The Hunger Games trilogy

[ta kala]

I am starting to be more of a believer in Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss.


http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05...role/?hpt=Sbin

[adpi*violet]

Originally Posted by ta kala

I am starting to be more of a believer in Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss.


http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05...role/?hpt=Sbin

I agree... make-up and hair dye can do wonderful things. I think the cover photo definitely says, "Katniss," so hopefully the actress can do the same in the entire movie.

[Drolefille]

Lenny Kravitz has been cast as Cinna! I can see it

[ms_gwyn]

I can so see Lenny as Cinna....that will be kinda cool

[BraveMaroon]

Has President Snow been cast? I'd love to see Tim Robbins in that role. But maybe that's because I've been harboring a crush on him since Bull Durham...

Lenny should rock the role of Cinna.

[DTD Alum]

This thread has sucked me into those books, read the first two, the first in 48 hours and the second in under 24. I doubt I'll pick up the third because I read there isn't an actual hunger games in it, and to be honest that was the best part of both books by far to me. The first two were fascinating though.

One of those scenarios (like many horror movies) where you're reading it and going "Holy shit I would not last a day." I would have been sprinting right towards that cornucopia and some career would have finished me off.

And frankly, it's good to see a book with a very strong female character that would appeal equally to young (and 20 something, hah) boys and girls. Although I did read that many feel Katniss's character was still manipulated too much in the third book to really come full circle.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by DTD Alum

This thread has sucked me into those books, read the first two, the first in 48 hours and the second in under 24. I doubt I'll pick up the third because I read there isn't an actual hunger games in it, and to be honest that was the best part of both books by far to me. The first two were fascinating though.

One of those scenarios (like many horror movies) where you're reading it and going "Holy shit I would not last a day." I would have been sprinting right towards that cornucopia and some career would have finished me off.

And frankly, it's good to see a book with a very strong female character that would appeal equally to young (and 20 something, hah) boys and girls. Although I did read that many feel Katniss's character was still manipulated too much in the third book to really come full circle.

The third is worth reading though. Katniss has to face that manipulation and everything just as she did in the Hunger Games themselves, but does have agency.

[ASUADPi]

Did anyone else read last weeks Entertainment Weekly? Peeta and Gale on the cover.

[MysticCat]

The trailer for the first movie.

[pomplemousse12]

I love the trailer. I can't wait for it to come out in theaters!
It'd make an excellent sisterhood event haha

[SWTXBelle]

Former professor who is a scenic artist worked on the movie - I'm just happy he got some work! Hope the movie does land office business.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Former professor who is a scenic artist worked on the movie - I'm just happy he got some work! Hope the movie does land office business.

Filming was going in the NC mountains about 3 miles from us this past summer. (Clearly, the first 20 seconds or so of the trailer.) Unfortunately, we never could get close enough to see anything, but still it was fun to know it was going on.

The trailer gives the impression that they might actually be faithful to the book. (Remembering Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Lightning Thief and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 with a shudder.) The only thing that bothered me was the way you hear the announcer say "pan-EM" instead of "PAN-em." Maybe Suzanne Collins meant for it to be "pan-EM" (though given the derivation she gives of the name, that seems unlikely), but it just sound strange to me. I keep thinking Pan Am.

Really looking forward to the movie, now.

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

) The only thing that bothered me was the way you hear the announcer say "pan-EM" instead of "PAN-em." Maybe Suzanne Collins meant for it to be "pan-EM" (though given the derivation she gives of the name, that seems unlikely), but it just sound strange to me. I keep thinking Pan Am.

Really looking forward to the movie, now.

In my mind, when I was reading it, I thought it was pan-EM, because I was not a Latin scholar, I wasn't thinking along those lines and they didn't reveal the Bread and Circuses origin until later in the 3rd book.

I assumed like "mutts" for mutations, they were referring to all-America, or Pan-America which got bastardized and truncated to Panem.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

In my mind, when I was reading it, I thought it was pan-EM, because I was not a Latin scholar, I wasn't thinking along those lines and they didn't reveal the Bread and Circuses origin until later in the 3rd book.

I assumed like "mutts" for mutations, they were referring to all-America, or Pan-America which got bastardized and truncated to Panem.

Huh. Never thought of that, but that would make sense.

I picked up on the panem = bread right off the bat, though I didn't relate it to panem et circensis until the author made that connection in the third book; I just related it to bread and hunger (games).

Speaking of the third book, am I the only one who was really wasn't satisfied with the ending of the third book?

[KSUViolet06]

I loved Harry Potter but hate Twilight so I haven't found any new type of YA lit to read. After people kept talking about these, I picked them up and started the first one today.