The Hunger Games
May. 16th, 2012 12:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
craigoxbrowA very book-y sort of setting, pretty low-key as well as downbeat, a few spectacular visual moments like the arrival but about ordinary people as they deal with a bad situation.
A wildly, seriously moustache-twirlingly evil bad situation. It's made pretty obvious that not only are the Hunger Games barbaric throwbacks, so is the hunger itself and the poverty of the districts. All the complexity comes from the sympathetic characters, step back and they're either working for or at least going along with the Games.
I'm guessing we'll get a more Spartacus plot next. That's certainly what I want to see happening to the Capitol.
Interestingly spare use of music, hardly any at all that wasn't sourced, just a few emotive and I think one action cue.
The only thing we had to Google afterwards was the three-finger hand signal, everything else was explained to non-reading plebeians successfully.
Trailers: The WFRP Version Of Snow White, and The Dictator and What To Expect When You're Expecting which seem less clearly relevant.
And apparently there's a Top Cat movie coming out in two weeks. This I did not know.
A wildly, seriously moustache-twirlingly evil bad situation. It's made pretty obvious that not only are the Hunger Games barbaric throwbacks, so is the hunger itself and the poverty of the districts. All the complexity comes from the sympathetic characters, step back and they're either working for or at least going along with the Games.
I'm guessing we'll get a more Spartacus plot next. That's certainly what I want to see happening to the Capitol.
Interestingly spare use of music, hardly any at all that wasn't sourced, just a few emotive and I think one action cue.
The only thing we had to Google afterwards was the three-finger hand signal, everything else was explained to non-reading plebeians successfully.
Trailers: The WFRP Version Of Snow White, and The Dictator and What To Expect When You're Expecting which seem less clearly relevant.
And apparently there's a Top Cat movie coming out in two weeks. This I did not know.
