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Last week, Jennifer Lawrence compared her upcoming movie, The Hunger Games, to Kim Kardashian’s divorce. Right. Yes. Good point! But last night, at the New York premiere, Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley compared The Hunger Games to the Occupy Wall Street movement. WHICH IS IT, GUYS? From Vulture:
“It’s the one percent [killing the kids],” he told us at the after-party at the Top of the Standard. “I think you’d have to be blind to not see that. I was shocked to see all that in there.”
“You know what was so funny? I was asking Zoe about that while we were watching it,” Badgley said. “I thought it was just going to be the games. But then I realized, and I thought, ‘If this doesn’t end in revolution, it’s irresponsible, because of everything it’s bringing up.’ If Katniss doesn’t become a fucking revolutionary, then I don’t know what they’re doing. And as it went on, I went, ‘Fuck! That’s what they’re doing!’ Which is cool.”
Good use of the words “funny” and “cool.” Once again, I am personally a little bit confused about how a broad and unfocused popular movement against the vague and undefined evils of capitalism is the same as CHILDREN MURDERING CHILDREN IN A HOLOGRAM OR WHATEVER, but, you know, I didn’t go to New York Stateiversity or get my novella published in the New Yorker or whatever else something something Dan Humphrey reference. I guess he is right and I am an idiot for not seeing that. OPEN YOUR EYES SHMEEPLE!
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Relax, Kelly. An analogy is just an idea wearing another idea’s hat. It’s all make-believe.
oh Britta!
I hope this is on purpose.
AHAHAHA THERE IS NO GABE ONLY KELLY KELLY KELLY
I said this on an earlier post and I want to repeat it here, now. I dont care for this Hunger game hype and want it to stop. The Battle Royale movie was not all that and that was ten years ago. Have we learned nothing since then? I will discontinue reading the internet if this hype machine continues.
And is it just me or in that one ultra ubiquitous tv ad when they have donald sutherland yell out “happy hunger games” he sounds like buffalo bill from silence of the lambs?
“Discontinue reading the internet”
EXPLAIN TO HOW DO THIS?!
Which one’s Donald Sutherland again? Is he a great big fat person?
You’re thinking of Christopher “Fat as Dee-Suth if not fatter” Walken
Would you prefer….the hugger games? That is just me chasing you around trying to hug you.
(Note: I am on medication that has made me feel quite drunk, particularly in the afternoon. Remember me as I was. Not drunk)
Guys, Steve Winwood wants us to stop talking about the hunger games so let’s just stop.
Read the books, Dan Humphrey. Fuck.
Sorry, didn’t mean to swear. That was an unnecessary use of profanity. But if Dan Humphrey is sooo big into reading, why didn’t he read the books. Ugh. Go back to Brooklyn!
Penn Badgley reading our comments:
‘Fuck! That’s what they’re doing!’ Which is cool.” – penn badgley first reading ann franke
Everyone knows that generally actors aren’t very smart, right? Everyone here has of course seen both seasons of Party Down multiple times because we have impeccable taste, and so we all remember how in the episode ‘James Ellison Funeral’ where Henry hilariously addresses how actors keep it simple as a rule of thumb because they’re not complex? That wasn’t absurdist comedy. That was funny because it was true.
Fishtibuns! I left an extra ‘where’ in that comment.
*SIGH* Pobody’s nerfect.
this is just very good political commentary.
Guys I haven’t read nor do I plan to read the Hunger games. Butt… I’m an analogy expert – I attended Phoenix online analogy university (yes that phoenix online analogy university!) – so let me take it upon myself to explain this one. It’s pretty simple when you think about it ha ha you’ll see:
First of all let’s get into exactly what the 1% refers to. Gabe you insist it’s something about Occupation: Wall Road, but there’s nothing in the above quote to suggest otherwise. It’s far safer to assume that whenever anyone brings up 1%, they are talking about 1% Low-Fat Milk. And as we all know, 1% low-fat milk is not good for kids. Kids need fat (see: Nutrition footnotes) but also in New Zealand, they are breeding cows specifically to give low fat milk. Is there a correlation between breeding low fat cows and mad cow disease??? I’ll let you be the judge (see: Cow Breeding footnotes) but I’ll make my opinion very clear: There is definitely a correlation.
So you see, when Penn says the 1% is killing kids, he’s not talking about some rich monocle’d and moustachio’d aristocrats. He’s referring to the milk!! “It’s in the milk. The nuclear poison is in the milk!!” – Jack Lemmon the China Syndrome
So back to these Hungry Games. Based entirely on the title and what I’ve heard about the book, it’s about hungry children in holograms who fight each other. OVER MILK?!! I think that’s implied by Penn’s analogy (see: analogy footnotes) He’s saying that the whole book is an allegory of how kids fight over milk, but in the end nobody wins, because the fat cats who run the milk industry (Louis Pasteur you SONOFABITCH) are profiteering from sick children.
Anyways, OPEN YOUR EYES SHMEEPLE, INDEED but open it instead on the milk industry and then open your mouth and tell everyone you know about the dangers of the 1%. “Stop occupying my fucking Honey-Nut O’s you fat cat sons of bitches!”
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I’m really glad he cleared this up for me. I thought it was just a teen romance set in a post-apocalyptic world. Now I know that the author was writing specifically about Occupy Wall Street movement even though she wrote it before it started. And even though you could read almost any metaphor into it like religion or something like religion like I don’t know, the politics of Gossip Girl and how Lonely Boy represents the 1%.
In all seriousness, he does sound pretty dopey but he’s not totally off-base. A big chunk of the Hunger Games books is about how awful the “Capitol” (where all the rich people live) is and how they’re all obsessed with money and status and appearance to an absurd degree, while everyone else in the country is dirt poor and has to put up with the Capitol’s bullshit 24/7. So that’s where comparisons like that are coming from.
Like I would ever consider listening to anything serious coming from someone that looks as disheveled as him.
So if the hungry hungy games are the occupy wall street movement watching Kim Kardashian’s divorce proceedings what is Gossip Girl?
That’s one secret I’ll never tell.