Adapting best-selling novels is not entirely a lossless business. There are successful "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" series, regardless of the latter's low evaluation and high box office in the world, only 8 It can be seen that the total box office of the "Harry Potter" series is higher than the total box office of dozens of "007" series, Hollywood businessmen will not let go of novels. Of course, there are also a lot of failures. For example, the box office failure of "The Golden Compass" shut down the new company New Line Pictures, which was founded on "The Lord of the Rings", and the "Percy Jackson and the Thief of Fire", which is generally a hoax. . Generally speaking, one of the most important factors in the success of adapting novels is how to successfully transform the attractive parts of the novel into movie elements, and at the same time not dissatisfied with novel fans. There is no successful model that can be replicated (" The phenomenon of Harry Potter 5~7 making fans dissatisfied that ordinary audiences can’t understand is an example of out of control), fortunately, “The Hunger Games” successfully seized the best-selling elements of the novels and quantified them into movie elements, while the theme of Proper control also makes the film not simply a popcorn movie.
"The Hunger Games" tells about the world that takes place in the future overhead of the North American continent. The country is divided into 12 regions. The "Hunger Games" is held every year. Each of the twelve regions elects two people to send them to the "Colosseum". Go to the fight, and those who survive will receive the highest honor and bonus. Listening to this plot introduction is very similar to Fukasaku Xinji's "Battle Royale", which also led many people to compare the two films after the release of the plot. In fact, there is no need for this. "Battle Royale" is more of an extreme state. In the midst of the annihilation and mutation of human nature, this film is a delicate description of people fighting for hope under the oppression of the ruler, and at the same time, it also rubbed the ruling class a while. In the film, the president tells the game controller that "hope" is the only thing better than fear. A powerful force must be well controlled, which is also the main reason for the changes in the killing scene in the second half of the movie.
Except for District 1, District 2 and District 4, all the areas depicted in the film are full of poverty and oppression, where people are struggling to survive, and the "Hunger Games" every year also makes these people at the bottom afraid, so Let the ruling class oppress it better. The guy's explanation for the origin of all this is that about 75 years ago, the huge gap between the rich and the poor and the uneven distribution of materials led to riots in 13 administrative districts, which was called the "dark period".
It can be seen from this that the novel has a taste of rebellion from beginning to end, and the movie magnifies this extreme vision. Whether it is the dress and lifestyle of the people in the first district, people have a natural disgust They feel that they have more perverted pursuits for the erosion of life. Watching "The Hunger Games" is also one of the joys of this group of people, and the film also points out that the people in District 1, District 2 and District 4 are rich, but this kind of killing The competition is regarded as an experience, which is very ironic. The demise of mankind is self-inflicted. There is a very interesting detail in the film. The heroine sees a little boy in the square with a long sword as a gift from his parents to chase and beat his sister. The parents are still happy to watch it. This scene suddenly reminds me of the sci-fi classic "Terminator". 2" John Connor sees two young boys shooting at each other with guns and saying to the Terminator "We're going to kill ourselves one day, right?" The two are surprisingly consistent.
Many people complained that the first hour of the film was too long, and it was not hard to guess. After all, domestic audiences expect a quick kill for such a film. As for the emotional description and detailed foreshadowing of an hour, they will blame the director for the rhythm more. In fact, it is not the case. In addition to laying the groundwork for the emotional entanglement of the next two films, I saw more of the ruling class's perverted obsession with this kind of game, which made the killing scene in the second half of the movie not. Simply rendering the horror of the game also makes the ruling class lose face.
Why do you say this, because the game itself is to let people see the hope of slaughtering and surviving, but at the same time, it cannot make them full of hope to give up the survival requirement of slaughtering each other, and multiple control can make the people better submit to the rule This is equivalent to the rulers of the Celestial Dynasty. On the one hand, they create the illusion of peace and harmony, and on the other hand, they do a lot of evil in private, giving people a vicious circle in which life will be beautiful if they live comfortably. Hope is powerful. For rulers, they understand that hope is a double-edged sword for them, and they cannot easily relax the supervision of hope.
When the game was in progress, the game controller modified the rules of the game three times. The first time was to let people see the hope that the hero and heroine could live better, so they allowed the two to win alive. The second revision is to preserve the dignity of the game and the ruler. The third revision of the rules is that the male and female protagonists go to Huangquan together, which completely subverts the core value of the entire game: giving people hope. So the ruler always slaps himself, very ironic.
The first film was a hit at the North American box office, and the second film was naturally put on the schedule to choose a day to shoot. The first film has a good foundation. As for the second film, how to continue this appropriate metaphor and irony, and restore the novel's The essence is naturally the main reason why fans can look forward to it, and for the action scenes, the producer Lionsgate promised that there will be more action scenes in the second part, hoping that this will not lose the excellent quality of this series.
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