Alright, so as I was working my NINE hour shift on Saturday, I had some down time and decided to get some ideas together. Here it goes! And feel free to make changes to ANYTHING this was just so that we could get a start.
Intro Artist's Thesis/Hope-To turn a best-selling novel into a movie without turning off fans of the book or
eliminating any audience groups.
Group Thesis (Final decisions of quality)- As a group, we believe that "artist" did an excellent job of
translating the book to a movie.
Summary
The Hunger Games is set in a futuristic setting of what was once North America. The country, Panem, is split into 12 fenced-off, isolated districts and one totalitarian rulin g city, the Capitol. Each year, to remind the districts of their failed rebellion attempt 75 years earlier and the complete power of the government, the Capitol hosts the Hunger Games, in which a boy and a girl between the ages of 12-18 are selected from each district in lottery fashion to fight to the death. When Katniss from District 12 volunteers to take to take the place of her 12-year old sister, the audience follows her on her journey through the pre-game ceremonies, beauty pageant-style interviews, game training, and into the 74th Annual Hunger Games, finding themselves rooting for her in this televised, child-killing ritual.
Analysis
Camerawork:?
Costumes: Good job capturing the importance of the different outfits. (ex. shows situations, rebellions, etc.)
Author: Suzanne Collins was on set during the production to make sure important aspects were translated.
Director:Gary Ross
Distributor :Lionsgate
Rating: PG13
Problems Audience Had + Responses to Problems:
1) Movie should've been R-Rated and added more violence from the book.
When a series becomes famous and a movie is made out of it, producers want to do anything they can to make sure that it reaches as large of an audience as possible. As Scott Danielson (movie critic) said, "no
studio executive in their right mind is going to spend 100 million dollars on a teenphenomenon and then risk limiting the audience".
2) Kids shouldn't watch this because of violence and fear they will get wrong message
In the movie: violence is never celebrated, always somber tone when death occurs, Katniss tries to keep others alive and only kills in self-defense, those that do take on the role of ruthless killer are made to look like psychopaths
3) Movie is a let down
Even with a 2 1/2 hour movie, 300 pages of text cannot be put into a movie.
Also, things will be different than you expected, images will always be different in your head then on-screen. Think about it this way, not everyone will imaging the same thing when reading the book so it can't be shown just like you pictured it.
4) Important parts of the story were missing. (ex. Peeta's leg, Mutts eyes)
5)"[The] Hunger Games painted a raft of characters it couldn't support, leaving deaths that should be heartrending more as a pause in the action. And while Katniss and Peeta are emotionally layered in the novel, here they are simpler souls, two-thirds of a rickety love triangle". (movie critic-cant think of name atm)
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