2. • Directed by: Francis Lawrence
• Produced by: Nina Jacobson
• Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
• Budget: $160 million
• Box office: $653.4 million
• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-7K_OjsDCQ
3. How is it Post-Modern?
• Dystopian narrative
• Hyper-Reality
• Intertextuality
• Binary opposites
4. Intertextuality
• Metropolis is set in a futuristic city, which hunger games also uses. A
society where the rich people have a good carefree life, and the poor
live underground. In hunger games the districts mostly live in poverty
and can easily starve to death.
https://youtu.be/m4VoTmcsAu0
5. • The Games we see in the film also have some similar aspects to
modern Television and culture. Reality TV shows such as ‘Big Brother’,
‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’ and ‘The Island with Bear Grylls’
are all based on related ideas. In Reality shows like Big Brother, we
watch groups of people living everyday lives, but in a constructed and
controlled environment.
6. Binary opposites
• Both Strauss and Barthes' argued that binary opposites were central
to narratives, and there are certainly many of these in the film - good
vs. evil; rich vs. poor; the strong vs. the weak; love vs. hate - which
make the narrative interesting, and underline much of the drama in
the story.
• https://youtu.be/QGsXGak8eKk
7. • The film has a conventional linear narrative, progressing in
chronological order (with only some use of flash-backs e.g. to
Katniss's first meeting with Peeta).
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snKXo2S-lRg
