Okay, so normally on this blog, I am talking about something philosophical or political in some way. It's usually serious stuff, right?
Well, this time, I thought I would do something a little different for once--something fun and slightly satirical, I suppose.
I've recently become a huge fan of the Hunger Games trilogy because of it's political message and it's criticism of war and reality television. There's a good message in this trilogy.
However, I find it annoying that some people lump this in with the Twilight saga. Now, if you like Twilight, that's you're thing and I'm cool with that. But I do not believe that The Hunger Games are even remotely similar to one another. Yes, there is a romance story in it, but the similarities end there.
In fact, I have been playing a video game lately that has more similarities to the Hunger Games than Twilight does. It's called Jet Set Radio Future. Now for those of you who know what I am talking about, I know what you're thinking--how is a Japanese futuristic cartoon video game about roller blading similar to Hunger Games? Well, they are far from the same, of course, but there are more similarities than there are with Twilight.
For starters, Jet
Set Radio Future takes place in the future (so does Hunger Games) when
people are being oppressed (like in the Hunger Games) by a greedy and
power hungry antagonist (again, like in the Hunger Games) and you have
to compete (another similarity to the Hunger Games--competition) with
other skaters in street challenges. There are police/military forces in JSRF called the Rokakku Police and the Golden Rhino gang that are used to stomp out rebellion. The Hunger Games has this as well--the Peacekeepers. In the end, you defeat the
greedy power hungry leader (like at the end of Mockingjay).
Are
there difference between Jet Set Radio Future and the Hunger Games? Yes, many differences, in fact! For instance, JSRF is a cartoon video game about roller blading in
the streets of a futuristic Tokyo while spraying graffiti. The Hunger Games is a book and a live action movie that takes place in a post apocalyptic North America where everyone is a slave to the rich people that live in the Capitol. In Jet Set Radio Future, you defeat your opponents by tagging them with spray paint (which might cause some skin irritation). In the Hunger Games, you kill your opponents. In JSRF, you listen to the broadcast of a pirate radio station playing quirky techno dance music (and some rock and hip hop). In the Hunger Games, you are forced to watch TV when the government tells you. In JSRF the
oppressive power hungry establishment is a mega-corporation called the
Rokakku Group, while in the Hunger Games it's a totalitarian government ruled from a Utopian city in the Rocky Mountains. In JSRF, you defeat the main antagonist, Rokakku Gouji, at the
end of the game in this strange acid-trip level by, you guessed
it, spray painting him, while he is controlling a giant robotic suit. And taking out that one guy with spray paint is the end of it all and you save the day. In the Hunger Games trilogy, it takes thousands of people and an all out-civil war led by an underground autonomous district to topple the oppressive regime, and it takes more than some cans of spray paint and roller blades to do it!
Twilight
has so little in common with The Hunger Games it's like comparing
grapes to Jovian planets--not really any similarities.
Comparing Jet
Set Radio Future to the Hunger Games is like comparing grapes to
watermelons--not too many similarities, but a few small ones.
My point is that the Hunger Games has more in common
with a Japanese cartoon video game about futuristic roller blading in
Tokyo than it does with Twilight!
I believe I have made my case.
What do you think?
Concerning Myself
- Handy Andy
- I'm not a journalist, I am a thinker. I share my thoughts with the world and present them as they are. You don't have to agree, I'm not trying to pass off my thoughts as the truth, but simply a view. Think about them and question them. Don't blindly believe what I or anyone else might tell you. Research for yourself and seek the truth with your own mind. Thank you.
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