![]() When I started reading the first book, I didn’t like it all that much. Does this franchise live up to the hype? Is it actually good, or was it all talk? And at the end of the day, are we Team Peeta or Team Gale? Here’s what The Hunger Games does really wellĬonstance: I still remember the exact moment The Hunger Games got me. To that end, Vox culture writers Constance Grady, Aja Romano, and Alex Abad-Santos joined managing editor Eleanor Barkhorn and critic at large Emily VanDerWerff to talk the whole thing through. Ten years out from the Hunger Games phenomenon, it’s time to look back and reevaluate. They helped launch Jennifer Lawrence to megastardom. They created slogans that were used in actual protest movements. They became a pop culture shorthand for stories of inequality and scarcity. Together, the two series kicked off the YA dystopian boom of the late 2000s. The Hunger Games books were giant best-sellers, and the movie adaptations were blockbusters. And that book - and its two follow-up sequels, 2009’s Catching Fire and 2010’s Mockingjay - became a phenomenon. Coupled with her drag queen-like wit, she is just what The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1-like President Coin-need to really capture the hearts of its audience: Oxygen.Ten years ago this fall, children’s author Suzanne Collins published The Hunger Games, a creepy, insidious story about a dystopian government that forces children to fight in a gladiatorial death match and broadcasts the whole thing on TV. In others, she is our only access to the wearable art the first two films dazzled us with. Even as we are enveloped in Katniss's latest, world-changing adventure, who could blame us for missing the Girl on Fire's distinctive dresses? In some sense, Effie is our stand-in. And when being confronted by so much grimness, it's good and helpful to be remembered of the joys and luxury of triviality.Įffie's longing for her stylish ensembles may seem petty, but it's also a feeling the audience connects to. But she's denied the chance to grin and play with Caesar Flickerman, or frolic with Peeta. ![]() But with so much turmoil, death, and destruction, it could have been a real (depressing) slog. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 is a great movie, and the best the franchise has given us yet. Basically, this movie is pretty damn bleak, but just when it hits a point where it begins to crush us, Plutarch Heavensbee literally opens the door to Effie, a welcomed breath of fresh air. Embedded in the subterranean bunkers of an embattled District 13, there is a discernable dearth of color and gaga glamour. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 begins with Katniss suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Peeta the prisoner of President Snow, and Finnick transformed from confident to cowering. With her uncrushable passion for fashion and expert side-eye, Effie brings some desperately needed levity to this sequel, making her the movie's unexpected MVP. Though the Capitol-based PR maven/District 12 talent handler was barely in the third book in Collin's trilogy, the franchise's filmmakers wisely lace her throughout the first half of the novel's adaptation. ![]() And believe it or not that's a good thing, especially as it concerns a fan favorite of the franchise, Effie Trinket. With the release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, the gap between the worlds of Suzanne Collins' novels and the movies they've inspired widens considerably. ![]()
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