New Teaser Trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Shows Why Big Government Is Scary

No other recent pop culture phenomenon is as strikingly libertarian.

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The newly released teaser trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1 will remind everyone why no other recent pop culture phenomenon is as strikingly libertarian.

The teaser depicts President Snow, ruthless dictator of the fictional North American country of Panem, rallying viewers of a government-run propaganda TV station to pledge total support to his rule as creepy buzzwords like "UNITY" appear on screen.

His speech is accompanied by cheesy background music straight out of a modern political ad, though it finds a menacing note as Snow's threats grow more explicit:

"Ours is an elegant system conceived to nourish and protect. Your districts are the body, the Capitol is the heart. Your hard work feeds us, and in return, we feed and protect you. But if you resist the system, you starve yourself. If you fight against it, it is you who will bleed. I know you will stand with me, with us, with all of us, together as one. Panem today. Panem tomorrow. Panem forever."

Viewers are encouraged to use the hastag #OnePanem and visit thecapitol.pn to learn more about how their government is keeping them safe from pesky freedom fighters like Katniss Everdeen.

The film will be released on November 21. Watch the teaser below.

Comments

[silent v]

This will be lost on most people. At the most, the RED side will see parallels to Obama and the BLUE side to GWB.

[Suthenboy]

And both will be correct.

[Bill Dalasio]

Worse still, they will interprate the problem as being that Snow didn't really mean his platitudes and the people in the capitol didn't share enough with the people in the districts.

Dammit! If they could only find the right TOP MEN!

[Hugh Akston]

The brilliance of the Hunger Games books is that there are enough different elements of oppression for people to interpret the books through almost any ideological lens and project the evils of Panem's government onto their political opponents.

[The Tone Police]

Kind of like V for Vendetta (the putrid movie)

[Kaptious Kristen]

I hated both V for Vendetta and the first Hunger Games movie. For different reasons. V was just boring and needlessly pompous, and the Hunger Games glossed over some potentially interesting storylines and character arcs.

Someday someone will make a good libertarian-minded movie, I hope.

[Lady Bertrum]

The ending to the third book is pretty awesomely libertarian, depressing but libertarian.

[Fist of Etiquette]

His speech is accompanied by cheesy background music straight out of a modern political ad...

That reminds me, it's been a while since the president read one of his stirring orations at us.

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

Um, you're going to, um, have to wait, um, until the elections get closer to, um, see him in all his, um, splendor and, uh, oratorical glory.

[fish]

Really?they're getting a new teleprompter??awesome!

[AlmightyJB]

I don't know if anyone is going to want his endorsement. DNC may just tell him to stay off the tv and just hit the fundraisers and community functions.

[Suthenboy]

Dammit Foe, be quiet and count your blessings.

[Fist of Etiquette]

My leg isn't going to tingle itself.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Is tingling a warm, damp feeling?

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

I wonder how long it's going to take for the government to sue Lionsgate for IP infringement.

[Brett L]

Nah. As pointed out above, both parties will believe that this is exactly what the other TEAM are like, so it must be about the other guy.

[antisocial-ist]

Not until they've gone after the estate of George Orwell.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Oh, I get it, Panem, as in panem et circenses. Quite original.

[fish]

No dumbshit that's Panem?you know... the airline!

[CE]

I thought it was Pan-Em, as in Pan (all) - Emerica.

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

I think its just the US portion of it. I don't remember a District that makes donuts and beer or one that does the capital's gardening.

[SweatingGin]

panem et circenses

Trying to start a circumcision thread?

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

Don't be a dick, SG.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Any way you slice it, there is going to be a heated discussion.

[Fr?ulein Nikki]

Ouch.

[CE]

Let's just cut off this sub-thread right now.

[MSimon]

I have no skin in the game.

[The Heresiarch]

Yes - But why use the accusative when you'd expect the nominative - Panis? Used as a simple name, we wouldn't say Romam, we'd say Roma; we don't say Athenas, we say Athenae. Amirite?

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

People from Panem, they go house?

[pmains]

What Sloopy said.

In addition
(1) Panis sounds phallic. Who could take a dystopia can Panis seriously? Panis.
(2) People are already unlikely to know the phrase "panem et circenses." I'm betting they're even less likely to make the connection if you provide the nominative rather than the declension used in the famous phrase.

[The Heresiarch]

Oh, I'm sure the author just saw the Juvenal phrase and lifted it without giving any thought to grammar or declensions. I just wanted to make a pedantic point. Can't you give me that joy?

[Idle Hands]

Panem is obviously Canada.

[CE]

Except District 12. That must be West Virginia.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

That President looks like Saruman and the Architect from the Matrix had a B-movie baby.

[AlmightyJB]

nice

[Carl ?s his privilege]

Another heckler got removed from Google I/O. Not sure what he was saying. The current speaker didn't handle it as well.

[Carl ?s his privilege]

According to teh Twitterz the protester accused Google of "building robots that kill people".

They just switched speakers, and the new one mentioned that his app (which is meant as an example of what you can do with Google's Cloud Platform) is "about the most peaceful thing [he] can think of to develop" (an app to track his walking).

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

In his defense, I've heard of robots.txt files gone rogue.

[MJGreen]

So Google has officially become another Evil Corporation that all good hearted citizens must protest?

[Carl ?s his privilege]

Heh, it's been that way for a while.

[Jon Lester]

I wish they'd move the release date up a month.

BTW, a new "Purge" movie is coming out, and the New Founders of America website has been revised.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I saw that movie. Talk about incompetent filmmakers and writers squandering an original concept by blunting the audience with a political message.

[CE]

Yeah, and it's about anarchy. Sort of.

[sarcasmic]

OT: Trespassing cop kills dog. Nothing else happens.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....-yard.html

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Isn't Donald Sutherland the dumbshit that thinks The Hunger Games can be read as an allegory for the kind of country the Tea Party wants?

[sarcasmic]

Liberty is tyranny. Duh. Tony said so.

[Doctor Whom]

As surely as Animal Farm can be read as a satire of capitalism. Both Peak Derp and Peak Lie are unreachable.

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

Here is the story: http://www.theguardian.com/fil.....ching-fire

He's half right on everything he says. He just looks to the natural oppressor for salvation. But then again, a majority of people have always done that.

Also, what else would you expect from a flappy-headed Canuck?

[PRX]

I get why they are called The Hunger Games. I don't get why the government would call them that.

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

IIRC" they did so to reinforce the hunger that occurred during the war and to remind people that it's a pen stroke away from happening to them again.

It makes sense when you realize you're dealing with a naturally oppressive government that basically enslaves a large majority of the population.

[Ted S.]

Or: Because fuck you, that's why.

[Carl ?s his privilege]

Google wants you to know how many amazing benefits you will get by locking yourself down to their proprietary (well, to be fair, partially proprietary) developer platform.

Not that it's a new thing in this industry.

[Ted S.]

Gotta love the iCult.

[Carl ?s his privilege]

Hm? I'm referring to their Clould Platform, not mobile. I use Android.

[JW]

he Hunger Games: Mockingjay?Part 1 will remind everyone why no other recent pop culture phenomenon is as strikingly libertarian.

Which very, very few people will actually pick up on.

[mad.casual]

Yeah, I'd be more concerned that claiming 'The Hunger Games' as libertarian doesn't affiliate you with a subtle political message as much as it associates you with Children killing each other to survive.

Most people are wholly willing to look past the basic premise of the movie, but anyone anti-libertarian with half a wit (most only rise to half... and where is Tony?) could easily draw the parallel in hearts and minds.

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

I don't really care if people take a political message away from the film or not. What I really want so for people to recognize that Donald Sutherland is a great fucking actor and has one of the most beautiful male voices ever put,on film. The man is a fucking wizard in front of the camera.

As to what ASM alluded to up thread, I hadn't heard that at all. That would be a minor shame but won't make me enjoy his acting any less.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Agreed he's a great actor, but you can tell his political ideology hasn't changed much since the 1970s.

In any case I seldom let an actor's political ideology turn me off from their work. Directors are a separate issue.

[110 Lean]

The only reason I watch the Hunger Games is because I can't take my eyes off of Jennifer Lawrence. Saw the film on a flight to SFO. Was really tired on the return flight so I decided to get some sleep. However, they were showing the movie on that flight too and even though I wasn't wearing my headset, I kept opening my eyes because I knew she was on the screen.

[sarcasmic]

If I based my entertainment choices on the politics of the entertainer, I'd be stuck watching stupid shit like The Independents and Escape from New York. No thanks.

[Idle Hands]

don't forget Escape from LA and the Thing.

[The Tone Police]

I thought we all agreed Oldman movies were back in play.

[Fr?ulein Nikki]

Right on, sloopy.

[Hugh Akston]

I haven't ever seen Sutherland do anything that blew me away. Joss Whedon also says he a giant asshole.

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

Obviously you've never seen Kentucky Fried Movie, Hugh.

[The Tone Police]

Oh, back when Doonesbury was good.

[Ted S.]

and has one of the most beautiful male voices ever put,on film.

Better than Ronald Colman?

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

Colman dosn't even do the best Shakespeare.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

...that Donald Sutherland is a great fucking actor and has one of the most beautiful male voices ever put,on film.

One of the most beautiful voices, eh?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Let me guess which link that is...

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Too easy.

[MJGreen]

Is it ever explained in the books why Panem is what it is? What exactly is the elegant system, other than outer districts are slave labor or something like that? Is Panem at war with Eastasia?

...It's probably due to some environmental catastrophe, isn't it.

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

I think it has more to do with who has control of the nukes and who doesn't. There was a District that was nuked during the war and the capital is basically a Galts Gulch type of impenetrable place that nobody can attack without facing extinction.

[Not an Economist]

There wasn't a district that was nuked during the prior rebellion. District 13 and the Capital both had nukes and were at that stage where that was the next step for both. They agreed to stop, the Capitol let District 13 go on its own and the Capital made every other district believe District 13 was destroyed.

Panem was created out of what was left of North America after some sort of war and environmental disaster. I can't remember for sure if the war involved nuclear weapons or not.

They know nothing of the world outside Panem.

[CE]

...to learn more about how their government is keeping them safe from pesky freedom fighters like Katniss Everdeen.

I'm pretty sure she's officially a terrorist.

[Cindy Gobrecht]

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[Biff7annen]

Is it just me or does the Capitol TV trademark look way too much like the NBC peacock?

[Acronis True Image Coupon]

What about Katniss and Peter????

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