The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins has said that the myth of Theseus inspired the story of Katniss Everdeen bobbing, weaving and murder for public entertainment of a depraved. But Collinss novels and the movie of Jennifer Lawrence gajillions mint this weekend, call to mind a lot of newer properties. What is more, um, honor? The arguments, then a survey.
"The Running Man:" Collins may have had a mirror-of-the-grotesque of the current reality of our television culture. But writing as Richard Bachman, Stephen King provides the culture with his 1982 novel about a man who joins a game show of life and death in a dystopian America. Looking for medicine for his sick daughter, Ben Richards (thin and weak, nothing to do with the superhuman Governator-to-be who was going to embody in the film, 1987) goes on a spooky career, while a national television observation throws back some popcorn. Theres even a game similar in Gamemakers backed by the government: the government-backed network games.
"Battle Royale:" The Japanese cult novel (1999) and movie (2000) and has received the Web erati heat and annoying, especially with Collins saying he had not read the book or seen the movie. You can imagine what might have: Koushun Takamis novel and the film by Kenji Fukasaku that followed used a similar premise to The Hunger Games: A group of children are isolated and told to fight until death only one survives. like the Latin Panem become Collinss novels, Japan Battle Royale has degenerated into a kind of amorphous and sinister land of small, where the government sees everything and does not allow anything.
"Blade Runner:" Whenever a new science fiction story comes around, there is always that guy who says "Do not Ridley Scott, which already" That guy has a point here, a kind of?. Despite not containing the element with the man vs. machine, "The Hunger Games" has a debt to the classic 1982 Harrison Ford: There is a dystopia of America, a subject of hunter and hunted, and lots of people who read a large number of meanings in it.
"Nineteen Eighty-Four." No need to go through the motions of it, right? George Orwell's 1949, the novel talks about the dark and troubled land of Panem - er, Oceania - ruled by the Capito l-um, the party - a shadowy organization that is always watching and mandates that people follow their whims accurate. Any critical reference to the Hill of "The Hunger Games" as a Big Brother type of entity only reminds us that Orwell also had an older brother - the original.
"Lord of the Flies:" A couple of movies to put their own spin on the classic, but the premise of the novel by William Golding is on their own parts, scary and not dissimilar After an unspecified disaster "The Hunger Games. "A group of wealthy young children's accident on an island. They try to join but its Darwinian nature get the better of them and engage in ruthless behavior early in the name of survival. Unlike the Hunger Games, "here is human nature rather than the dictates of the government that we encourage wild behavior. Tomato, tomahto.
Sourc: Latimesblog
0 comments:
Post a Comment