>>>> Hunger Games actor hopes film franchise will galvanise young voters <<<

[Omaha Steve]

I got this from Marta.


http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/11/hunger-games-mockingjay-donald-sutherland-jennifer-lawrence


Ahead of the third instalment premiere, Donald Sutherland says young people have been ‘dormant’ for a generation or two



Actor Donald Sutherland poses for photographers at the world premiere in London of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1. Photograph: Joel Ryan/Invision/AP

Catherine Shoard
Monday 10 November 2014 19.05 EST

The actor Donald Sutherland has said that he had signed up for the Hunger Games franchise “for one specific reason: so that young people will recognise their obligation to change the government. To go to the voting booths in 2016 and choose somebody who will satisfy them. Because if they don’t we’re lost.”

At a press conference before the film’s premiere in London, Sutherland, who plays the fascist dictator President Snow, said he hoped the films would help galvanise the young to bring “oligarchs” the world over to account, and to act as “a catalyst for young people who have been dormant for a generation or two, particularly in the US. That the Occupy movement fizzled out because it didn’t have a leader … I hope this film will in some way help generate a leader who will pull young people together in a way which they will understand.”

The Hunger Games, adapted from Suzanne Collins’ bestselling series, had already staked out more politically conscious territory than Harry Potter and Twilight, the teenage franchises that preceded it. The original film, which was released in 2012, broke box office records and helped make a star of its lead actor, Jennifer Lawrence, who plays the resourceful Katniss, forced to compete in a lethal reality TV competition that is a central part of a future dystopian society.


Donald Sutherland as the fascist leader President Snow during The Hunger Games film franchise. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar


A sequel, released last year, saw her return to the competition. The third book in the series, Mockingjay, was shot in two parts at a combined cost of $250m, with the first part reaching cinemas this month.

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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. To do what?

Start shooting arrows at corrupt politicians? (An almost completely redundant phrase as it is...)

[bravenak]

2. I would not cry over the loss of them.nt

[YOHABLO]

3. I don't think young folks get the metaphor in Hunger Games. They'd do better reading 1984

[davidn3600]

4. A lot of folks in here don't seem to understand 1984

There are morons here supporting the NSA, hating on WikiLeaks and calling Snowden and Manning "traitors."

Amazing how pro-Big Brother that liberals and progressives became once Obama won the White House.

[Javaman]

6. +1 nt

[JRLeft]

9. Many new this would happen once a dem was in the white house.

[Hatchling]

8. I was talking to my two best friends the other day.

I'm 62 and they are both 20+ years younger than me. I mentioned 1984 during the conversation and was surprised they'd never heard of it. I suggested they read it and one said "you know I don't like history!" I explained it was fiction but dropped the topic quickly after they had no interest.

I almost think it's time for Democrats to begin homeschooling so that the children get a good education.

Schools based on testing and profit are not educating future voters and of course the media is owned by the right.

We need to get control of media and education to have any hope in the future.

[LeftInTX]

5. They will need to follow it up with MASSIVE PSAs

Especially on YouTube and social media

[Javaman]

7. it would only potentially work if it's release a month before the election...

if it's next year, by the time the election rolls around, it will be old news.

timing is everything folks.

I do appreciate the quaint idea that people actually still have long term memories.