Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Hunger Games

by Manda♥
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By now, most fans of the books have seen the movie, and I hope they all liked like I did, and most of us know what the movie poster looks like. Especially here in Melbourne, it seems to be on every bus stop!
I feel that this poster really represents the tone of the movie - ominous. But what if the movie had been marketed and directed differently? Then perhaps we would have seen the below posters on every bus stop. These were designed over at Entertainment Weekly. I have chosen my favourites below :)

If the movie had been directed by Christopher Nolan, we might have seen this:
 
My favourite thing about this one is: Brunette Actress as Katniss, demonstrating how sterotypically male are Nolan's films?
 This is Alfred Hitchcock's version of the Hunger Games. This is probably my favourite (im)poster.

 Ahhh Michael Bay, possibly even more sexist than Nolan. Why would one bother seeing a film that has a fully clothed female at all times? Because they wouldn't right? I do like the little twist of the title - the Rise of the Tributes.

One thing to notice in all these posters is their casting of Haymitch. This one has Steve Buscemi, which would be interesting, but not at all correct.

Oh Peter Jackson. I do love how they sneak Orlando Bloom in here and that he would play Katniss!!!! And of course, since it is a Peter Jackson film, there must be Andy Serkis in it. I actually think he wouldn't be a half bad Haymitch, but I always see Andy Serkis as his gay character in 13 Going on 30 whenever he is on film, because every other time, it is just image capture!

 This is one is for the imagining of the Hunger Games if it was directed by Roger Corman, of Little Shop of Horrors fame. I liked this one because of the comic book look.
 Obviously this is Woody Allen's. Because his humour is often dark, it is interesting how it claims Hunger Games will be a comedy. And look who is playing Haymitch? Woody Allen! So so so wrong :P
This is one of my favourites in the way they play with the style of a Nancy Meyers film. Alec Baldwin as Haymitch would make a hilarious SNL skit. But would make a terrible movie!
 This one cracks me up. Directed by Garry Marshall, it is a direct reference to New Years Eve. The tagline makes me laugh, I'm not going to lie. Hector as Haymitch wouldn't be horrible but I just think of him as his role in Princess Diaries!
And then last but not least is a Disney version. I could see it being made into a Disney/Pixar movie and being depicted as very different from the books. It would be simialr to how they have used many other fairy tale stories and deviated quite strongly from the original source material. I do like the casting of Haymitch here with John Ratzenberger, seeing as there cannot be a Pixar movie without him these days!

So there you go, a little (im)poster work! Just a way to celebrate the success of the Hunger Games movie

Manda

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Monday, March 26, 2012

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Okay this isn't a post about a yummy Chicken Dinner but it is still about winning!

My Mr Men & Little Miss Cross Stitching project raised 21 pounds for Sport Relief! Yay!!!!! I also purchased something very pretty:
It is a beautiful flower brooch that was handmade with Cath Kidston and Laura Ashley fabrics by a lady called Louise Howe. I bought it for 26 pounds, which is roughly $40 Aussie dollars.

Cannot wait to get in the mail!

In the meantime, these are the things I'm loving online at the moment:

1.) Laceaffair.com
I found this website last night and am already in love with several dresses and a bag!

2.) Instagram



So I don't have an iPhone - shock horror :P - but I have an iPod Touch and I'm loving messing around with Instagram!

Here are my shots:
http://statigr.am/viewer.php#/user/26296345/

3.) Draw Something! 
So I know everyone and everyone and their mother are playing this right now but I'm obsessed right now.

Sadly not my drawing :)

4.) 52 Suburbs Around the World
I love my travel blogs that I follow and this mixes my favourite things together - Photography and Travel!
Here is the description by the author/photographer:
I’m Louise Hawson and in 2012, I’m going to explore and photograph the ‘unfamous’ side of some of the world’s most famous cities – their suburbs – and share what I discover in weekly posts on this blog. My eight year old daughter, Coco, will be coming along for the ride, as will you I hope, in a virtual, vicarious kind of way.

5.) Hunger Games!
I saw the movie yesterday and I really liked it. I'm not one for writing movie reviews, or reading them for that matter. But I really like the subtle touches, such as Prim tucking in her duck tail when her name is drawn at the reaping. It was a very well made movie, so I believe it stands on it's own, seperate from the book series.
I am a relative new comer to the series - having only read the books this past January, so even though the events of the books were fresh in my memory, there were not many major parts I felt that were left out of the movie.
You should go see the movie if you like movies and/or if you like the books :)

Ciao,
Manda

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