Hunger Games Poster - Promo Flyer 2012 Movie - 11 X 17 - Jennifer Lawrence - FireBow Margin

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Taking the place of Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is Zegler's Lucy. Lucy is a tribute from District 12, who is paired with Snow as her mentor, and trailers have made clear that she is not as skilled a warrior as Katniss was. As the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes trailer reveals, this is very much Snow's story as well, with the film chronicling his budding romance with Lucy and how he ultimately becomes a ruthless dictator. And that’s what I like about my poster: It reminds me that the Hunger Games books were subtler and more complex than they might seem today, based on the conversations they sparked. Especially after they became megalithic: after imitators flooded YA publishing, and after the dominant online discourse around them — other than talking about the movies — focused in on how annoying Katniss’ first-person narration is. Following 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: BE RESPONSIBLE — FEED YOUR FAMILY — YOUTHS 12-18 MUST ENTER THE LOTTERY FOR THE REAPING — NO EXCEPTIONS — ON PENALTY OF DEATH 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.

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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: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.com

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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. 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.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. With tesserae, Collins didn’t have to say that the Capitol’s culling is weighted toward workers who produce the least for elite consumption, not in so many words. She didn’t have to directly explain that the Hunger Games were designed to display the Capitol’s dominance over the districts, but the tesserae system was designed to perpetuate class divides within the districts themselves. She simply built her setting in line with the universal truth: When rain is falling everywhere, there’s a reason some people get wetter than others.