- Jezebel has a speculative piece about the race of the major characters in The Hunger Games. The conclusions are...mostly inconclusive! Oh well. Hey, why do people say the name Panem is "most likely" derived from "panem et circenses"? It very explicitly comes from that, as explained (dumbly) in Mockingjay. Look alive, bloggers.
- They've also (Jezebel was ALL OVER this movie. Props.) got a comprehensive list of everything the movie omitted from the book. I haven't read it because I want to be surprised in my disappointment, hahaha.
- Kotaku has a gude for how a Hunger Games video game could and should work. It didn't really occur to me that kids killing each other in a video game is problematic, but you know, it is! Whoops.
- i09 mentions a CW-ripoff of the Hunger Games now being fast-tracked, and recommends a few other properties that would make interesting Paranormal Teen Fuck Shows (my favorite Netflix category). Elsewhere at i09, pictures from an abandoned Japanese sex museum. Unrelated, but still cool!
- The article I was most excited about has finally arrived: Mary HK Choi and Natasha Vargas-Cooper discuss the movie in their particular, wonderful way.
- Not to end on a sour note, but Kim posted this god-awful thing in the comments of the last post and I feel compelled to share it here and ruin your day too. Jezebel reports on the trend of horrible teenagers complaining that Thresh and Rue are black. YIKES. Nearly all of these asshole appear to have been run off of Twitter, which is great. GOOD RIDDANCE. And at least one of them has been taken over by a parody account.
Monday, March 26, 2012
May The Hunger Games Articles Be Ever In Your Favor (Huh?)
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I think #11 on the Jezebel list is the only cut scene I really think they should have left in. There were other cuts it would have been nice to keep in, but I was ok with them not. #11 is definitely one of the very few complaints I had with it, though.
Also, I am glad most of those crazy racist people were run off twitter. I know that racists exist, yet I am still continually surprised when people are so open about it. Like, in this day and age, shouldn't they have the decency to at least be a embarrassed by their horrible bigotry?
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