What story inspired her to create the hunger games




















Caan realizes that his spectacle is keeping people complacent, while giving his moneyed overlords exactly what they want. The idea of breaking down a fixed competition from within should ring a bell to anyone who remembers the finish of the games in Catching Fire. And while aspects of Rollerball have dated as well as a sandwich left out in the sun, it has an intelligence and odd beauty that make it worth returning to.

David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone are just two of the competitors in the nation-wide Death Race, in which drivers take souped up death machines across the country in as short a time as possible, killing as many innocent bystanders as they can. Bartel treats the ludicrous premise with the cartoonish comic tone it deserves, creating an unforgettably warped, very 70s approach to bloodsport. Cooper and Ernest B.

Schoedsack ran out of money finishing King Kong , they returned to the sets with a plan to make a movie and raise some scratch in a hurry. The film they made was the first adaptation of The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, the ultimate anti-colonialist narrative.

He quickly discovers that Zaroff only lives in the middle of the ocean because he has a fetish no one in the real world would understand - he likes hunting human beings and has turned his home into a hunting ground. Cooper and Schoedsack tell the tale with elegant simplicity, befitting a film about two cunning professionals who have to kill each other given only the barest essentials, a lesson that the makers of The Hunger Games paid close attention to.

This, as you might imagine, is quite difficult Katniss could relate in a big way to that dilemma. It was only available as a bootleg for years while its myth grew larger by the day.

Fans of the gutsy action film were probably a little miffed when The Hunger Games , a film also about kids killing each other to keep populations small and quiet, was released to enormous box office and general critical approval. These Capitol people even turn the sufferings of others into entertainment. Finally, with the perfect environment created, Collins stepped back because she knew that we would automatically do the rest.

Take this story about suffering for entertainment and turn it into into further entertainment. A movie and a franchise that will earn millions of dollars while people around the world play hunger games every day to survive. The question is would we notice? Like some of her characters would we just keep playing the game as if the rules were unchangeable or like Peeta would we see things for what they were and rebel.

How far would we go to emulate Katniss and the other heroes of the books? How much of the meaning would we acknowledge? Let's hope that this will become something more than people flocking to learn archery and visit North Carolina.

That people will realize that to emulate Katniss it isn't enough to be as strong or as smart as the boys. That to really be like her, you have to fight for people who don't have what you have and refuse to play into an unjust and broken system. The majority of the people who can afford to read the book and see the movie will probably never experience chronic hunger or the life and death choices that Katniss is forced to make.

However, what we don't experience we can at least understand. This is no fantasy story, this is real. Every day people around the world are forced make the choices that Katniss makes. The Hunger Games can even bridge governmental relationships along with personal relationships when readers see protagonist Katniss staging a relationship with Peeta to appease the sponsors of the games. Isabelle Gwak Ms. First of all Dystopian literatures have social class on them Ferrari.

They always have single absolute rulers with the most power. In this essay, we will be talking about how Suzanne Collins and George Orwell have their protagonist respond to repression. In the Hunger Games Suzanne Collins portray Katniss as someone who learns to keep unobtrusive to make her family and her surroundings safe. She is willing to put her life on the line for her sister, people in the audience were very flabbergasted…. The gothic elements in the novel make it an enjoyable read for people of any age, as the elements provide another layer of intricacy.

The dark atmosphere, endangerment of women, and intense emotions in the characters are all gothic elements that lead the reader on a thrilling joyride while reading The Hunger Games.

The premise of watching children kill off other children…. The rich and wealthy capitol and the twelve surrounding districts.



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