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Where you can starve to death in safety.
MAN. So much to say, but not enough time in the night to say everything. Since this is Tumblr, there were moments in the theater that would have made great GIFs. But of course, we had to leave our cameras outside of the theater.
Gary Ross brought Liam, Josh, and Jennifer out on stage before the movie started, and Jennifer came out behind the curtain too early and dashed back behind stage when she realized her mistake. THEN, when she came out and was walking to center stage to join Gary, Josh, and Liam, she tripped in a classic Jennifer way! Once Gary was done and the four of them were walking off stage, Josh did the cutest thing by pretending to step on Jennifer’s dress.
GAH I wish I had video of this but it’s only something in my head now. Of course there’s more I can and want to say, but I need to get up early tomorrow. So I’ll leave you with this!
I HATE YOU ALDRIN BUT IN A GOOD WAY! I’m so glad that you were able to go! AND I EXPECT AN EMAIL TOMORROW BECAUSE I NEED TO HEAR MORE!
Hunger Games Red Carpet Premiere Live Stream
It starts at 5:30PST so you have about 28ish minutes.
We’ll update this post with any other links and you can expect photos throughout the night.
My Rendition of Deep In The Meadow. (Better quality with harmonies).
-I backed myself up, yet again, and I think it came out pretty out well! I hope you enjoy this better version! Excuse some mistakes, especially with my harmonies haha, I did this in one take!
Deep In The Meadow:
Deep in the meadow, under the willow
A bed of grass, a soft green pillow
Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes
And when again they open, the sun will rise.Here it’s safe, here it’s warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when again it’s morning, they’ll wash away.Here it’s safe and here it’s warm
And here the daisies guard you from every harm
And here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.
SO PRETTY
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.
Thirteen years ago Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire on their classmates, killing thirteen people and injuring two dozen more. It wasn’t long before the finger pointing started: the musician Marilyn Manson, the video game Doom, the film ‘The Basketball Diaries,’ and Goth Culture all were blasted in the media as contributing factors.
Yesterday a seventeen year old kid walked into a high school in Ohio and shot five other kids.
Today, three of those five, Demetrius Hewlin, Russell King Jr., and Daniel Parmertor, are now dead.
Senseless, unfathomable violence at the heart of another American tragedy as a community and a nation again ask the same question: why?
Undoubtedly there will be much discussion of the motivation behind the crime in the coming weeks, and some of it will probably circle back to the topic of popular media and whether violent movies, music, and video games lead to violent behavior.
And in this cloud of mourning and questions, The Hunger Games, a book-turned-movie about the horror of kids killing kids, will premiere.
Fans of The Hunger Games already understand that the violence in the series is not glorified, that the message of the series is that such violence is wrong, and that even ‘necessary’ violence is still tragic. It’s always ugly, painful, and destructive.
Jennifer Lawrence said it best in her audition for Katniss Everdeen: when she kills, she’s not badass. She’s broken.
Unfortunately, there will be people out there, media pundits, politicians, parental groups, that will not take the time to understand The Hunger Games, and will instead latch onto it as another contributor to the American ‘culture of violence.’
As a country mourns the loss of three young people, we must take extreme care to be good ambassadors of a series that many may be questioning in the next weeks. Most Hunger Games fans already do this exceptionally well by engaging each other in dialogues about the political, social, and ethical messages in the books, by exploring these themes in fan fiction and fan art, and by taking the messages of anti-violence and equity to heart and working to better the world around them.
However, little of that will matter if there is even a (small) minority of fans misrepresenting and/or glorifying the violence. This includes everything from lamenting that a PG-13 rating won’t be explicit enough (no one should need to see the violence to feel the emotional impact of its aftermath) to off-handed comments about how ‘cool’ or ‘awesome’ it would be to a Tribute in the Games (it’s neither- that’s the whole point of the series, that there is no glory in violence).
Moving forward from this tragedy, please take the time to think about what you’re saying—what you’re wishing for—because today in Ohio there are three kids who will never speak or dream again and families and friends who are mourning their very real loss.
