After "The Hunger Games I" was released for a while, I couldn't restrain my curiosity and watched it online. I don't particularly like it. I like the background and setting of the story, and I like the picture, but Jennifer Lawrence's appearance and performance have not won my heart so far. I don't understand why it's the most popular teen novel, even after reading "II", even if I swallowed the novel, even if the movie included Come Away To The Water and Ellie Goulding and new love Imagine Dragons (actually I didn't hear Who where is We Are).
Kaniss is a nasty heroine, even with a foul nickname like Catnip. Maybe not comparable to other-dimensional creatures like the Madonna of Peach Blossoms and Colorful Mary Sue, but she is indeed unpleasant. Not cute, not pretty, impulsive, selfish, cowardly. She is not like a traditional heroine. She either has strong personal charm or has a spare tire group of handsome boys who make ignorant girls crazy. She is not a goddess of war, not a spiritual benchmark, but a fake goddess who is painted with colorful colors and feathers, and The brain structure is closer to the lower creatures driven by desire, and the desire for love and hate and survival is too direct. As the protagonist of teenage novels, I always feel that she should be beautiful or cute or delicate, it doesn't matter if she is petite, the loli with magic power is more cute. She should be strong, intelligent, spiritually mature, with a sense of justice and mission, convincing, respected, and dependable. But she was just a girl who was attacked by coincidence. Because of her willfulness and cunning, she made behaviors that were considered to be full of rebellious spirit. She was made into an idol by those in power and used as a tool to command the foolish people. She is just a girl who is driven by the wheel of fate to run desperately, and the only thing she cares about is survival. She is fake, she is ordinary, what she can do others will do, she is not special. Her only virtue is that her thoughts are real, ugly and shameful. The author does not hide her selfishness and indifference, her cowardice and hypocrisy, her paranoia and neuroticism, and her simple and direct desire for survival - simply rewarding those so-called democratic, fair, just, heroic, and rebellious spirits Elegant slap in the face. So I love these things about her that I hate. I don't know what other people like about her, and I don't know why this novel and movie are so popular, but I believe that others are different from what I like.
After reading the novel, I feel that Jennifer Lawrence's performance is not the Katniss in the original text. Her eyes are a bit dull, and more often she looks silly rather than indifferent. This may not be her fault. Who told the author to portray an old girl who is not good at words but has a lush and wild inner drama? In this way, Katniss on the screen is actually more likable, because there is no narration to express her inner cowardly struggle, and the camera can only follow her wisdom and perseverance. That's what a heroine should look like, isn't it?
"The Hunger Games II" is similar to HP6. The director cut the plot of the original book too much, and the splicing is illogical, making people confused. What is even more outrageous is that the director or screenwriter believes too much in his own imagination. In order to show the technological picture, he forced Plutarch to spin the horn of Zeus with a smirk - GJ, who would believe that he was an undercover agent sent by the rebel army?
I'm not going to say the novel is great, I'm not going to say I like it, but it does impress me to the point of dreaming, and I don't like the thoughts I've built around it, or at least don't want to write it at all.
I always thought Katniss would die alone if she didn't pick Peeta, and she and Gale wouldn't be happy. Hey.
Oh and the fact that Peeta's character is so unreal, he makes the story all the more endearing and makes the novel feel like a novel.
Hope Imagine Dragons and Ellie Goulding continue to shine in III and IV.
And Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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