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Overall it is great to see the novel brought to life on the big-screen. First of all, kudos to the actors - each does a marvelous job with their roles. Harrelson, Lawrence, Hutchinson, Tucci, Banks and the rest of the cast - they all nail their characters and do them honor. This is a ghoulish little detail that’s absent from the Hunger Games movies, and easy to miss in the books. In Panem, if a family finds itself without means — the examples we see firsthand are widowed and disabled parents — its children can sign up for a “tessera,” or a year’s starvation rations for one person. Children can sign up each year they’re eligible for the Hunger Games, and each year, they can sign up for as many tesserae as they have family members.

Hunger Games books were so much smarter than the movie The Hunger Games books were so much smarter than the movie

And it’s a reminder to me that in this pop-culture golden age of the adaptation, film doesn’t elevate the lowbrow, or legitimize the overlooked. At least not by default. It’s another way of telling a story, not the ultimate way of telling a story.Discover the origins of Panem's feared President Coriolanus Snow in the upcoming Hunger Games prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

Hunger Games’ Poster: Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Takes Aim ‘Hunger Games’ Poster: Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Takes Aim

But more than that, what I like about my poster is that it reminds me that the medium is always the message. The girl who burned The first color on this palette, Primrose, is named for the main character’s little sister, who is killed by a bomb set by her own forces. Image: LA Splash Cosmetics.comFollowing the anti-militarism theme Collins developed over the series, the posters promoting the Capitol’s agenda don’t look much different from those promoting the rebel cause: I think people underestimate the Hunger Games because — as with the Lord of the Rings movies — they remember the derivative stuff that came after the books more than they remember the strengths of the work that sparked the genre. And they remember the movies, where the fundamental constraints of the medium condense, flatten, and distance the audience from the message.

Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes poster The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes poster

Then we have the ruthless new clutch of game-makers who will be making the tributes' lives a living hell. Peter Dinklage is playing Casca Highbottom, the Dean of the Academy that President Snow is attending. Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-oldCoriolanus Snowis the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Gamesfast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentorLucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy Gray’s race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake. The Hunger Games’ story always strained against the basic fact that simply by being adapted into cinema, it was rendered into spectacle. The movies removed viewers from Katniss’ perspective and recast them as Capitol citizens: an audience swept away by a far-off life-or-death drama of love and war that could have no more relevance to their actual lives than fiction.But you might not know the specifics: The Reaping isn’t a totally random lottery. For one thing, it’s weighted toward older kids. A 12-year-old’s name will only be in the globe once, but a 13-year-old will have two slips of paper, a 14-year-old three, and so on. For another, the Hunger Games are weighted toward the poor. You probably know the broad strokes of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian YA series. In the techno-genetic society of Panem, the hedonistic Capitol maintains its dominance over 12 other districts through military might and a yearly, televised debutante-ball-slash-reality-show-slash-battle-royale featuring 24 children from the lesser districts. These “tributes” are chosen in a ceremony called the Reaping, where their names are put on paper slips and randomly drawn from a globe. Any child age 12 to 18, so long as they reside in the district, could be chosen. I also liked the way some posters played with color and texture. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire had a series of portrait posters: Of course, there will be no sign of Lawrence's tenacious Katniss Everdeen in this particular story, given it's set 65 years in the past. The official synopsis is as follows: We also have Josh Andrés Rivera's Sejanus Plinth whose family connections gain him admittance to the Capitol and Snow's counsel, despite Plinth's hatred of the games.