I almost didn't read a EW article on the movie because it was so Next Hunger Games, but the pictures did really look fun.
Mal: You were dead! Tracy: Hunh? Oh. Right. Suppose I was. Hey there, Zoe.
'The Message'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
§ ita § - Jul 15, 2013 11:27:40 am PDT #21067 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
le nubian - Jul 15, 2013 11:59:25 am PDT #21068 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Thing is, plot-wise it isn't really much like Hunger Games.
§ ita § - Jul 15, 2013 12:03:25 pm PDT #21069 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
plot-wise it isn't really much like Hunger Games
I don't think most of the Next Hunger Games are, so I'm not sure why they hit that angle in sympathetic messaging. I'm sufficiently not stupid that I can make an actual call. Please to treat me that way. I just stopped and thought if any of the NHG had been all that Hunger Gamey in a way I thought derivative or boring, remembered no, and then cracked the dumb magazine.
I guess whoever she is would love to be the next Jennifer Lawrence, but that's about it.
Polter-Cow - Jul 15, 2013 12:15:44 pm PDT #21070 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, Shailene Woodley does have an Oscar nomination of her own, so she's on track.
le nubian - Jul 15, 2013 12:19:52 pm PDT #21071 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Maybe they are hoping this movie will make a lot of $$ like HG did and that's why they are marketing it similarly? Weird shit.
Polter-Cow - Jul 15, 2013 12:31:17 pm PDT #21072 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
YA dystopia is YA dystopia. You think marketing won't seize on a superficial similarity and push it like hell?
§ ita § - Jul 15, 2013 12:39:13 pm PDT #21073 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
YA dystopia is YA dystopia
Well, except when it's not. Are you saying it's warranted?
Shailene Woodley does have an Oscar nomination of her own, so she's on track.
Until I see the Most Gorgeous Doof Next Door gifs she's just one more chick that didn't win.
Polter-Cow - Jul 15, 2013 2:21:28 pm PDT #21074 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, except when it's not. Are you saying it's warranted?
I am saying I don't find it strange in the least.
§ ita § - Jul 15, 2013 2:42:08 pm PDT #21075 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wait--so all YA dystopias *are* the same, or they might as well be the same? That's what I don't understand. If you keep selling A as B, you do risk a backlash.
Amy - Jul 15, 2013 2:46:19 pm PDT #21076 of 28370
Because books.
The target marget (i.e. teens) doesn't seem to care about the finer distinctions at this point.