Showing posts with label Hunger Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hunger Games. Show all posts

Sunday, November 15, 2015

And just when I thought I could not be more of a fan.

Courtesy of CNS News: 

In an interview for the December edition of Vogue, the subject of Kim Davis came up. Davis is the Kentucky county cleark who went to jail for refusing to sign wedding licenses for gay couples. 

Lawrence's reaction is described by Vogue writer Jonathan Van Meter: 

The day I am at Lawrence’s house also happens to be the day after the infamous county clerk Kim Davis gets out of jail, where she had been sent for defying a court order requiring her to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Lawrence brings it up, calling her that “lady who makes me embarrassed to be from Kentucky.” Kim Davis? “Don’t even say her name in this house,” she shoots back, and then goes into a rant about “all those people holding their crucifixes, which may as well be pitchforks, thinking they’re fighting the good fight. I grew up in Kentucky. I know how they are.” 

There is a rabble-rousing spirit in Lawrence that gets stirred up when certain subjects are broached. “I was raised a Republican,” she says, “but I just can’t imagine supporting a party that doesn’t support women’s basic rights. It’s 2015 and gay people can get married and we think that we’ve come so far, so, yay! But have we? I don’t want to stay quiet about that stuff.” It is not that big of a stretch to imagine her becoming a modern-day Jane Fonda, whom she deeply admires.

Well guess who has just been convinced to buy a ticket to the next Hunger Games movie. 

Boy do I love that crucifix and pitchfork comparison.

Essentially we have our own Christians trying to establish a Caliphate in this country and it is high time that people started saying that in public.

And clearly this young woman is not afraid to do so.

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Juliane Moore to be cast as yet ANOTHER villain. I swear once you play Sarah Palin you are typecast forever!

"Evil? You don't know what evil is. Try playing this lunatic!"
Courtesy of Atlantic Wire:  

Well, Sarah Palin herself won't be playing the pivotal role of President Alma Coin in the third (and, yes, fourth) Hunger Games films, but the woman who played her to so much acclaim, Julianne Moore, just might—and in full-on Palin fashion.

Deadline's Mike Fleming Jr. reports that Lionsgate and director Francis Lawrence are honing in on Moore to play Coin, the duplicitous leader of Panem's rebellion and president of the mysterious District 13. It's pretty much perfect casting. Moore, as we learned from her Emmy-winning performance as Palin in HBO's Game Change, is great at brining out the best in the sleazier elements from politicians, and Coin is definitely sleazy, using heroine Katniss for her own ulterior motives. The character—minor spoiler alert—is ultimately responsible for one of the most tragic and surprising deaths in the book. 

Of course this follows up Moore's recent turn as the batshit crazy bible thumping mother from hell in the soon to be released remake of Stephen King's Carrie.

 Here is what Moore had to say about that Palinesue role:She told SFX magazine:

"It's impossible not to be scary as this character. She is terrifying. I think any time you encounter a parent being cruel it's terrifying and that's the bottom line. If you think about being a child or an adolescent, you are relatively powerless." 

What can I say, once you start playing deranged lunatics who are constantly placing children in danger it's just hard to stop the momentum.

However I have to say, that as terrifying as Coin and Margaret White, are they will STILL pale in comparison to the Lunatic from Lake Lucille. Because THAT unnatural creature still walks among us.