Japanese government of the future. I haven't read the novel, but I really enjoyed the film. The entire cast seemed to be going all out -- totally immersed in the characters, and the grim story; I recommend it. The Hunger Games is nice, and fluffy by comparison, but I'm still looking forward to the sequel. Click the images to enlarge them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0p1t-dC7Ko
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