Hunger Games Movie Analysis

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Purpose of Rhetorical Aim: Movie Review Questions

The Hunger Games movie review provides a well rounded and for the most part complete overview of the story that is effect towards its audience. The work applies to an audience that is both young and old. To be completely honest the review can and does appeal to individuals of all ages. Considering that this particular review was written in Rolling Stone magazine though raises the possibility that it was aimed toward a younger audience, but that could be generalizing to much. The Hunger Games series, in bookstores is placed under the category of being a young adult novel. The truth is however, that their are plenty adults who have enjoyed the series as well therefore the review probably …show more content…

In the first paragraph Travis writes the following statement. “Relax, you legions of Hunger Gamers. We have a winner. Hollywood didn 't screw up the film version of Suzanne Collins ' young-adult bestseller about a survival-of-the-fittest reality show that sends home all its teen contestants, save the victor, in body bags.” Well I don 't know about you but when the phrases relax you legions,screw up and body bags are used i think that it is a piece of work that caters to mostly a younger generation of fans. The fact is if a person was reviewing a movie like Pride and Prejudice they most likely won’t be using the same type of word choice. In Contrast it may sound a bit more sophisticated when reading it in terms of how it is written because of the film’s major …show more content…

The review also does a great job providing enough background to the story without actually giving away to much as giving plenty of other pop culture references within the film.The writing still is effective in such a way that the reader can tell it was meant for some sort of magazine. It is able to present a sense of being informal and yet professional at the same time. On another note I personally think that the comparisons and the contrasts presented about the characters of Bella and Katniss and each of her respected films is extremely helpful. This can be said with the idea that a lot of individuals may have had or do have some reserves about seeing the movie because it could be to similar to Twilight because although both had good box office success, Bella as the heroine of Twilight failed to impress audiences in a lot of ways. With this being said, a compassion done between the two may have assisted the reader in trying to make the choice to see the film and could have proven to be very

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