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you send a Katniss, which they did, hence another round of Hunger Games. She’ll look heroic, she’ll social order) and simultaneously there alongside the Gotham PD, counter to my own political and social views was produced by , a small inde- perform badassly, and nothing will change, which it didn’t, which is why even though she won the first (thus is the power of storytelling). And, maybe more tellingly, I can find myself there inWorld War But those crowds of people, now past recognition pendent production house founded by , in co- movie there was a second movie.”3 operation with Lions Gate Entertainment. in PERPETUUM Z: one of the mob of hungry flesh-eaters, stripped of humanity and surging over the walls of order and maybe past life itself, afflicted with a terrible in a flood of chaos. disease and a terrible hunger, that swarm over the From 1998-2006 Jacobson worked at Disney Stu- was standing towards the back of the crowd, stage right. There was an aisle down the middle of the audience walls of Jerusalem in World War Z, climbing en masse “The sleight of hand of such movies is that it presents an entirely different society (full totalitarianism) dios, developing scripts and overseeing film pro- I and all of the girls were on the other side of the aisle, and all the boys were on my side of the aisle and we This is the most accurate identification: I, an audience member, a viewer, am not to over the stone parapets — they are the masses: the in the context of TODAY, in the context of narcissism as expected, as ok, so meaningless acts become duction. In June of 2006, Jacobson was PARTIAL LIST OF FILMS SUPPORTED BY US Man of Steel. Directed by Zack Snyder. Burbank, CA: were all dressed up as nicely as we could and no one was happy to be there standing in the sun and mud. I was “There’s a storm coming...You and tired, the poor, the homeless huddled masses. exciting and meaningful acts are obscured. Huh, Mags fired, losing her position as Walt Disney GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Warner Bros. Pictures, 2013.* your friends had better batten identify with the leading man, the ex-military man called in for one last job, or with Motion Pictures Group President, receiv- there when she volunteered — you were too, right? We were there when they called out Prim’s name and there down the hatches, because when the scientists struggling to find a cure or with the rag-tag groups of people who have The zombie is not, here, a They are coming for us, we realize: they are fighting their way blew herself up with poisoned gas. Ah well, she was old. ing notice of her termination from studio Act of Valor. Directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Pearl Harbor. Directed by Michael Bay. Burbank, CA: was this wave of sadness because she was so young, and then some flash of confusion and Katniss stepped out Waugh. West Hollywood, CA: , Buena Vista Pictures, 2001.‡ it hits, you’re all going to wonder somehow survived. I am a zombie: a mindless consumer, eating whatever I can find, manifestation or represen- towards something better, fighting to take what we have. Chairman . Jacobson was, and 2012.* of the crowd and not many people knew her before, but afterwards everyone everywhere knew her. how you ever tation of the animalistic in is, well respected around Hollywood, and her firing The Perfect Storm surging forward, growing and threatening the falsely imposed order of the military- But in totalitarianism, there are no individual acts — that’s . Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. She’s right, of course. The thought you us, but a depiction of what we, even in an “economic came as something of a surprise, coming just as Disney’s Pi- Air Force One. Directed by Wolfgang Peterson. Culver Burbank, CA: Warner Bros. Pictures, 2000.‡ the whole point of the totalitarian structure, that’s what it wants, what it wants you to become. Your storm hits and Gotham City could live so entertainment complex. Basically, I am a nobody: a face in a crowd of consumers with downturn,” what we who sit at the top of the world rates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest was smashing records. City, CA: , 1997.‡ I was there also when she won. I was there when the fighting started in the Districts, when we held our fingers becomes a terrorist strong- 4 Race to Space. Directed by Sean McNamara. Manhat- large and leave no agency or effect on the system other than annoyance. think of those beneath us: those who work endless acts appear personal and individualized but conform beautifully, they are no threat.” Following her dismissal from Disney, Jacobson founded Color hold and everyone is left to Force, beginning work on projects by the end of that same year.1 Apollo 13. Directed by Ron Howard. Universal City, tan Beach, CA: Brookwell McNamara Entertain- up in salute, and when we flipped over the tables and spilled the grain into the dirt and started bashing in the so little for the shifts in factories assembling consumer electronics ment, 2001.‡ hide in their homes in fear as CA: , 1995.‡ polices’ masks with stones and broken lumber. for pennies a day. their money — and power — is rest of us.” When I say, in relation to The Hunger Games, that we, as an audience, are “allowed” to There is no individual: there is only the crowd. There is only the total mass of the governed body, and a few In 1995, while working at Disney, Jacobson and film director Armageddon. Directed by Michael Bay. Burbank, CA: The Right Stuff. Directed by Philip Kaufman. Bur- stripped away. Alternatively, standing over them all, as icons. This is why, maybe, I identify. Often, in my daily life, I feel like an outsider; as Bruce Cohen founded Out There, an organization dedicat- Buena Vista Pictures, 1998.*‡ bank, CA: Warner Bros., 1983.‡ witness representations of social rebellion in the form of popular cinema, I mean just that: “al- The masses. She gave us a figurehead: someone to look up to, to focus on. She became, somehow, a hero — a real hero, a one could align with Bane lowed.” There is a long history of collusion between the United States Military, Pentagon and CIA if I somehow don’t belong to any of the social groups that someone else, some other outsider, might identify ed to helping “‘gay and lesbian organizations get support Rules of Engagement. Directed by William Friedkin. — a terrorist, sure, but also from gay Hollywood.’ Members of ‘Out Bat*21. Directed by Peter Markle. Culver City, CA: Tri- popular hero, a folk hero — a hero for the people, of the people, who wouldn’t compromise her idealism for any- me with. I feel isolated from my peer community, forever circling the periphery of some The Hunger Games Star Pictures, 1988.‡ Hollywood, CA: , 2000.† perhaps a leader of a popu- and the entertainment industry, including film, television and videogame production. Each branch of the There’ met once a month to launch po- one and who would fight for the people within a broken and oppressive system. lar uprising, or, at least, a fig- United States Armed Services, as well as the Central Intelligence Agency, has some form of “Entertainment un-identifiable thing. Does, then, my identification with the disenfranchised masses as BUDGET: $78,000,000 litical initiatives and to discuss the sta- Battle Cry. Directed by Raoul Walsh. Burbank, CA: Sands of Iwo Jima. Directed by Allan Dwan. Holly- urehead: a face to represent represented by these films: the zombie horde, the rioters, the everyman flinging stones US OPENING WEEKEND GROSS: $152, 535, 747 tus of civil rights for gays and lesbians.”2 Warner Bros., 1955.† wood, CA: Republic Pictures, 1949.† the working man, the work- Liaison” office, dedicated to working with entertainment producers on approved projects. These agencies It’s a story I feel like I’ve been told before, but it doesn’t matter, because this time it’s real. We, the oppressed, be- against a rushing tide of dress blues — does this identification correspond to some in- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Speed 2: Cruise Control. Directed by Jan de Bont. Los ing woman. A masked visage offer their services and personnel, at the taxpayers’ expense, to, in the words of the U.S. Air Force Office of Generally speaking, it seems that Jacobson Battle: . Directed by Jonathan Liebes- BUDGET: $130,000,000 man. Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 2011.*† Angeles, CA: 20th Century Fox, 1997.* gan to rise against our oppressors. The military police were already there, of course, waiting to squash whatever that’s willing to take a forced Public Affairs, “ensure that projects highlighting the missions and members of the Air Force are plausible stinctive desire to belong? It may be a manifestation of that wish to be a part of a group, is motivated, in part, by progressive politics, fight we could begin, but still —. We could feel it. Something was building and the fires were beginning to burn. occupation of the Gotham to feel connected and supported — to look to my left and right and feel at one with those US OPENING WEEKEND GROSS: $161,125,000 though she acknowledges the influence of Battleship. Directed by Peter Berg. Universal City, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Directed by Leonard Stock Exchange trading floor and realistic,” and “to project and protect the image of the United States Air Force within the global enter- 1 capital/Capitol. CA: Universal Pictures, 2012.* Nimoy. Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, 1986.* and erase the divisions of tainment environment.” around me, to be strengthened in pursuit of a cause and to give myself over to it. World War Z BUDGET: $190,000,000 Stealth. Directed by Rob Cohen. Culver City, CA: Co- The class strata are clearer every day: we are on the bottom, and they are on the top, accumulating ever more the haves and the have-nots Jacobson said, “As a movie, we always try to Behind Enemy Lines. Directed by John Moore. Los US OPENING WEEKEND GROSS: $66,411,834 Angeles, CA: 20th Century Fox, 2001.† lumbia Pictures, 2005.* wealth and power. Those that have have too much — anything they could possibly need or want right there (theoretically, at least, though For example, the creative team behind Terminator: Salvation, released in 2009, was provided with support from I’ve never been to a protest. I’ve never marched on City Hall or carried a sign. I’ve never be on the side of the Districts in our storytell- within reach, so that they never have to leave their seat. Those that need, have almost nothing: not enough we know it’s always just a re- sat-in or walked-out. I watched Occupy unfold through a computer screen while travel- ing. But let’s not let ourselves off the hook: Black Hawk Down. Directed by Ridley Scott. Culver Stripes. Directed by Ivan Reitman. Culver City, CA: distribution). We watch the the U.S. Air Force including “technical assistance; Location filming at Kirtland AFB, NM; Utilized CV-22, A-10, The Dark Knight Rises We all have plenty of Capitol in us...It means Columbia Pictures, 1981.* City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 2001.*‡ food, not enough medicine. We are dirty. We work hard and we sweat. We are taxed, heavily, and kept in debt to people rise and we watch the C-130 aircraft and the HH-60 helicopter in scenes; Utilized the mobile “MASH” hospital unit; Air Force Personnel ing through New York City on my way upstate. I identified, though, with the protesters, as BUDGET: $250,000,000 so much to me that these books are so po- Batman rise and we watch the 2 US OPENING WEEKEND GROSS: $160,887,295 The Bourne Identity. Directed by Doug Liman. Uni- The Sum of All Fears. Directed by Phil Alden Robin- a vicious social machine. We are human and we manage to adapt, and get by. as extras.” they were swept bound and gagged off of the streets — though I identified from litical, and that you could have something versal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 2002.* son. Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, 2002.*‡ police rise and we sympathize a distance. I could say, “Yes, I am the 99%,” and I could feel rage at the brutality that’s so popular but that also really means much with the Gotham police Terminator Salvation something and really speaks to our times. The Core. Directed by Jon Amiel. Hollywood, CA: Par- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Directed by Jona- We (I) identify. department, as mired in poli- The Hunger Games is not currently listed on any of the U.S. military film “portfolio” pages accessible to the pub- exercised by police forces as they tried to suppress the protest. I could feel at BUDGET: $200,000,000 And what is wrong with us on so many lev- amount Pictures, 2003.‡ than Mostow. Burbank, CA: Warner Bros. Pictures, tics as they are, much more US OPENING WEEKEND GROSS: $42,558,390 2003.‡ lic. This fact of omission is not, however, proof of un-involvement. It seems likely that the film did not receive one with the people, though I did not go into the streets myself. I did not march, els. Whether it’s our obsession with celebrity than we do with their real- Merrill Lynch is now a sub- Devil Dogs of the Air. Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Bur- We (I) are a part of this struggle. carry a sign or post a #99% #selfie. I only watched. or our casual relationship to violence. The growing gap between bank, CA: Warner Bros., 1935.† Terminator Salvation. Directed by McG. Burbank, CA: world counterpart, the NYPD, production support from the U.S. military simply as it does not feature conventional military personnel, actions rich and poor. And the degree to which all of the bread and cir- sidiary of Bank of America, Warner Bros. Pictures, 2009.‡ who, as we know from cover- or vehicles. However, with the evidence of general involvement and interest by the United States military and cus stuff distracts us from the very real work we have to do so- though at the time of the The DI. Directed by Jack Webb. Burbank, CA: Warner We (I) are implicated. age of the Occupy protests Occupy became, in a sense, just another story. Crowds convened less than a mile away from my apart- cially to be better. I worry, like, financing deal with Tomorrow Never Dies. Directed by Roger Spottis- government agencies in the production of entertainment, and an understanding and influence over how that In 2007, signed a financ- Brothers, 1957.* and subsequent camp-ins, when will I ever get a chance to Summit Entertain- woode. Beverly Hills, CA: Pictures, entertainment might shape public perception of military action, it could be deduced that other factions of the ment in Portland. They practiced passive resistance on the campus of the University of California at ing deal with Merrill Lynch, giving the studio ac- 1997.‡ are primarily a tool of oppres- work on something that manages ment it was an in- Eagle Eye. Directed by D. J. Caruso. Universal City, We (I) cheer them on. 1 CA: DreamWorks Pictures, 2008. ‡ sion. U.S. government, and other government agencies around the globe, indeed do have a vested interest in the Davis, my own alma mater, where a police officer hosed students in the face with pepper spray. I cringed and got to be both so beloved and popular cess to $1 billion dollars in financing. dependent wealth Top Gun. Directed by Tony Scott. Hollywood, CA: Par- and so genuinely meaningful?”3 management com- films and other multi-media franchise entertainments produced by the industry. angry, but still it remained a story. I could watch, through the screen, and feel for a moment as if I belonged to 1 Tim Swanson, “Summit Entertainment’s $1 Billion The Enemy Below. Directed by Dick Powell. Los Ange- amount Pictures, 1986.* But I do sympathize with the Actor Woody Harrelson, who portrays the vet- pany. Merrill Lynch We (I) demand freedom! The 9/11 truth move- something, belonged to some movement of the people, though it, too, was a vicarious bucking of the system. Deal,” Upstart Business Journal, April 19, 2007, accessed les, CA: 20th Century Fox, 1957.* redistribution of wealth, the eran combatant and mentor, Haymitch Aberna- is headquartered in Tora! Tora! Tora! Directed by Richard Fleischer. Los ment, or “Truthers,” is March 8, 2014, http://upstart.bizjournals.com/views/blogs/ thy, in The Hunger Games films, is a self-identified New York City, occu- Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag. Directed by Ste- Angeles, CA: 20th Century Fox, 1970.*† return of power to the people On its surface, The Hunger Games is not clearly a pro-military — or even a pro-government — itself an organization the-hollywood-deal/2007/04/19/summit-entertainments- anarchist,1 and a staunch advocate of drug-policy phen Low. Mississauga, Ontario: IMAX Corpora- We (I) demand just labor laws and just pay! rather than a corrupt police film. It would seem that the film, and several of the people involved in its production, are striv- seeking to root out When it comes down to it, we start to see or feel that everything is a tool of the total governing system. We in 1-billion-deal.html pying the entirety of Transformers. Directed by Michael Bay. Universal reform2 and the 9/11 truth movement.3 tion, 2004.‡ force and a landed aristoc- cover-ups and govern- the Four World Financial Building at City, CA: DreamWorks Pictures, 2007.*‡† ing to produce a work denouncing many of the structures defining contemporary society: the the United States live under a democracy, sure, and we have some small say in the choices made by our govern- racy. Of course, Bane is totally ment malfeasance — 250 Vesey Street in Lower Manhattan. The Final Countdown. Directed by Dan Taylor. Bev- We (I) demand to have our basic human needs met, and we (I) demand that we not be ignored while the rich sit insane, and the 1 Caitlin McDevitt, “Woody Harrelson: I’m an ments, sure, so I can’t rightly say that we’re living under a totalitarian regime — not when very real crimes and In 2008, following the Financial Crisis, Transformers II: Revenge of the Fallen. Directed by wealth gap; divisions of class and race; the glo- a conspiracy group, erly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1980.* There are a great many tools of oppression in anarchist,” Politico, May 31, 2013, accessed March 8, 1 Claudia Eller, “Disney Fires Film Production President,” Los Merrill Lynch agreed to be acquired Michael Bay. Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, in their plush chairs and grow richer and more decadent. ultimate threat is really, it would seem violence against a citizen population are being carried out elsewhere. But despite our freedom, it does feel that rification and spectacle of violence (of course, in 2014, http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2013/05/ Angeles Times, July 19, 2006, accessed March 8, 2014, http://articles. Firefox. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Burbank, CA: 2009.*‡ an act of terror- by Bank of America, with woody-harrelson-im-an-anarchist-165139.html — and perhaps this es- our small choices mean nothing: that “there are no individual acts...[our] acts appear personal and individual- latimes.com/2006/jul/19/business/fi-disney19 Warner Bros., 1982.‡ ism: the detona- the world. Popular film is in fact one of them. criticizing violence, violence is depicted, though a full merger taking place 2 “Woody Harrelson: ‘We’re All Drug Addicts,’” say is, also, a conspir- 2 Gillian Gillers, “Film producer discusses gays in Hollywood,” Transformers III: Dark of the Moon. Directed by Mi- We revolt. We smash things. We try to damage the infrastructure that has been slowly and steadily built up tion of a nuclear device in an the horrors of witnessing children forced to kill children is muted by theatricality, special ef- ized but conform beautifully, they are no threat.” in 2013. Starpulse.com, September 4, 2009, accessed March acy rag — what else Yale Daily News, October 1, 2003, accessed March 8, 2014, http:// Flags of Our Fathers. Directed by Clint Eastwood. chael Bay. Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, around us for hundreds or thousands of years. We scream, and bang our heads against the wall. urban center, and thousands 2011.° fects, and the ethics of friendly competition). 8, 2014, http://www.starpulse.com/news/index. is there to do at this yaledailynews.com/blog/2003/10/01/film-producer-discusses-gays- Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, 2006.† The losses Merrill Lynch incurred in of citizens would be killed php/2009/09/04/woody_harrelson_we_re_all_drug_ point? Is it possible to We can watch, on YouTube, as a war breaks out in the Ukraine between a citizen population and a militarized in-hollywood/ Fly Away Home. Directed by Carroll Ballard. Culver United 93. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Universal We get a sliver of hope, as cracks just barely start to show. and, probably, addicts_ criticize mega-media police force, and we can say, “Yes! Power to the people!” as the crowds face off and stones rain down upon steel 3 Kate Aurthur, “The Mastermind Behind ‘The Hunger Games’ the second half of the aughts was, of City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1996.‡ City, CA: Universal Pictures, 2006.‡ already have Regardless of any single person or group of persons’ best intentions, what we get in The Hunger 3 Rory Carroll, “Martin Sheen and Woody Har- without falling prey Movies,” BuzzFeed, November 21, 2013, accessed March 8, 2014, course, due to investment in collat- been. relson set for 9/11 ‘truther’ film September Morn,” riot shields. And we can stare in horror as the city of Kyiv begins to burn and both sides begin blasting each other http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/hunger-games-catching-fire- eralized debt obligation bonds (CDO War of the Worlds Games and its sequels is, at best, a sedative. We identify with the ragged and hungry crowds to some amount of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Directed by Stephen Som- . Directed by Steven Spielberg. Hol- The Gaurdian, October 17, 2012, accessed March 8, nina-jacobson-jennifer-lawrence bonds) composed of sub-prime mort- lywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, 2005.‡† Then the lights come up and the credits roll and I stand up out of my seat and make conspiracy? Probably, with shotguns, lobbing molotovs and grenades against each other. And what can we do? mers. Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, 2009.* mining coal in District 12. We want Katniss to win, but also to not win: to win by defying the sys- 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/oct/17/ though everything is gage debt. I don’t fully understand my way back down the sticky-footed aisle and everyone files out of the theater and it tem, to win by breaking the system. We don’t want Katniss to shoot the apple out of the pig’s martin-sheen-woody-harrelson-9-11-truther how these financial machinations The Great Santini. Directed by Lewis John Carlino. Windtalkers. Directed by John Woo. Beverly Hills, CA: smells like popcorn and outside it’s probably raining and we go get in our car and drive fallible, nothing is wa- Burbank, CA: Warner Bros., 1979.† Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 2002.† mouth; we want her to shoot the man carving a slice off of the pig. ter tight, and we want the government — I “Like.” work, but, rather than simply issu- home to the apartment and we feel pretty okay because we’ve watched the people mean, secretly; we don’t openly want the ing risky bonds backed by sub-prime The Green Berets. Directed by John Wayne, Ray Kel- World War Z. Directed by Marc Forster. Hollywood, mortgage loans (predatory loans in CA: Paramount Pictures, 2013. ◊ government to be a dastardly organization logg and Mervyn LeRoy. Burbank, CA: Warner rebel and so we’ve also rebelled with them and I sit down on the couch and take off my We want her to win and then — HOLY FUCK — she does. And we fucking flip out! We throw tables over and fuck- “Share.” their own right) Merrill Lynch began Bros.-Seven Arts, 1968.* shoes and everything is good with the world. of evil snakes, but secretly? It’s so easy and . Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Cul- ing punch storm troopers in the face and have, like, thirty seconds of pure fucking freedom before the system cathartic — to be an organization of un- investing in these same loans them- Green Dragon. Directed by Timothy Linh Bui. Culver ver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 2012.* corralled power, of total madness, reaching And you know our government, itself carrying out its own extraordinary renditions, military actions and force- selves, putting their own money into City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 2001.† locks itself down again. And the movie is over, and we remember that we are in fact each a real human being the CDO game in But, of course, it’s not good — not really. It just, for a moment, feels good: for a moment, their scaly hands into everything we do or Studios, the studio that partnered living in a real town, and Katniss is not real. Somehow, though, as the adrenaline eases out of our system and feeding hunger-striking prisoners who are detained without due process and without charge, is happy to have search of quick high say. They keep track of our internet search- with Jacobson and Color Force to produce The Hun- Heartbreak Ridge. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Bur- it feels as if I were a part of something, something bigger than myself. It feels as if, for a moment, a people could it that way — happy to allow us to watch as others rebel, and to see the blood that flows in the name of change; returns. As those bank, CA: Warner Bros., 1986.† the dopamine rushes in, we have that feeling of satisfaction: we rebelled against something, and we didn’t really es, right, and they can track us with surveil- ger Games, is Co-Chaired by Rob Friedman and Pat- Television Tropes property owners de- *“Backed by the Pentagon,” rise and change could maybe happen, sometime. It feels as if, maybe, some bit of social justice could be achiev- win but we did for a second, and we can go home and sit on the couch and everything is ok — lance cameras all over the world and really happy to let us see how good we have it; happy to give us our freedoms in the form of entertainment: a fictional rick Wachsberger, formerly of Summit Home Alone 3. Directed by Raja Gosnell. Los Angeles, and Idioms, last modified March 7, 2014,- ac It follows that that billion dollars Merrill Lynch faulted on their sub- cessed March 7, 2014, http://tvtropes.org/pm- able. we cant buy anything or go anywhere or story told in high definition; a grainy video dispatch archived on YouTube; a community of dispersed dissidents Entertainment, which Lionsgate pur- CA: 20th Century Fox, 1997.‡ but wait — we’re somehow right back where we started, right? floated to Summit Entertainment — funding (it- prime mortgages, wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BackedByThePentagon talk to anyone without someone knowing — chased in 2012 for $412.5 million, after that exists only on the internet. self an investment on the part of Merrill Lynch the bottom fell out, The Hunt for Red October look at Lorde’s suppressed Grammy speech, talks beginning in 2008. . Directed by John McTier- †“Motion Picture & TV Liaison Office,” Marines, This is Hollywood. This is spectacle: a mass multi-media franchise backed by millions of dollars in order to sell a — and no huge sum for the vast money manu- and Merrill Lynch nan. Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, 1990.* last modified March 7, 2014, accessed March Because nothing ever changes. When we try to enact change from within the system, when we right? A joke, a jag, but still everyone wants facturing corporation) that allowed the studio found itself at a $7.9 billion deficit.1 7, 2014, http://www.hqmc.marines.mil/divpa/ story to millions of people. We, as an audience, are given the chance — allowed — to view moving images of fic- try to break the rules by following the rules, how can anything change? Katniss is caught within to believe and eats it up and thinks that rath- As long as we get just enough to allow us to feel like we could do something, if we ever really needed to. Iron Man. Directed by Jon Favreau. Hollywood, CA: Units/LosAngelesPublicAffairs/Portfolio.aspx er than simply saying thank you this 17 year to remain solvent enough to remain a desirable Paramount Pictures, 2008.*‡ tional popular uprisings — representations of revolution against a tyrannical force, a government out of control, a structure of oppression in which everything is controlled: her own choices are barely choices aquisition five years later, and to place Friedman °Matthew Price, “Josh Duhamel aims for military ac- old star tried to give some foot-noted con- a forced occupation. We are allowed, even encouraged, to sympathize with the oppressed and to vicariously and Wachsberger into a position to as- Iron Man 2. Directed by Jon Favreau. Hollywood, CA: curacy in ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon,’” New OK, at all, and all around her the game has been rigged. She is a tool, a mechanism put into action spiracy-tinged indictment of the Orwellian 1 Shawn Tully, “Wall Street’s June 26, 2011, accessed March 7, 2014, http://new- 1 sume chairmanship of Lionsgate fol- Paramount Pictures, 2010.‡† experience the joy of overcoming the oppressors. We are not, however, allowed to act. world superpower ). money machine breaks down,” CNN sok.com/josh-duhamel-aims-for-military-accuracy- by forces outside of her and coached (coaxed) through her role. lowing that acquisition, and to place, Money, November 12, 2007, accessed in-transformers-dark-of-the-moon/article/3579449 1 “Lorde’s Suppressed Grammy Award Larger Than Life. Directed by Howard Franklin. Bev- acceptance speech (Full Transcript) 26 Janu- then, Lionsgate in a position to partner March 8, 2014, http://money.cnn. erly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1996.‡ ‡”Portfolio,” Air Force Entertainment Liaison Office, last If I am to identify with the population of District 12 — the Appalachian-esque coal-mining populace from which “The genius of the system is that it never puts everyone at risk, it presents them with a lie: only these ary 2014,” Snoopman News, February 6, 2014, with Color Force on the produciton of com/magazines/fortune/fortune_ar- modified March 7, 2014, accessed March 7, 2014, http:// accessed March 8, 2014, http://snoopman. The Hunger Games — was reaped it- chive/2007/11/26/101232838/ The Longest Day. Directed by Ken Annakin, Andrew www.airforcehollywood.af.mil/portfolio/index.asp Katniss blooms in The Hunger Games, I can find myself with equal ease in a range of popular films representing Tributes are at risk. If the Districts themselves don’t want blowback, ‘we don’t want trouble,’ if they wordpress.com/2014/02/06/lordes-suppressed- self off of dubious loans to unaware home buy- Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Gerd Oswald and Dar- social uprisings, rebellion and chaos. I can find myself easily — though somewhat schizophrenically — in The ◊James Barber, “Military vs. Zombies in ‘World War ‘want’ to maintain the status quo, they have to send people to participate. You don’t send a Theseus, grammy-award-acceptance-speech-full-tran- ers, taken advantage of by a system that viewed ryl F. Zanuck. Los Angeles, CA: 20th Century Fox, 3 “Hunger Games Catching Fire: Badass Body Count,” The Last Psychiatrist, November 30, 2014, accessed March 8, 2014, http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/11/ 1962.* Z,’” Military.com, September 16, 2013, accessed Dark Knight Rises, there among the populace struggling to take back their city from a corrupted police force and 1 “Intro,” Air Force Entertainment Liaison Office, last modified March 9, 2014, accessed March 9, 2014, http://www.airforcehollywood.af.mil/intro/index.asp script-26-january-2014/ them as simply pawns on a vast chess board — March 8, 2014, http://undertheradar.military. 2 “Portfolio,” Air Force Entertainment Liaison Office, last modified March 7, 2014, accessed March 7, 2014, http://www.airforcehollywood.af.mil/portfolio/index. hunger_games_catching_fire_bad.html com/2013/09/military-vs-zombies-in-world-war-z/ political machine (though ultimately unknowingly perverted towards the will of another corrupt and violent first to the slaughter to advance the king. asp 4 Ibid.

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