{"id":1422,"date":"2012-03-24T07:09:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T11:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2012-03-24T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T21:00:45","slug":"hunger-games-film-not-violent-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2012\/03\/24\/hunger-games-film-not-violent-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger Games Film: Not Violent Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/03\/Hunger-Games-Movie-Pictures-Jennifer-Lawrence2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1427\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/03\/Hunger-Games-Movie-Pictures-Jennifer-Lawrence2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/03\/Hunger-Games-Movie-Pictures-Jennifer-Lawrence2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/03\/Hunger-Games-Movie-Pictures-Jennifer-Lawrence2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/03\/Hunger-Games-Movie-Pictures-Jennifer-Lawrence2.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below a link to David Denby&#8217;s review of <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> film in <em>The New Yorker.<\/em>\u00a0 I&#8217;m waiting until Wednesday to see the film with my students.\u00a0 Read the full review, and you will find that he pulls no punches in telling us how much he hates the movie.\u00a0 Would he prefer <em>Battle Royale<\/em>?\u00a0 I&#8217;ve posted the trailer for that film below, and, just a warning, it does not have a Pg-13 rating.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d is a prime example of commercial hypocrisy. The filmmakers bait kids with a cruel idea, but they can\u2019t risk being too intense or too graphic (the books are more explicit). After a while, we get the point: because children are the principal audience, the picture needs a PG-13 rating. The result is an evasive, baffling, unexciting production\u2014anything but a classic.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/cinema\/2012\/04\/02\/120402crci_cinema_denby#ixzz1q20PVF52\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/cinema\/2012\/04\/02\/120402crci_cinema_denby#ixzz1q20PVF52<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iaoUClZH3Yg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And even scarier (be warned):<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y-T7yPJVvXw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below a link to David Denby&#8217;s review of The Hunger Games film in The New Yorker.\u00a0 I&#8217;m waiting until Wednesday to see the film with my students.\u00a0 Read the full review, and you will find that he pulls no punches in telling us how much he hates the movie.\u00a0 Would he prefer Battle Royale?\u00a0 I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}