Die Tribute von Panem - Catching Fire (2. Edit. Storyline. Twelve months after winning the 7. Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and her partner Peeta Mellark must go on what is known as the Victor's Tour, wherein they visit all the districts, but before leaving, Katniss is visited by President Snow who fears that Katniss defied him a year ago during the games when she chose to die with Peeta. With both Katniss and Peeta declared the winners, it is fueling a possible uprising. He tells Katniss that while on tour she better try to make sure that she puts out the flames or else everyone she cares about will be in danger. Written by. rcs. 04. Plot Summary|Plot Synopsis. Taglines. Remember who the enemy is. See more ». Edit. Details. Release Date: 2. November 2. 01. 3 (Germany). Also Known As: Die Tribute von Panem - Catching Fire. See more ». Box Office. Budget: $1. 30,0. Opening Weekend: $1. November 2. 01. 3)Gross: $4. USA)(2. 8 March 2. See more ». Company Credits. Technical Specs. Runtime: 1. Aspect Ratio: 2. 3. See full technical specs ». The Hunger Games is a 2012 American dystopian science fiction adventure film directed by Gary Ross and based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. The Political Message of The Hunger Games. This article contains spoilers for The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The Mockingjay, symbol for rebellion. Lionsgate is exploring developing 'Hunger Games' prequels. My thoughts are mixed & complicated (read: long!!!)… I’d awoken to the “prequels. Praise for The Hunger Games series #1 USA Today Bestseller #1 New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller #1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller. The Political Message of The Hunger Games. This article contains spoilers for The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The Mockingjay, symbol for rebellion. Unless you were kept out of any news on cinema, literature and the latest cultural releases, you must have heard of The Hunger Games. Even if you don’t know anything about it, the name rings a bell for sure in a far corner of your mind. Family Values In The Hunger GamesWith 4. 3 million copies sold in 2. The Hunger Games might be just a passing phenomenon doomed to fade away. It probably will be. В replaced by the next series of adolescent dystopian books revolving around a triangular love affair and portraying the story of a ‘one of a kind’ teenage girl who will have to save her people. Yet The Hunger Games has something more, something explicitly outlined throughout the books that was probably Collins’s main reason to write them – a political message. Suzanne Collins’ Book. The Hunger Games is far more political than any teenage drama written in the 2. Katniss. Everdeen is not just saving her folks but she must free a whole nation from tyrannical oppression and poverty. For those who don’t know the plot, it is set in a near future where countries have been destroyed and replaced by 1. Districts under the control of the Capitol. To strengthen its tight control over the districts, the Capitol organises games each year where 2. The winner, after killing all the others to survive, has to deal with the pain, the nightmares and the Capitol’s control. Forced to appear on camera constantly, physically changed and shaped for entertainment, the tributes remain all their lives tied to the Capitol and its murderous president. Katniss is one of the tributes. She volunteers for her sister and takes her place in the arena. Since that first step, she starts embodying rebellion. Many have read between the lines (though the message is pretty obvious and explicitly crafted) and interpreted this message in different ways, depending on which political side they stand for or how the issue relates to them personally. Even actors themselves do not always agree on what this message is. But all in all, Collins warns against the destructive force of humans, the unjust social hierarchy and the danger of abusive powers. By Broken Headphones 'The Hunger Games' is a rare book-turned-movie that's able to live up to the gigantic hype of. Die Tribute von Panem – The Hunger Games (Originaltitel: The Hunger Games) ist ein US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Film, der auf dem Buch Die Tribute von Panem. To see how LAQUEETA got the KFC chicken go here: http:// CONTACT ME!: FACEBOOK: http:// TWITTER: http. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark become targets of the Capitol after their victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a rebellion in the Districts of Panem. Not very modern, true. Issues that have always concerned intellectuals, politicians and artists. Yet her handling of the story is innovative. She creates an imaginary futuristic city, Panem, while at the same time tracing back its historical roots, drawing an interesting parallel with Romans and their arena games, linking past and future and showing how humanity always had, and still has, this violent impulse, this thirst for destruction. She gets inspiration from 1. Metropolis and A clockwork’s Orange while modernising them at the same time. Like these classics, she pushes the boundaries of violence to the extreme. But unlike them, she addresses it specifically to adolescents and. В has. В political violence penetrate their literature. A book for teenagers and where teenagers die, so young people. В can understand the dangers of extremist power and imagine what a world like this would be like. And do everything to prevent it from happening. Of course, the book is 9. Earth and not to make it an uninhabitable place. Avoid Panem and the Capitol at all cost. I. The Political Message. President Snow, at the head of the Capitol. The political commentary. В of The Hunger Games. В is made even more accessible to us. В as it links future, past and present in one big bowl. It is open to contextualisation. The world of The Hunger Games is much more like ours than any other young- adult literary sensational books or films, like Harry Potter or Twilight. In those, you always had a touch of surreal, of magic and of fantasy. In The Hunger Games, while some elements are a little fantastical, they are all developed through technology and can find believable explanations that can make them potentially real. The conception of the arena and its dangers, the weapons, the different machines…all are very futuristic but not too unreal. Thus we can see a direct relationship with the real world, which makes the story even scarier and the criticism fiercer. Democracy needs to eradicate tyranny and take over: this is a very easy and very simplistic interpretation of the plot, definitely lacking in reflection and failing. В to consider all aspects of the work. Democracy is never presented in the book as a model to follow. Collins goes beyond the simplistic and is not afraid to show the limits of that thinking. She addresses today’s people, those in power right now and the present population. In fact, she addresses the readers directly when she completely discredits our democratic system. Look at this dialogue for instance: “Everyone,” Plutarch tells him. We’re going to form a republic where the people of each district and the Capitol can elect their own representatives to be their voice in a centralized government. Don’t look so suspicious; it’s worked before.”“In books,” Haymitch mutters.“In history books,” says Plutarch. And if our ancestors could do it, then we can, too.”Frankly, our ancestors don’t seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars and the broken planet. Clearly, they didn’t care about what would happen to the people who came after them. But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government. Katniss surrounded by Stormtroopers. The ancestors are actually us, and as Collins says, we don’t have much to brag about between the wars going on right now, the remaining social inequalities and the environmental crisis. Here, she shows the future repercussions of our present actions and asks the reader to reconsider his own actions and help prevent the extinction of our planet. Through the fact that they don’t even trust the republic system to be efficient, Collins points out the limits of our political thinking and of the measures taken so far. That said, she doesn’t completely dismiss the idea either, but registers it only as an ‘improvement’ over tyrannical power and dictatorship. Even the rebellion doesn’t inspire trust and Katniss is very aware of their own manipulations. Their leader, Coin, seems too much like the Capitol’s president, Snow. If rebellion is also limited, then what is the solution? Collins doesn’t give one as every system has its flaws. She doesn’t tie her work to any political camp or alliance. As Robert Thompson, a professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University states: ‘The Hunger Games’ has this feeling of being contemporary and political but without being really clear what its politics are”. So the author doesn’t give much of a political solution, yet she encourages the human side to take over. To be and to think more like a human to protect those you love and share among a community. Not much to build a new political system in Panem, true, and the trilogy doesn’t really finish on a happy ending note where the new president is actually the best leader the districts ever had and everyone lives happily ever after. Collins doesn’t give a political solution because it is impossible to create the perfect system. It is an utopia. Her message is more plausible and, even if it will take a lot of time and work, achievable because it concentrates on a global human effort. We need to deal with our flaws one by one, on the political, social and environmental sides. Some actors in the film have expressed their own political understanding of the book. Donald Sutherland (President Snow) believes in its power to change our politics today and sees in the films the same potential as The Battle of Algiers, a film about the organisation of a rebellious movement during the Algerian War in 1. Hopefully they will see this film and the next film and the next film and then maybe organize,” Sutherland said. Stand up. They might create a third party. They might change the electoral process, they might be able to take over the government, change the tax system.”Jeffrey Rights, who plays Betee in the films, is more neutral and praises the series’ openness to interpretations. It’s welcoming of the entire political spectrum,” he told the website Hypable. Some people look at these stories and take a 1% versus the 9. I think others look at this and they view it from a more right- leaning perspective as a condemnation of government. Others may look at is as a validation of a need for strong allegiance to the 2nd Amendment. So it’s non- discriminatory, it’s nonpartisan.”Peeta and Katniss saluting District 1. Hunger Games. President Snow’s political structure is all based on supreme authority, government overreach and sadistic entertainment to satisfy the Capitol’s and his own thirst for violence. Control is the key word, whether it is through the repression of any rebellious movement (even peaceful protests) by the state police, the Stormtroopers, or through constant TV recording. His tight control of everything that happens in Panem gives him exclusive authority and security. He made himself the strongest and forced people to bow to his games and enjoy his form of entertainment. Thus he embodies all the tyrants and dictators that have lived in their most extreme brutality. Yet he also stands for more. He believes that ‘even the strongest cannot overcome the Capitol’ and warns Katniss against the rebellion’s intentions. Is this just blind faith in his own authority and the strength of his political system, or is he suggesting that whether he lives or dies, nothing will change? That someone as thirsty for power and abusive will replace him, and that the whole system is inescapable? Probably a bit of both. War is on everyone’s lips, especially in the third book where a civil war takes place, a rebellion from the people against the Capitol’s tyrannical authority. Collins said herself : “I don’t write about adolescence. I write about war.
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