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‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’, the second in the dystopian series, releases a new trailer
Writer Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series took the literary world by storm, with many speculating that the success of the novels would soon lead to film adaptations. This speculation came true with the release of The Hunger Games in 2012, the first in the trilogy which saw novelist Collins co-pen the screenplay as well. […] More
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More Equal Than Others: Six Films of 2012 Done Better
For better or worse, films don’t exist in a vacuum. If literature derives from itself, and, according to Marshall McLuhan, the content in any new medium is always the same as in the old, then films don’t exactly have a wealth of opportunities to be original. You can always compare a film to one that […] More
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‘The Hunger Games’ is a fine, gripping dystopian effort that overcomes its influences
The Hunger Games Written for the screen by Suzanne Collins, Gary Ross and Billy Ray Directed by Gary Ross USA, 2012 In the dystopian, totalitarian nation of Panem, a wealthy capital city rules over an impoverished nation of districts. As penance for a previous rebellion, every year sees each district forced to enter two adolescents […] More
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Essential Viewing For Fans Of ‘The Hunger Games’ (Part 1)
Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series has often been compared with Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels primarily because both centre on a young female protagonist and somehow both became phenomenons for their shared young-adult demo. Personally, I think this is both an insult to the novel and the latest big screen adaptation, since The Hunger Games is […] More
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‘The Hunger Games’ a highly ambitious, grounded, intelligent, emotionally gratifying blockbuster
The Hunger Games Directed by Gary Ross Screenplay by Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray 2012, USA In a dystopian future, the Capitol of the nation of Panem randomly selects twenty-four of the country’s youngest inhabitants to fight to the death in a yearly event titled The Hunger Games. The film’s tagline – “The […] More