How far are you along the series? The answer is potentially spoilerrific.
How far are you along the series? The answer is potentially spoilerrific.
Also, Katniss wasn’t deliberately punishing Gale. She knew it wasn’t truly his fault. It’s just that she couldn’t look at him without thinking of the bomb he’d invented that had done… you know what.
Perhaps you should read the entire series more carefully. If you had already, you clearly would not find it acceptable to simplify the characters to that level.
He was not first. Katniss liked him as a friend.
Why on Earth should it mean that? I do not understand this at all. And young children should not be reading books like the Hunger Games; it is clearly thematically for an older audience (I would imagine pre-teen at the earliest, in general).
So? Women are not obligated to fall in love with people who meet all of those characteristics (“good-looking?” Really?), nor are women required to fall in love with the first person who does fit all of those.
It is her story. She can do whatever she wants. Any author “connives and concocts the story” by your definition. It is not as if she is altering some natural event. The entire book is a construct.
God forbid! We must alert the Church elders!
Then you won’t want to see the sequels. It gets much worse.
There will be three sequels.
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The King’s Speech and The Artist are hardly trashy or morally offensive.
The King’s Speech and The Artist are hardly trashy or morally offensive.
( Broderick Crawford won? :bigyikes: )I found it interesting that Cagney, who had something of a career playing tough guys won his Oscar for Yankee Doodle Dandy.Two days ago, TCM channel showed Jimmy Cagney’s White Heat . “I made it, ma. I’m on top of the world.”
Jimmy Cagney was snubbed for an Oscar nomination that year although 1949 wasn’t exactly a vintage year for great movies. ( Were there any?
Picture:
"ALL THE KING’S MEN", “Battleground”, “The Heiress”, “A Letter to Three Wives”, “Twelve O’Clock High”
Actor:
BRODERICK CRAWFORD in "All the King’s Men", Kirk Douglas in “Champion”, Gregory Peck in “Twelve O’Clock High”, Richard Todd in “The Hasty Heart”, John Wayne in “Sands of Iwo Jima”
)
Cagney played a psychotic killer with nothing lovable about him. People don’t give awards to characters like that no matter how good a job the actor did.
If you read all three books you know the whole story is about war and killing. There isn’t much to like. Katniss herself seems to kill without worrying about it much. How about that woman who Katniss killed upon entering her house?
I don’t expect ten Oscar nominations for this movie. Members of the Academy already know about the last two books.
Cagney actually started out as a song and dance man.
But his talent for playing bad guys was soon recognized ( in Sinner’s Holiday, 1930 ).Hannibal Lector had some geniune feelings for Agent Clarice Starling. “The world is more interesting with you in it.” This gave him some sympathy with the audience despite his evil ways. People felt sorry for the wretch.
When a movie rakes in 700 million dollars at the boxoffice in a few mounts, count on it, everybody in Hollywood scrambles to find out why. They’ve all read the books.
Okay I admitted I was a little harsh on Peeta, it’s a book/movie, I took sides. Anyway the point abount the young girls is this series was overwhelmingly successful with young girls. And as Gale was the first potential male character introduced it would seem plausible that a certain amount of the young girls reading the book would have “fallen” for him, you know what I mean, they would have hoped he and Katniss would have become the primary love interests in the story.
So? Who cares what the readers think? The idea that an author should be held hostage to the whims of her readers makes no sense. The author should produce the product that he desires.
SUZANNE COLLINS DELENDA EST!While I do know at least one female reader who felt the way you describe, most don’t for a simple reason you’re overlooking: Collins spends very little time fleshing out Gale’s character. He’s barely featured in The Hunger Games and only slightly more so in Catching Fire. He doesn’t really get a lot of focus until Mockingjay.
I agree Hollywood will take note of the sucess of the films and possibly try to duplicate it. My point was that when it comes time for next years Oscar nominations the film will be judged on it’s own merits, not the remaining books in the series – which will have their own films.Cagney actually started out as a song and dance man.
Hannibal Lector had some geniune feelings for Agent Clarice Starling. “The world is more interesting with you in it.” This gave him some sympathy with the audience despite his evil ways. People felt sorry for the wretch.
When a movie rakes in 700 million dollars at the boxoffice in a few mounts, count on it, everybody in Hollywood scrambles to find out why. They’ve all read the books.
They found out that Katniss is not the most sympathetic character. She kills with little worrying over it. Except for her devotion to Prim, she shows little if any affinity for anybody in all three books. Gale is a friend at the beginning of the first book but it doesn’t get very far.
Katniss would never be named Miss Congeniality.
Best actress will probably go to Meryl Streep for her latest with Tommy Lee Jones. It’s a “safe choice”. Hollywood plays it safe.
Besides, Hunger Games is one of those unique stories that couldn’t be imitated without being an obvious rip off ot the original. No more movies like it could be made ( by somebody else ). So why encourage it?
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You could be right. But don’t be surprised if she wins again.
Agreed but most of what they nominate is…THE SWANThe King’s Speech and The Artist are hardly trashy or morally offensive.