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‘Hunger Games’ Scare You? Blame Bush, Says DVD
MRC.org ^ | Aug. 27, 2012 | Lauren Thompson

Posted on 09/09/2012 6:32:28 AM PDT by 1rudeboy

America is a totalitarian regime. Or, it was when George W. Bush was president. And maybe it still is. Or something.

As if we needed more proof that blockbuster entertainment needn’t have even a nodding acquaintance with cogent political thought, the people that brought us Suzanne Collins’s “Hunger Games” franchise can’t just quietly take their millions to the bank. They need us to know how unfair their payday is.

“The Hunger Games” DVD was released Aug. 18, and the special features section titled “Game Maker: Suzanne Collins and the Hunger Games Phenomenon” is filled with nuggets of liberal received wisdom about American capitalism and the horrors of life under the Bush regime.

David Levithan, from the publisher Scholastic, commented how “The Hunger Games” was “written in frustration of the Bush era,” and blogger Amanda Belcher feared that although “this book is about horrific events, it’s really not that far-fetched from things that are going on today.”

Levithan really, really wanted to make sure audiences know who the real villain of the story is. “These books were written in the heart of the Bush era. The commentary there is it is written in this last regime. These feelings of disenfranchisement haven’t gone away,” he said.

Don’t recall Bush demanding each state should offer up their children to fight to the death on reality television. Was it around the time he let Ted Kennedy write education “reform,” or when he was expanding the Medicare entitlement?

Actor Donald Sutherland (who plays dictator President Snow), praised the Occupy Wall Street movement, asserting that it’s “absolutely time” for a revolution.

[The Hunger Games] is an allegory of this imperial power, this oligarchy of the multi-rich, this 0.1 percent,” droned, and the actor has shilled for Occupy Wall Street before. Sutherland, of course, is a member of that imperial 1 percent. His net worth is estimated at $40 million. (In fairness, that’s only $39.7 million in Canadian dollars, and Sutherland is from Toronto …)

In the same interview Sutherland said, “[The Hunger Games] so clearly and carefully echoes [today]. I think the people with Occupy Wall Street and Occupy L.A., out of those people will come a leader. It has to. It’s time, it’s absolutely time.” To date, the Occupiers haven’t produced much beyond theme parks for vermin, so Mr. Sutherland seems too optimistic.

In the same vein, Drew McWeeny a senior-reviewer at hitfix.com stated Americans are “living through” the content of “The Hunger Games.”

“Obviously there’s not going to be a revolution in the streets of Panem, but I think there are major changes coming and situations to be addressed. Her [Suzanne Collins] book will continue to resonate over the next few years. It will be fascinating to see how real life and her work parallel over the next couple of years,” McWeeny said.

Here’s looking forward to such incisive commentary in about 10 years when Levithan will remind us that the “The Food Stamp Games” was “written in frustration of the Obama era.”



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boycotthollywood; bushsfault; defundtheleft; hollywoodreds; liberalism; thehungergames
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1 posted on 09/09/2012 6:32:30 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

It’s a shame, really - the movie was a lot of fun.

But, then, it seems one cannot expect people who indulge in make believe for a living - and an opulent living at that - to demonstrate the capacity for cool and rational thought in the real world.


2 posted on 09/09/2012 6:42:04 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: 1rudeboy

Funny, when I read the book I couldn’t stop thinking about the powers of a big government that can force a citizenry to watch and participate in a system of mandatory murder and total manipulation. Do you think Sutherland donated his bonanza to a Toronto food bank or homeless shelter?


3 posted on 09/09/2012 6:43:39 AM PDT by immadashell
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To: 1rudeboy

And yet it was the GOVERNMENT that was bloated and rich and exploiting everyone else in the books and the movie.


4 posted on 09/09/2012 6:44:40 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: 1rudeboy

Sweet sweet tear of Libtard derangement...


5 posted on 09/09/2012 6:45:23 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (A tale of a very grey woman, who was no lady...)
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To: 1rudeboy
[The Hunger Games] is an allegory of this imperial power, this oligarchy of the multi-rich, this 0.1 percent,” droned, and the actor has shilled for Occupy Wall Street before. Sutherland, of course, is a member of that imperial 1 percent. His net worth is estimated at $40 million.

At the heart of every liberal is a core of hypocrisy.


6 posted on 09/09/2012 6:47:23 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Worst. President. Ever.)
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To: 1rudeboy

And here is what it means to be a liberal.

The folks who adorn their walls with images of Che are the same folks who place the nations healthcare in the hands of unelected bureaucrats.

The evil they claim to see in others, they simply cannot, or will not see in themselves


7 posted on 09/09/2012 6:48:16 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: 1rudeboy
“Oddball” should have stopped smoking weed in 1946.

Hey Oddball... “stop with them negatives waves baby”!

LLS

8 posted on 09/09/2012 6:49:42 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("if it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
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To: 1rudeboy

Only watched the movie. Jennifer Lawrence is fine for one’s eyes.


9 posted on 09/09/2012 6:51:12 AM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: reagan_fanatic

I find it interesting (full disclosure: haven’t read the book or seen the movie), that libs go out of their way to tell the folks who saw the movie that, “you didn’t see what you thought you saw.” Or, “THIS is really what you saw.”


10 posted on 09/09/2012 6:52:03 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Jack Hammer
It’s a shame, really - the movie was a lot of fun

It was, as was the book.

Problem is, too many people found a conservative message in the movie so the producers had to chime in and tell us this wasn't really what they meant. Oops.

11 posted on 09/09/2012 6:53:56 AM PDT by Drew68 (I WILL vote to defeat Barack Hussein Obama!)
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To: SMGFan

http://images.mstarz.com/data/images/full/4648/jennifer-lawrence.jpg?w=600


12 posted on 09/09/2012 6:55:32 AM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: 1rudeboy

re: I find it interesting (full disclosure: haven’t read the book or seen the movie), that libs go out of their way to tell the folks who saw the movie that, “you didn’t see what you thought you saw.” Or, “THIS is really what you saw.”

Libs did the same thing for the movie “Wag the Dog”.


13 posted on 09/09/2012 6:56:54 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: 1rudeboy
I think it's hilarious that the people who brought us this story blame it thoroughly on the Republicans, when things are no different under the Democrats.

Party affiliation is irrelevant to the workings of our government. The agenda progresses regardless.

14 posted on 09/09/2012 7:05:00 AM PDT by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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Is he kidding? The Hunger Games are subconsciously making the next generation deathly afraid of a strong centralized government. The main nemeisis is an all powerful national government, using drones and troops against its own people. All the money and resources are siphoned to this strong centralized area while the zones live in squalor and submission. A lot of currently teenage girls should be joinng the ranks of the tea party in about 10 years if my theory is right.


15 posted on 09/09/2012 7:20:40 AM PDT by gore_sux (Al Franken - Preferred by Minnesota Educated Somali Pirates and Suicide Bombers Everywhere)
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To: 1rudeboy
[The Hunger Games] is an allegory of this imperial power, this oligarchy of the multi-rich, this 0.1 percent,” droned, and the actor has shilled for Occupy Wall Street before. Sutherland,

They blame Republicans for their oppression yet the wealthiest of the wealthy in this country mostly Leftist Democrats like Sutherland.

Socialism is for the people not the Socialist.

16 posted on 09/09/2012 7:20:58 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: 1rudeboy

How come some petulant dorkweed gets to insert his political nasty into a major film?

The investors should be financially punished when they fail to clean out the gratuitous snot from these otherwise outstanding productions.


17 posted on 09/09/2012 7:24:48 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: 1rudeboy

The author ripped the concept off from another book from 1999, called Battle Royale.

I have read all three books, and I don’t see how any of that could happen under a Conservative/Libertarian society. First of all the GOVERNEMNT runs everything in Panem. There are no corporations, people do not have the freedom to live where they want, they don’t have the freedom to ANYTHING they want, the people can’t have guns, only the authorities can have a gun. People can be killed for hunting. People can be killed for talking bad about the government. The people living in the districts work for the GOVERNMENT, and the Government forcefully distributes the wealth and produce of each district to the surrounding districts. Meanwhile food is rationed by the government. While the people at the top, and the people who live in the Capitol get the best of everything and live it up.

The Hunger Games trilogy has more in common with Communism than Free Market Capitalism.


18 posted on 09/09/2012 7:29:52 AM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: 1rudeboy

The capitol in “Hunger Games” is definitely liberal.

* body modification (mostly liberal except military tattoos) * utter concentration of people into small zones (liberal/fascist Agenda 21)
* idealization of nature as people free and protection of animals, to the point that starving people are whipped for hunting for food or mutilated into avox
* the rulers rule but consider military service beneath them (using sector 2 people as peacekeepers unless a citizen is deeply in debt), whereas conservatives value service


19 posted on 09/09/2012 7:31:35 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: reagan_fanatic

At the heart of every liberal is a core of hypocrisy.”

Yep. No question. Liberals are the absolute one-percenters. They worship the concept of an ‘informed oligarchy’ - the one percent - who tell the rest of us how to live. Well, with absolute honesty I can say that I would rather not live than to live like that - under them.

20 posted on 09/09/2012 7:34:15 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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