The Starving games, will it take the cake?
The Starving Games is a 2013 film directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. The film was created entirely to parody the ever so popular movie The Hunger Games. The Starving Games starred actors you’ve never heard of such as Maiara Walsh as Kantmiss Evershot and Cody Christian as Peter Malarkey. Maiara Walsh was possibly one of the only actors in the entire film who was actually known for anything due to the fact that production wasn't really that large and thus struggled to pull in anyone who had been in larger, more popular productions. One thing that was even more surprising about the inability to pull in any big names was that The Starving Games had a rather substantial budget of 4.5 million
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Perhaps you always made fun of how the camera work during the original Hunger Games would have been impossible. Well this film does too, making fun of how the camera work during the actual games was unrealistic by having camera men chase Kantmiss throughout the wilderness clumsily trying to point the camera at the action whilst also attempting to not trip over various obstacles. President Snow didn't avoid the never ending hail of stupid jokes either, he became the illustrious President Snowball who is basically the most horrible human ever. along with this the games are now based entirely around stopping “Stupid stuff” from happening again instead of the previous “stopping rebellion happening again”. Stupid stuff mainly refers to Lady Gaga becoming the president of the United States and various other stupid things happening due to strange viral videos etc. The Starving Games winner now not only gets to survive the games just like in the regular Hunger Games but the winner is now the proud owner of: A ham that expired in 1979, a partially eaten pickle and a discount coupon for subway that allows you to get one footlong sub for a one inch
The article also talks about how the hunger games draws the children. Rea, Steven. A. A. Rea. “The Hunger Games: A fantasy film reflecting reality”. Inquirer Movie Critic.
The Hunger Games are basically the embodiment of society's off sense of entertainment. It combines the oddities that are violence and reality TV. However, what is it that insinuates the tones for this type of movie? Initially, there's a scene that addresses the fact that the society of this movie is conducting the games as though it was a standardized athletic tournament. In the movie, Haymitch Abernathy brings up how there are sponsors who deliver supplies to the “contestants”. Basically, sponsors influence the who will live or die, incidentally affecting the course of the games. During this scene, he claims, “And to get sponsors, you have to make people like you.” This scene mentions the thought on how people living in societies today work
Suzanne Collins has, through her writings, used great imagery to expose the meaningful side of ‘The Hunger Games’, the side that is not all about what takes place in the arena. The Capitol’s rule over the districts, the reality-show part of the Hunger Games and the Mockingjay pin are all fragments of deeper meanings that create the basis of all that the story is. Suzanne Collins has depicted the country of Panem as a place overruled by a large city, known as the Capitol. The Hunger Games is apparently a means to keep peace and a fair punishment for the rebellion of the districts, where district 13 was obliterated in the mess. However, Collins has spun this interpretation around and unveiled a different perspective – that The Hunger Games is
The Hunger Game’s Coriolanus Snow, president of Panem states, “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” In this dystopian society, totalitarian dictatorship is key. President Snow had absolute power over the districts. He knew every move, plan, and uprising that happened within the districts.
The contest within The Hunger Games is rooted deep in the film's backstory, in which the nation of Panem was rocked by a civil war. Twelve oppressed Districts rose up against an oppressive Capitol, and the end result of this civil war was a Capitol victory (Hunger Games). In response to the rebellion of its outer provinces, the government of Panem decreed the creation of the Hunger Games, in which each District would send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to fight in a battle to the death, until only one Victor emerged supreme, who would then, “be showered with glory”, by the Capitol, in order to show the mercy and kindness of their overlords (Hunger Games).... ... middle of paper ...
Imagine if innocent children were sent to a death fight yearly and their their villages had to watch, well that is what happens in the Hunger Games. In Suzanne Collins novel, The Hunger Games, the main character, Katniss Everdeen goes on a Journey to stay alive and humanity back. The Hunger Games is a result of a fight that happened decades before which the outcome is that the victors formed the capital along with yearly massacre. Though the brutal slaughter continues Katniss Everdeen manages to bring humanity back to the games. Katniss Everdeen’s voyage of adapting to her new world follows along with Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey describing the stages of growth she endures.
The Hunger Games was a good movie when it came out. This movie refers to a dystopia world in which there are 12 districts and a capitol who rules with an iron fist, in which the districts must provide a tribute to fight in an annual Hunger Game as a punishment for a past rebellion. Katniss Everdeen is a hunter from the 12th district, which Gale, her friend gives her tips on hunting. One day her sister, Primrose Everdeen, is chosen for the Hunger Games, and in order to save her, she volunteers instead to serve in the Games along with Peeta Mellark. During a TV interview, Peeta confesses her love for Katniss Everdeen, which causes the enragement of the latter; however, she later forgives him as he explains to her that it was only to gain sponsors. During the Hunger Games, she did not receive a lot of supplies except some medicine to cure a wound, but Districts 1 and 2 almost won the Game due to their training, and amount of supplies which Katniss destroys but cannot recover any of them. The Hunger Games was one of the best movies I ever watched because it has a little bit of everything and it captures the real-life survival game that we live on a daily basis.
In both books they share some traits, even though they may not look anything alike they are. both of these novels are dystopian novels and many characters share similarity’s.
The first theme in the movie that is similar to that of mythology is sacrifice. “The Hunger Games” begins with the reaping, a ceremony where one male and one female child from each District are chosen to participate in the Hunger Games to fight to the death. The children are chosen as a sacrifice to pay for the past wrong doings of their ancestors. The ritual begins and a video plays to the audience stating “This is a reminder of the rebellion, a price the districts have to pay. Freedom has a cost; we swore as a nation that we would never know this treason again. So it was said that one female and one male child from each district will be chosen each year to fight to the death as tribute. This is how we remember our past, this is how we secure our future.” The requirement of a sacrifice to ensure survival and food will be available for the future is similar to the sacrifices of many ancient cultures; specifically that of Egyptian myth. Osiris was killed and his body torn to shreds by his brother, Set. Everywhere that Osiris’ body was spread; abundant crops grew as a supply from the Gods. This also relates to the myth of Persephone, who was kidnapped by Pluto and brought to the underworld. Each year when Persephone returned to earth the world would flower with abundant growth, when Persephone went back to the underworld, all plant life ceased to exist until she returned again. This shows ...
Katniss, from The Hunger Games, comes to realize that the government is twisting the true meaning of the Hunger Games. The government is twisting the meaning of the Hunger Games by taking what the true meaning meant when they first started doing these so called Games. She also realizes that the government dehumanizes the population of each district. “They do surgery in the Capitol, to make people appear younger and thinner. In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement, since so many people die early.
Access to food draws a thin line between the privileged and the poor. In Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games, food has a massive impact on the different characters from the different locations. Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist, lives in the poorest district in Panem – District 12. Each different district has a specialty that they use to provide for the Capitol; District 12’s specialty is coal mining. Author Despail explains the districts in a way that makes it easier to understand by stating that “[e]ach outlying district in Panem forms an identity around not only the products the district is known for but also the ways in which its citizens cope with their lack of food” (70). Because of this, many people in District 12 have a tough time
I unwilllingly walked through the entrance of regret and guilt. With teary eyes from what happened the night before, I didn’t know what I could say. All I thought was ‘It was an accident’ but that didn’t matter anymore.
In a not-too-distant, some 74 years, into the future the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 13 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games; these children are referred to as tributes (Collins, 2008). The Games are meant to be viewed as entertainment, but every citizen knows their purpose, as brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts. The televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eradicate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. The main character throughout the series is a 16-year-old girl from District 12 named Katniss Everdeen.
Primarily, the major comparison between the novel and our world today is the theme of inequality between rich and poor. In The Hunger Games, there is an immense gap between the rich and the poor. The rich living in the city’s capitol, Panem, and the poor living in the twelve districts, therefore “the result is a huge disparity between their lives and the lives of the poor” (“The Hunger Games”). This lack of equality reveals itself in many ways throughout the novel. The first example being food, and starvation among district twelve also known as “where you can starve to death in safety” (6). Katniss and her family struggle to survive, forcing Katniss to hunt illegally outside of the district electric fences. If it were not for her hunting, her family would starve. Another example of inequality, is the tessera system and the way the tributes are chosen for the games. The day of the reaping is when tributes are chosen to participate in the hunger games. The concept is for the drawing of names to be as fair as possible, yet that is not true. In addition to the first time the children’s names are put in, the children can enter their names further times in exchange for extra rations of food and oil. Therefore, the poor are more likely to have more entries than wealthy families, due to the...
The book, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins can be deciphered in many different ways. Emily Lem and Holly Hassle’s view on this story is how The Hunger Games defy the norm by breaking down gender-related barriers. They argue that, “Katniss capitalizes patriarchal values that privilege traditionally masculine qualities…” (Lem-Hassel 118). This perception is not entirely wrong, but it’s not the main theme of the book. Bill Clemente and Valerie Estelle Frankel argue that Panem is a political, cultural, and metaphorical parallel to our nation of America. Clemente states that The Hunger Games “reflect on the political dissatisfaction and economic hardship that inform contemporary society” (Clemente 20). Frankel joins