A KENNEDYdate to Resistance.

The Hunger Games is technically organized homicide. So one cannot shake the feeling throughout or portions in the film that look, feel, and/or sound already as elaborate as it is improbable. Or so it's an unshared perception. While the story itself, of its stark story telling, a $307M (November 24th, 10:00am) hunger-satisfied box office cannot lie, again, maybe an unshared perception, Russovoir pinned the story to a metaphorical reality; the rich and poor pyramid of today.

We assume everyone figured out the subtle to the slow glaring to the nimble 'tradition' of The Capitol. Where the government has carte blanche by their own disillusioned set of laws to pose authority on which fear is what they feed on to stay atop the food chain. And everyone abides because, on the surface, who are we to question who sees, holds everything whereas each and every District knows only what they know, compounded by fear, compounded by nescience.

Now, the tributes.

"There's no one left that I love they can hurt."

Jennifer Lawrence was set aside for a while (picked up at the wedding gown scene) for this volatile vixen, Jena Malone as the District 7 tribute Johanna Mason (above). Axe-cellent casting. At first Russovoir thought hmm they picked someone comparatively shaded from fame and like lumber from which puts food on the tables of District 7, planted and unaffected by the mainstream, not too close to stagnate Lawrence's strong current of fame. But just like Johanna Mason's back story, who we recall appeared gullible and nonthreatening yet had won the killing spree, Malone killed the role and may seem moronic now, avenged the beloved character unwatered, until this film, in our heads.

"People are starving in 12 and, they make themselves sick here."

The concept of the trilogy, at least the two books, yet Russovoir is confident it's the entire trilogy because he has had read more than half of Mockingjay, is as remarkable as it is daunting how indicative and prevalent the oppression, oligarchy, despotism, and barely shown - yet - rebellion of the masses. The juxtaposition of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the worldwide premiere of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire dates was no mere coincidence; he had been a mockingjay.

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It was surreal Matthew McConaughey (below right) not in his usual macho shape. Russovoir wanted to scold him straight to the movie screen. It's as if he took the role against his will; to redeem himself; to prove himself, to his fans, something. Russovoir doesn't understand, cannot fathom in what state of mind he was in to morbidly shrink to a size unsightly. Meanwhile you're impressed by this. So bizarre it evokes an emotion, until now, still has no name. 

Dallas Buyers Club has become a powerful drug that once seen on the shelf in a video store, a rent selection in RedBox, an overstock at an interstate gas station, a random or chosen scene filler in an entertainment infomercial, a poster draped alongside the vertically spines-up arranged DVDs at if not deserted, single-minded shoppers supermarket, one's world stops for a full five seconds, eyes fixates - all else are a blur, and whisper, "McConaughey." with beaming recognition as epiphanic as the apple that fell on Isaac Newton.

He was inarguably, eye-gaping, mouth-shut remarkable. Russovoir is afraid that if he says anything more he might not hit the right words and spoil the praise. So let's move on and talk about Jared Leto now. The guy expanded once, then he emaciated next. Nobody really talked about, as he was Mr. Nobody in 2009 too, his massive, sorely weight gain in (and for) Chapter 27 (2007). The film was either poorly marketed, distributed, or didn't appeal to the palette of influential movie critics that affected those which alluded. After which Leto vowed not to gain a lardful for a role. Gain not lose. So he's an HIV positive gay hooker (below left); he was disease-alarmingly befitting.

"I don't want to die."

 

In the world of acting as a profession, not simply and conveniently all ingratiating roles and intuitive improvs and good looks, although while they are prevalent and necessary, it's the harmony, if one wants to go far in the industry one must be aware, of both the external (script memorization, filming procedure and location, e.g.) and the most challenging factor, internal (drastic weight gain, loss, and sculpt, sexual orientation and behavior, e.g.) where some roles demand of an actor; many of which, though not always effective, are admirable, critical, and premeditated symptoms of an award-winning actor from if not Oscar-worthy, a critically-sealed, must-watch film.

The Re-MELLARK-able Joshua Ryan Hutcherson.

"I have this dream that one day, my kid's gonna come home from school and be like, "Dad, there's this girl that I like, and there's this guy I like, and I don't know which one I like more, and I don't know what to do." And it'd just be a non-issue, like, "Which one is a good person? Which one makes you laugh more?" - Josh Hutcherson.

"I would probably list myself as mostly straight - right now, I'm 100% straight.", Hutcherson breaks the ice as opposed to the heat he emanates already. So regardless, the ice between them, interviewer Shana Krochmal of Out Magazine, has to melt anyway. Talentless in napkin origami at a California cafe during a seeming hunger games of a lunch hour, he accepted defeat and set it aside. "But who knows? In a fucking year, I could meet a guy and be like, "Whoa, I'm attracted to this person.", he unfolded instead with austere yet polite hand gestures, with which the Japanese art of paper folding seems a torture in retrospect - the napkin on the other side of the table wipes a mouth taken aback, though not malicious, with this choking spill.

He's most associated and most profitable as Peeta Mellark, one of the pair of tributes from District 12, love interest with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) but complicates as the games and Gale (Liam Hemsworth) may undercook the chemistry. But the recurring, almost a boomerang when one decides to let go already memory of 2005 - admit it, every time you see him all grown up and chiseled, how baked are we now to trace this once tousled but ferociously smitten 13-year old tike in Little Manhattan (below) is the tantalizing mold we see today.

"Love is a pain I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies."

Now when you're 15, you tend to cling on to people who had made you happy, even remember and keep track (in moderation) of their lives with the suppressible, hopeful belief, like making a wish on a comet, that they'll do it again. Hence it was reasonable: Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Bridge to Terabithia (2007), Firehouse Dog (2007), Fragments (2008), Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009), four-time Academy Award nominated The Kids Are All Right (2010), and the confusing Detention (2011), all checked. The Hunger Games trilogy, one could say, is now a pandemic, communal, kettle hissing glorification. That he so deserves.

"I'm ready for a fight."

Straights who support gay rights is like a wifi hotspot, it brings people together. Co-founder Avan Jogia (Nickelodeon's Victorious) of the non-profit organization Straight But Not Narrow (click it) allies with Hutcherson, among other young, famous personalities - tributes, shall we say - to educate and train, a polite euphemism, the toppling generation with gender equality. The NOH8 ad campaign (above) was Adam Bouska's plain yet powerful portfolio in 2008, and Hutcherson, with his fair amount of fame and influence, ennobled public hysteria.

"I would volunteer for my brother in a heartbeat."

The 21-year old $1.5M net worth American actor (The Hunger Games grossed $700M worldwide) has been raised justly, even where he was raised in isn't indicative of diversity nor adaptation. It only goes to underscore that Mewtwo (that's right, from Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back, 1998) is speaking gold (for a make believe children show):

"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."