EXCLUSIVE: Quote from Sci Fi Magazine’s Interview with Gary Ross
Today Mockingjay.net and three other fansites are happy to bring to you a first look at the cover of the April issue of Sci Fi magazine, which features Katniss and Peeta! Here’s an exclusive quote from the article by Tara Bennett from Gary Ross on the point of Katniss Everdeen:
“[In the film] I think it would have been a mistake to split the narrative apart and get out of Katniss’ point of view. Obviously we have the ability to cut away and do that, more than anything in the Game Center. I think the largest departure from the book was that Katniss imagines many times how the Gameskeepers must be messing with her and wonders what they’re doing to manipulate the arena. We have the ability to actually cut to them doing that as we don’t have the ability to shoot inside Katniss’ head and express those things. It was a logical choice to actually film that and imbue that action with the actual locations and how the Gameskeepers are behaving. We can’t shoot in her head but we can film their actions so probably within the Game Center that was the largest departure that we made.”
The issue is set to hit newsstands on February 14 and you can get your hands on a copy by subscribing to Sci Fi magazine or by picking up a copy at your local Barnes & Noble.
Actually, hold on, there’s one more way you can get your hands on a copy! Sci Fi has given us some copies and we’ve got an extra one to give away. Comment here to win it! All you have to do is tell us what part of the Hunger Games series has always screamed science fiction to you. Is it the glorious, sparkling Capitol city with its fashion-obsessed citizens? Is it the stunning advances in medical technology revealed at the end of the first book? Or has dystopian fiction in general always just felt like science fiction to you?
Winner will be chosen at random at the end of the week.
Definitely the muttations. No wait. The hovercraft. I mean, they’re invisible and they have this current that freezes you in place. If that’s not Sci Fi I don’t know what is.
I think the part that sounded sci fi to me was the hovercrafts, and the Gamemaker obstacles in the arena. When I started reading The Hunger Games, I had the impression it was set back in the day until I got up to the part about the hovercrafts. Then I learned about the things the Gamemakers put in the arena, and it felt really sci-fi and futuristic.
I think the Sci-Fi element in The Hunger Games would have to be the story itself. It’s a post-apoctalyptic, dystopian world, with twelve district, most of which are extremely poor to the point where they’re starving, yet there’s a luxurious city, The Capitol, that has so much futuristic, advanced technology, with an odd, yet sophisticated fashion sense. The contrast between these to, and the allowance of The Hunger Games, is science fiction in itself.
I truly believe that comentee’s are forgetting the most important aspect of Panem that makes this book/movie franchise sci-fi: Post Apocalyptic!
The world of panem is based upon the remains of a world once forgotten, and as defined by book genres, this classifies as Sci-Fi! But not only that, the technology developments in the trilogy contributes new theories into the Sci Fi genre. The bow Katniss recieves in book three; voice activated. The muttations of the dead tributes in Book 1: Mutts with tribute eyes and brains.
And Yes, there is the point of hover crafts. I too believe these to be Science Fiction, being depicted as glossy Ufo’s, hovering around clawing up escapees.
So yes, the film is Sciene Fiction. But its a hybrid. It has many different elements.. And above all: its a movie! So enjoy it! I know I will!
I have to say, the parts in the book that scream sci-fi have to be all the mutated beasts; the muttations, the jabberjays and the tracker jackers
For me, the first “sci-fi” impression was the awesome shower Katniss first uses in The Hunger Games, with the hundreds of buttons with really cool options. Like blow-dry your hair in a matter of seconds, after which it “falls around [your] shoulders in a glossy curtain.”
Of course the really obvious sci-fi elements are the applied speculative fiction, like the muttations and the hoovercrafts.
I think the thing that is most sci-fi is the Capitiol shower. I mean, come on, who wouldn’t want a shower that gas over a hundred buttons for shampoos and soaps and dries AND parts your hair when you put your hand on a box. Every time iread that bit I go into shock and have dreams about a world where hairbrushes and knotty hair and blowdryers didn’t exist. And love it. I just thunk it’s so amazing and I can’t wait for when someone actually invents that and makes my dreams come true.
Sorry the anon one was me I forgot to put my name in because I’m quite dipsy
The muttations from the Capitol and the weird fashion from the Capitol, especially in the third book when they are hiding in an underwear store and the lady hiding them has done so much to her physical appearance to look like a cat. To imagine that and the whole scene of the Capitol is just weird.
Pretty much everything that could be in the Hunger Game Arena. Its all quite scary and crazy.
I think the part that was the most sci-fi like to me is the hover crafts and the capitol muttations
The part of the book that seemed most sci-fi to me was the medical technology they had! How could the go from mal-nurished, beat up, and bruised to being completely back to normal! And just from an IV-type machine! It just doesn’t seem possible!!
I honestly think the most science-fiction parts of the books come down to the technologies in the Capitol- the medicine, the devices and vehicles, even food! We’re nowhere near CLOSE to these advancements today.
Hmmm i think that The part of The hunger games that screamed science ficction was The The capitol had, which The one they created new medicene and olso The mutes, like The mockingjays…
I considered the innovations created by the Capitol to be really science fiction. A single wave straightens your hair. Food with the push of a button. The hovercrafts obviously. All of the crazy techy things they created.
I think it’d just the dystopian, harsh, and highly-impossible world that screams science-fiction to me.
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