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Yeah, I mean, much of the book is an indictment of our society at large and our lust for violence specifically, but it will be incredibly difficult to film it happening without invoking that.
You know what this discussion reminds me of? Talking about Dollhouse, where Joss was trying to (among other things) critique the objectification of women, by... objectifying women.
It's much the same problem.
It's much the same problem.
I wonder how many in the movie audience will realize that they are stand-ins for the Capitol viewers. The conceit that the games were widely televised is both what makes the non-internal monologue portions highly filmable and the film (and especially marketing) potentially awkward in its lack of self-awareness.
Damn, that reminds me of something else, another movie or tv show, and I can't remember which one. Where I had the unsettling and undeniable feeling of being complicit with something truly unpleasant.
Well, what do you know. They're also remaking Suspicion.
I really need to read these books, although I kind of want to go into the movie unburdened.
I was quite surprised at the level of political cutthroatness that showed up in books intended for kids.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact the War Horse was originally a YA novel. About World War I. Not that I disapprove of these weighty subjects in novels for the younger set. Quite the opposite. Still... WWI. Heavy stuff.
Have you read The Book Thief ?
Nay.
You should. YA novel narrated by Death, set in a German town during WWII.
Sean,
I actually think it would probably be a good idea for you to read the book first.
Yup, Suela, that's exactly right. It can't be a metaphor for the thing if it is the thing, and we come down on the wrong side of it.
I was actually thinking it would be interesting to give each viewer an identity with their ticket, kinda the way the Holocaust Museum does it. Like, are you from the Capitol? Are you betting on the games? Or are you from a District, and which one? Do you know someone in the games?