Monday, November 24, 2014

Director Francis Lawrence, screenwriter Peter Craig, and producer Nina Jacobson spoke to BuzzFeed News about adapting the final installment of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling franchise. MAJOR SPOILERS!


Warning: The following story contains MAJOR SPOILERS for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.


Warning: The following story contains MAJOR SPOILERS for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 .


Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.


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When screenwriter and author Peter Craig (The Town) first got the call about adapting Suzanne Collins' best-selling novel Mockingjay — the culmination of the wildly popular Hunger Games series about reluctant revolutionary Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) — into two feature films, he dropped the phone.


His shock could have been due to the daunting task of transforming Collins' darkest and most psychological novel into a global commercial blockbuster, or having to artificially split the book's narrative into two franchise-extending movies. Instead, the reason was much more straightforward.


"I have daughters," he told BuzzFeed News in his first major interview about The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, which opened worldwide this weekend. "Both [are] massive fans. Like, my oldest daughter actually took up archery — a crazed Katniss fan, basically." Before his first meeting with the film's producers to pitch himself for the job, Craig even ran one of his ideas — breaking from Collins' book to depict part of the Panem rebellion in the lumber-generating District 7 — by his daughter's carpool. "They were really into it. 'Yeah yeah yeah, Dad, do the tree thing!'"



Producers Jon Kilik, Nina Jacobson, author Suzanne Collins, and screenwriter Peter Craig at the Los Angeles premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 on Nov. 17, 2014.


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His daughters steered him in the right direction. Craig got the job as Mockingjay's primary screenwriter, when Danny Strong (Lee Daniels' The Butler) moved on after writing the first drafts. And Craig's idea about District 7 was just the first of several significant changes from Collins' book that he integrated into the films, along with director Francis Lawrence (who also helmed the second film in the franchise, Catching Fire), producer Nina Jacobson (who first optioned the rights to Collins' novel), and Collins herself.


Craig, Lawrence, and Jacobson recently spoke to BuzzFeed News in a series of phone interviews about the complicated process of adapting Mockingjay – Part 1 — meaning that the rest of this story contains several MAJOR SPOILERS for the film, even for those who have read Collins' novel.




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Meanwhile In America, Brown Girls Are Still Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and she deserved better than a racist joke.



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This past summer, a copy of a book called Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson showed up on my desk. It was a memoir written in poems, about a young black girl raised in South Carolina and New York City. I read it immediately. Each page was as enthralling as the last. It was the book I'd waited a lifetime for, the book I never worked up the nerve to write.


I have a letter from my father that says, "My darling, books are the easiest place to find your dreams. Once you have your dreams, keep them safe and they will keep you safe." My father had drawn pictures of me in the margins. He sent it a month before my eighth birthday. I brought the letter to class for show-and-tell. The other kids were confused. "Why does your daddy write you letters? Why doesn't he just talk to you?" I told them my dad was in jail, and letters were how he talked to me. The teacher cut me off, and asked the next student to come up. I sat on the circle carpet, clutching my dad's letter. Sometimes I feel as if a version of myself is still sitting there: a little brown girl holding onto that letter for dear life.


I've spent the last 20 years learning to live what my father wrote.


By the time I was in the third grade, Romeo & Juliet was my favorite book. It was a prize I'd won in a summer reading program at my local library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I kept a notebook where I spent hours copying my favorite passages. I was sure someday I could write like William Shakespeare. That was my dream. At school, my teacher snatched the book out of my hand during silent reading hour. "Romeo & Juliet? Ashley, this is reading time, not pretend to read time." From then on, I left Shakespeare at home.


The library became a refuge. The librarians never stopped me from reading anything, but they weren't terribly interested in my desire for more books about black girls. I'd read The American Girl series, Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman, and even The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. When asked — and I asked often — the librarians insisted they were ordering all of the most popular books for kids and teens. One librarian slid a book across the counter toward me. The protagonist on the cover was a blonde-haired and blue-eyed girl. I picked the book up and halfheartedly read the synopsis on the back, and sat it back down. "A book doesn't have to be about someone the same race as you for you to love it," the librarian told me. A younger librarian piped in and said, "We'd love to have more books for kids like you, Ashley. There just aren't enough of them. No one really writes them." I checked out the book with the blonde on the cover.


I was a child, but I was well aware I could love a book about someone who wasn't the same race as me. In fact, if I only read books about brown kids, I would have quickly run out of reading material in our little library. Had my white classmates decided to only read books with characters who looked like them, the same would not be true. This felt wrong. I had stories too. I had dreams, and I wanted the same confirmation that my written words would matter to someone. During an "Our Future" presentation for my third grade class, I stood up and said I wanted to be a writer for kids. The presenter said, "You can do that! What would you write about?" Before I could speak, a boy in my class said, "About her daddy being in jail!"


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As an adult, I've read many books with black women and girls as central characters. But I would be lying if I said they were all easy to come by or widely known. Whenever a book with a brown girl as a protagonist comes out, word among brown women writers spreads fast. "Did you pick up Pointe by Brandy Colbert? The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson?" We are no longer teens or children, but we are still ravenous for these images of our younger selves. We buy these books for the kids we know and love, especially the girls, because it should be better for them than it was for us, right? We've been waiting, writing, and voting for these stories with our dollars. When I read Brown Girl Dreaming this summer, it was the realization of a dream.


Last Wednesday, I was supposed to attend the after-party for National Book Awards, but found myself in bed with an ear infection and hives. Still, I had my fingers crossed for two writers I desperately wanted to see walk away with awards. I followed the tweets of friends and fellow writers who attended the banquet, waiting for them to announce the winners. I was disappointed when Claudia Rankine's name was not called for Citizen for the Poetry award. Rankine's book on racial micro-aggressions was searing, and it seemed a win would potentially bring it to the attention of a broader audience. I was ecstatic when Jacqueline Woodson won for Brown Girl Dreaming. I tweeted about my excitement for her, and at home, I picked the book up and re-read it until I fell asleep.


When I woke up the next morning, I saw what I'd apparently missed the night before. After Woodson accepted the award, Daniel Handler — author of the popular Lemony Snicket series and the host of this year's award ceremony — said: "I told Jackie she was going to win, and I said that if she won, I would tell all of you something I learned about her this summer, which is that Jackie Woodson is allergic to watermelon. Just let that sink in your mind."


We forget how often carelessness is a kind of malicious behavior. Woodson was worth taking the time to consider if "the joke" would undercut her moment. She should not have to accept a National Book Award in one hand and Handler's apology in the other. She was worth the time it would take to come up with a joke that was less lazy. Her story deserved better. A writer's victory is also a victory for the many readers nourished by her work. Every brown girl watching, hoping, and writing deserved better.


Handler has since publicly apologized and donated $10,000 to the We Need Diverse Books campaign, with the promise to match up to $100,000. I'm not sure exactly how much racism is worth, but it's a price I'm tired of brown girls having to pay.


There is a passage in Brown Girl Dreaming where Woodson's beloved ill grandfather asks her to tell him a story. She writes, "This I can do — find him another place to be / when this world is choking him." Brown girls everywhere know what it means to choke with invisible hands at their throats, to drown with water nowhere in sight. For us, a book like Brown Girl Dreaming is air itself. When I found out about Handler's joke, I gasped, my lungs briefly useless.




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Saturday, November 22, 2014

18 Magical "Harry Potter" Themed Christmas Decorations

An enchanting way to add an extra touch of magic to the holidays.


"All I Want for Christmas is my Hogwarts Letter!" Pillow Cover


"All I Want for Christmas is my Hogwarts Letter!" Pillow Cover


Seriously, I am still waiting for mine. Maybe this year?


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A Quidditch Christmas Stocking


A Quidditch Christmas Stocking


Sadly it's not big enough for Santa to stick a Nimbus 2000 inside of it.


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Dumbledore Christmas Tree Ornament


Dumbledore Christmas Tree Ornament


This ornament would add a little bit of Hogwarts charm to any tree.


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Gryffindor House Tree Ornament


Gryffindor House Tree Ornament


Is there a better way to show off your house pride?


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My inner goddess swipes yes.



Fifty Shades of Grey


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15 Relatable Books All Twentysomethings Wish Existed

Nutella novella.


1. For those interested in learning more about the meaning of life.


1. For those interested in learning more about the meaning of life.


Submitted by - JJgirl.


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2. For a sexier version of your not-so-sexy favorite pastime.


2. For a sexier version of your not-so-sexy favorite pastime.


Submitted by - Christina.


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3. For answers to this burning question.


3. For answers to this burning question.


Submitted by - Caroline Qualey (Facebook.)


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Friday, November 21, 2014

The A Series of Unfortunate Events author has pledged to match donations for 24 hours up to $100,000 to We Need Diverse Books , an organization that promotes diversity in children’s literature.



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34 Books By Indian Authors That Everyone Should Read

India is amongst the largest and most diverse countries in the world – here are a few authors who have made the most riveting attempts at impossible task of capturing it.


Not Only The Things That Have Happened by Mridula Koshy


Not Only The Things That Have Happened by Mridula Koshy


Why you should read it: Not Only The Things That Have Happened tells the story of a mother who loses her son, and of how the boy becomes a man. The most engaging part of the novel is that it's told over a 36 hour period, in which time acts as a sort of narrator, taking us through decades and back.


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Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar.



Why you should read it: Cuckold is a novel based in 16th century India, dealing with the lives of a very powerful ruling family. The novel stands out among others like it because of its raw representations of sex and scandal. Nagarkar constructs a story that is ostensibly about love, but allows the reader to explore the internal struggle of a man when faced with betrayal, loss, and war.


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A House For Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul


A House For Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul


Why you should read it: Its protagonist, Mohan Biswas, is a classic anti-hero, simultaneously despicable and compelling.


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The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh.



Why you should read it: Ghosh brilliantly intertwines the traditions, cultures and histories of people from across the world, and paints a picture of a combined consciousness.


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These Portraits From Ed Sheeran's New Book Are Incredible

Stunning work by British artist Phillip Butah from Ed Sheeran: A Visual Journey .


Ed Sheeran: An Illustrated Journey is a new book that gives fans a behind the scenes look at Sheeran's life and music, with original artwork by his friend, Phillip Butah.


Ed Sheeran: An Illustrated Journey is a new book that gives fans a behind the scenes look at Sheeran's life and music, with original artwork by his friend, Phillip Butah.


Phillip says: "Coloured pastel on coloured paper. Ed is two years old; he has such innocence."


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An established artist in his own right, Butah was awarded The Prince of Wales’s Young Artists’ Award at 16, and studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins.


An established artist in his own right, Butah was awarded The Prince of Wales’s Young Artists’ Award at 16, and studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins.


Phillip says: "Coloured pastel on coloured paper. Ed's in a recording booth very early on here."


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In 2008, Butah was included in "The Powerlist: Britain's 100 most influential black people" and in 2009, he was commissioned to paint a portrait of Prince Charles.


In 2008, Butah was included in "The Powerlist: Britain's 100 most influential black people" and in 2009, he was commissioned to paint a portrait of Prince Charles.


Phillip says: "Coloured wax pastel on coloured paper. This is at Ed’s house, Ed had just done a radio interview on No Hats, No Trainers and we were listening to hip hop together."


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On working with Sheeran, Butah says: "I respect him so much. He has worked incredibly hard to get to where he is and he’s always remained so humble throughout."


On working with Sheeran, Butah says: "I respect him so much. He has worked incredibly hard to get to where he is and he’s always remained so humble throughout."


Phillip says: "Watercolour pen on paper. We were just chilling out and jamming at mine."


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Lemony Snicket Sparks Outrage With Offensive Comments

The A Series of Unfortunate Events author has come under fire for making racist jokes at the 2014 National Book Awards ceremony.



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Brown Girl Dreaming


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The 10 Most Popular Quotes From "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay"

“And if we burn, you burn with us!”



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17 Books For People Who Hate People

When you’re done reading, gift them to someone who could use the paper cuts.


"The fact that I killed this man. It's not going to change my life."



Tom Ripley grew up as an orphan and, bitter with his lack of a place in high society, kills a rich guy and steals his life. But the murders don't stop there, because two can only keep a secret if one of them is dead.


For: People who hate rich white boys in boat shoes.


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"Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural."



Becky Sharp gives you The Lady Eve realness as she cons her way through high society by seducing other women's men and swindling them out of their money.


For: An aspiring actor in Los Angeles.


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The Day I Stopped Believing In God

How learning about death changed everything.



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One day when I was 9 years old, I walked through my hometown wearing a white cotton T-shirt, handmade polyester pants meant to look like real jeans, and North Star runners. Everything felt good. I wasn't wearing socks or underwear. I couldn't feel any of my clothing. Nothing bothered me. I felt weightless, like I could walk forever, like I was a natural element, like wind, something that had always existed and always would. I didn't feel anything but the sunshine on my skin and pure joy, pure confidence in myself and in my world. I can't remember what happened that day before I started walking around town or why I felt so free. I just remember thinking everything was perfect, everything in life was perfect, and I fully belonged in the world, in that town, in those clothes, in my body.


By the end of the day I would stop believing in God but I didn't know it at the time.


At first I walked with my uncle Edward. He was very tall and had red hair. I had bumped into him by the feed mill. I was climbing down from the top of it and he was watching me with one hand on his hip and the other shielding his eyes from the sun because he was afraid I'd fall. A teenager had fallen from it, he said, and was paralyzed for life. He told me he was a "good man." He said it in German. That meant he'd been appointed by the church to help out a widow in town. He had to do good things for her, he said, fix things and help her budget her money.


I asked him what a widow was. I told him I'd never get married and he laughed.


"Do you want to bet?" he said.


I shook his hand and said yes, a million bucks.


I said good-bye to him and walked to Main Street. I waved at a lot of people and they all waved back because we all knew each other. I walked into the funeral home and saw old people gathered around a small coffin. I knew there was a little boy in there. I went to have a look and I touched his arm. His mother was my mother's friend. When they came to visit I'd run and hide because I didn't want to have to play with him. I pressed hard on his arm with my finger but he didn't flinch.



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Sorry for running away when you came to my house with your mom.


I didn't say it out loud but I knew that he was an angel now and could hear everything. I looked at him until a woman gave me a popcorn ball from her purse and told me to eat it outside on the sidewalk.


I was on my way to the old folks home to sing for Grace. She was the reason why I was walking around town. My mother was trying to do housework and wanted me out of her hair. She told me to go sing for Grace, like usual. When I got to the old folks home, I had popcorn stuck in my hair because I had eaten it in the wind. I walked to Grace's room. I walked past very old people in chairs. A woman called me by my mother's name.


Do a cartwheel, she said.


I did three in a row in the long corridor and the woman shook her head and wiped her eyes.


Grace lay in her bed and looked dead. She didn't open her eyes the whole time I was singing. I sang "Children of the Heavenly Father." I got bored in the middle of a verse because she wasn't smiling or reacting at all so I stopped and flicked the light off and on in her room but she still didn't do anything. I left her room and thought about telling someone that Grace had died but I was suddenly afraid that I'd be blamed for it. I walked outside into the sunshine; I had been breathing through my mouth so I wouldn't have to smell things inside, and ran on the giant spools of electrical cable that were stored in the empty lot next to the old folks home. If I worked hard I could get them to move like giant logs, like a log-rolling competition, all over the lot.


A man drove up in his car and asked me to stop rolling the spools of cable. I was standing on one, high above him, and I smiled and said OK. I jumped down and kept walking. I walked to the farm on the edge of town and Frank Klassen was standing in the driveway talking to his friend, Harold. I asked them what was up and Frank said, "Stillborn calf this morning, not pretty." Harold put his engineer cap on my head. I picked up stones from the driveway and asked them why.


"It happens," said Frank.


I asked Harold if I could keep his hat and he said sure, why not? I kept walking.




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Punk Icon Viv Albertine Shares Her Greatest Style Moments

The Slits guitarist’s new memoir, Clothes Clothes Clothes. Music Music Music. Boys Boys Boys., catalogs a life lived in style.


From 1978 to 1981, Viv Albertine was a part of the groundbreaking all-female punk band The Slits.


From 1978 to 1981, Viv Albertine was a part of the groundbreaking all-female punk band The Slits.


Which helped paved the way for later amazing all-girl bands, feminist-tinged pop, and Riot Grrl movements.


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The Slits, along with bands like the X-Ray Spex, The Raincoats, and Blondie, added a vital female voice to the often male-dominated punk world.


The Slits, along with bands like the X-Ray Spex, The Raincoats, and Blondie, added a vital female voice to the often male-dominated punk world.


Here's Viv (back row, center) with (clockwise from top left) Debbie Harry of Blondie, Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Pauline Black of The Selecter, Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex, and Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders.


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Fronted by 14-year-old dreadlocked spitfire Ari Up, The Slits released two albums in their short career: Cut and The Return of the Giant Slits.


Fronted by 14-year-old dreadlocked spitfire Ari Up, The Slits released two albums in their short career: Cut and The Return of the Giant Slits.


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You might be familiar with their incredible cover of Marvin Gaye's "Heard It Through the Grapevine."



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Here Are The 2014 National Book Awards Winners

The winners were revealed at the 65th National Book Awards ceremony.



Redeployment


The Penguin Press



Phil Klay


Redeployment takes readers to the front lines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos.


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Thursday, November 20, 2014

21 Books That Could Make The World A Better Place

If everyone read them.


Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall



"It is a great book about humanity, nature, and animals. We desperately need to get reconnected with this planet and with ourselves."

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Sold by Patricia McCormick



"To remind people how we take our freedoms and education for granted."
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Night by Elie Wiesel



"It's a first-person account of his real-life experience in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. It has a good ending and makes you reflect on how lucky our lives are."

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5 Reasons Why "Mockingjay - Part 1" Is The Darkest "Hunger Games" Movie Yet

The whole fight-to-the-death aspect of the first two Hunger Games films wasn’t exactly light, but in the franchise’s latest installment, which is out in theaters Nov. 21, things gets even more grim.


There's no more room for games.


There's no more room for games.


By the start of Mockingjay - Part 1 — which was directed by Francis Lawrence and covers roughly the first half of the final book in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy — the Games are over. Having been plucked out of the Quarter Quell arena by the rebel forces at the end of Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) has been thrown into the escalating struggle between the Capitol and the holdouts of District 13, which wasn't destroyed after all. What's grimmer than a televised tournament in which children fight to the death? Full-out warfare, including Katniss' hometown of District 12 being bombed to oblivion.


The Games, ghoulish as they were, provided a surreal pop focus to the previous two films in the Hunger Games franchise. Watching Katniss and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) struggle to make it through without becoming monsters, all the while playing up their parts as Panem's sweethearts, was exciting as well as horrific. There were rules to the Games, albeit ones that kept changing, and they were dressed up in pomp and ceremony in a way that was egregious but also darkly funny. Mockingjay - Part 1 may be even more pointed in its commentary about how media symbols are used, but without the poisoned candy of the Games, what's left is the bleakness that's always been underlying the story.


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The Rebellion has its own problems.


The Rebellion has its own problems.


The Rebellion may want to take down the Capitol and the malevolent President Snow (Donald Sutherland), but they're not quite the good guys. They live a tense existence into which Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Katniss' mother (Paula Malcomson), Katniss' sister Prim (Willow Shields), and even Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) have been integrated with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Dressed in uniforms and abiding by a military-like protocol, they stockpile weapons in the underground bunker into which they've retreated. In the name of being battle-ready, they're living as regulated a life as that in the Districts.


The head of the Rebellion, the steely President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore), had Katniss rescued for a reason, and it wasn't out of kindness. Coin wants her for essentially the same reasons that the Capitol wanted its tributes — she's a symbol to motivate the masses; only in this case, she's going to be used to push the Districts into outright war. Katniss is an eternally reluctant hero with understandable doubts about Coin and all people in power, but she agrees to be the face of the Rebellion in exchange for their promise to extract Peeta and the other hostages being held in the Capitol. She is, once again, playing a part, acting as the earnest figurehead of a regime that may not be trustworthy.


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The death count skyrockets.


The death count skyrockets.


In the first two films, the Games may have guaranteed the death of most of its participants, but they were still a controlled pageantry of "peace" — a ritual sacrifice of children that was a way for the Capitol to flaunt its dominance and make the Districts fight among themselves in the name of patriotism. But smaller protests building into outright warfare means more than 24 children are at risk, and Mockingjay - Part 1 doesn't skimp on the terrible costs of going up against a better-armed power. There are executions, bombings, and imagery like a field of charred human bones.


Katniss is in a position of rallying people to rise up for a cause she's only partially committed to, and yet being such a public part of the Rebellion means that, to her horror, death naturally follows in her wake. Lawrence has always been able to make Katniss' appeal as clear as it is unknowing, but she's particularly strong here in showing how much trauma Karniss is carrying with her, and how uncertain she is of the right thing to do.


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Peeta is a pawn in the propaganda war.


Peeta is a pawn in the propaganda war.


From the moment he was pulled into play-acting a romance with Katniss that he thought was real in the first film, Peeta's never exactly been in charge. But he's become an even more high-profile hostage for the Capitol in Mockingjay - Part 1, delivering undermining messages that the Girl on Fire's been tricked and is just causing more destruction by working with the agitators.


Katniss advises people to join the fight in propaganda videos shot by her new director, Cressida (Natalie Dormer). Peeta becomes her unwilling PR opponent in scripted interviews with Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci) in which, gaunt and stressed but dressed like he's headed to a party, Peeta recites the Capitol's agenda. He's a prisoner and is being used, but, the movie makes clear, so is Katniss, who poses in front of a green-screened battle for Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) until they realize it's her unaffectedness that's her best quality. She's sent out into the field like a reality TV star — like a celebrity — while Cressida and her crew follow, documenting her and using her like a commodity, the footage cut into snippets that are broadcast through the Districts.


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Which "Hunger Games" District Will You Be In?

Find out where you’d fall in Panem with our name generator.



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Here's What The "Harry Potter" Studio Tour Will Look Like Over Christmas

Spoiler: Gorgeous.



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Well, it's no different on the London studio tour.


Well, it's no different on the London studio tour .


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12 Charts All "Hunger Games" Fans Will Understand

Hungry? Have some pie chart.



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How Long Would You Survive The Hunger Games?

“I volunteer as tribute to take this quiz!”



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If You Like This Book By A Man, You'll Love This Book By A Woman

For the next time someone tells you they only like books by dudes. No excuses!



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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Which Book Would You Give Out For Free?

Students and celebrity authors alike shared their answers at today’s “Great Book Giveaway” .


Earlier today, Neil Gaiman and Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) gave out free books in Washington Square Park.


Earlier today, Neil Gaiman and Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) gave out free books in Washington Square Park.


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A line of people wrapped around the park, despite the early timing and freezing temperatures.


A line of people wrapped around the park, despite the early timing and freezing temperatures.


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