American Culture In Starving Games Analysis

American culture in Parodies: A Look into Vampires Suck (2010) and Starving Games (2013) by Nadine Magsalin

Parodies introduces its audiences to the ideas of the frontier, harsh life, violence, outlawed gun fights, but especially the symbolic landscape (Cawelti 1978: 193) and the inventory of characters such as gunslingers, villains, beautiful ladies and prostitutes that have not only formed specific aspects of the genre of the western, but also of a myth of American cultural identity.

According to many critics (Poirier 1968; Bradbury 1980) parody is one of the most important forms and tropes of the twentieth-century literature. Not only parody, but also irony used in popular genres point out, on the one hand, the exhaustion of traditional

Kantmiss is tracking wildlife and sees a chicken on a tree branch. She pulls back and as she is about to release the arrow a friend of hers jumps up and surprises her, the arrow goes way off its mark, towards a man in a balloon gondola, hits him in the chest and he falls dead to the ground. Maiara Walsh is Kantmiss Evershot which I could accept as a clever character name. Maira Walsh also has nice comic timing of her own. In addition, another lead caught my attention, Diedrich Bader, plays an amusing President Snowball (Hunger Games' President Snow). Some other good points about the movie are as follows: flow from scene to scene is good, use of an actual forest, the announcers, the blue guys and the pink lady. One setback for the movie would be the scene wherein the two main parody characters having sex behind a picture of the president's face (only to have Gandalf and Hagrid from Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter show up like perverts), people getting kicked in the crotch and a girl hallucinating about being a character from Avatar (another popular movie) and having sex. In addition, a majority of the movie was spent with scenes such as cheerleaders dancing around wearing plastic funnels in their shirts. This parody might not make you laugh, but it will make you (at least)

Say in Twilight, it was known to be a movie who was popularized by hormonal teenagers longing for the same love Bella has with Edward. The more with a love triangle with a gorgeous wolf, Jacob. Or basically, the stereotype of young love. There are loads of unhealthy stereotypes out there – and you should know that you don’t even have to date, and focusing on finding a guy probably won’t end well. If you’re young, one has to focus on building solid friendships and not on how gorgeous your future man will be. In Starving Games, however, the focus is more on unusual sex (say in very unusual instances) and the very notable stereotyping of cheerleaders. The parody delivered the expected stereotype for a cheerleader - one who is popular, drama making, and makes fun of other "non-popular" people. The movie also made use of plastic funnel underneath these cheerleaders shirts so as to objectify the breast of these