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When FilmInk asks the affable and enjoyably candid Ross if he’s feeling any pressure on the eve of the release of The Hunger Games, the director lets out a sly laugh. “Do you know what pressure is? Pressure is when nobody has heard of you,” he smiles broadly, “and you’ve put a year of your life into a film and you’re really hoping that it will resonate with people. Pressure was spending three years on Pleasantville and hoping that this original thing that I had done was going to find an audience or be remembered. So this is actually very nice. We’ve been very faithful to the book, but the film gives you a very rich cinematic experience that honours what the book is.” …
Was she precious at all? “No, shockingly not,” Ross laughs. “I would sometimes be careful, and she’d go, ‘Gary, this is the film adaptation. Some things work and some things don’t.’ Suzanne had been a television writer, so she understood how some things worked better cinematically. While we were shooting, I added two scenes involving Donald Sutherland’s President Snow that weren’t in the book, and she loved those scenes. There was a part of her that I actually think was more turned on by the additions and the changes because they were fresh and exciting for her. It was a really great collaboration. There was nothing difficult in it.”
Suzanne Collins’ books have a far grittier and more violent edge than those of her fellow literary colleagues, J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer, despite being pitched at a young audience. “I read about the Roman circus,” Ross says of his preparation for the film. “It lasted for 900 years, and by the end of it, they were slaughtering hundreds of people a day, along with elephants and hippopotami. The spectacle of blood grew more and more lurid as society got more and more decadent. To Suzanne Collins, that’s what The Hunger Games really were – cler to Roman spectacle than anything else.”
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That’s pretty sweet…
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Hunger Games Gif Challange
use every 2nd gif in your folder
1. You on the morning of the Reaping:
2. Waiting for you name to be called:
3. Your reaction when your name is called:
4. What you think of the other tribute from your district:
omg lool
5. Saying goodbye to your friends and family:
6. First thing you do on the tribute train:
…….
7. Reaction to the other tributes:
8. What you think of the capitol:
9. What you think of your stylist:
ahaha
10. How you feel about the tributes parade:
11. Reaction to your training score:
12. During your interview prep:
13. Your interview:
14. How you spend your night before the games:
15. Waiting in the launch room:
16. You during the bloodbath at the Cornucopia:
ummm
17. Your reaction when someone asks to be allies:
18. What you do for most of the games:
19. First time you kill someone:
20. You when the other tribute from your district dies:
21. How you feel when you win:
22. How you greet your stylist and mentor:
so rude
23. You during the replay of the hunger games:
24. The first thing you do when you get home:
aahhah rightt
