And another thing about the Hunger Games
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seriousficOh, and you know how in a lot of movies, they'll have a scene where a character goes "I got your call, I was right in the middle of practicing for that archery contest..." and you're like "Oh, he's gonna shoot someone with a bow and arrow later." In Hunger Games, they take that TO THE EXTREME.
First, there's a scene where the Tributes are training for the games and Peeta says "Check it, I can camouflage myself, Rambo style. IT'S BECAUSE I HAVE EXPERIENCE FROM DECORATING CAKES." Because obviously they eat a lot of elaborate decorated cakes in a mining community. And, since it's obviously not enough to foreshadow this by showing him decorating a cake, they show him camouflage his arm and hold it against a table like he's cosplaying Nick Nolte in that Hulk movie we don't talk about.
That's just the set-up. Later, in the arena, where everyone is dying because they can't get water or food, Peeta manages to disguise himself as a rock. And you can so tell it's a professional make-up job. I mean, it's one thing for him to do a Rambo thing and cover himself with mud, but this is just...
No one will convince me that it didn't come from a pot-fueled gaming session. Suzanne Collins was playing an RPG, a guy said "Trolloc the Magnificent disguises himself as a rock," the GM says "You can't do that, you don't have a skill in camouflage," "Hey, I have 6D in cake decoration, it's the same thing!"
Suzanne Collins: This is going in the book.
Then she smoked a bowl with Jack Kirby and came up with "Muttations."
First, there's a scene where the Tributes are training for the games and Peeta says "Check it, I can camouflage myself, Rambo style. IT'S BECAUSE I HAVE EXPERIENCE FROM DECORATING CAKES." Because obviously they eat a lot of elaborate decorated cakes in a mining community. And, since it's obviously not enough to foreshadow this by showing him decorating a cake, they show him camouflage his arm and hold it against a table like he's cosplaying Nick Nolte in that Hulk movie we don't talk about.
That's just the set-up. Later, in the arena, where everyone is dying because they can't get water or food, Peeta manages to disguise himself as a rock. And you can so tell it's a professional make-up job. I mean, it's one thing for him to do a Rambo thing and cover himself with mud, but this is just...
No one will convince me that it didn't come from a pot-fueled gaming session. Suzanne Collins was playing an RPG, a guy said "Trolloc the Magnificent disguises himself as a rock," the GM says "You can't do that, you don't have a skill in camouflage," "Hey, I have 6D in cake decoration, it's the same thing!"
Suzanne Collins: This is going in the book.
Then she smoked a bowl with Jack Kirby and came up with "Muttations."
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Date: 2012-04-01 07:21 pm (UTC)Also in the book, he hid under some leaves and only had to partially camo himself, not as a rock, IIRC. Y'know, in a vaguely plausible fashion, much in the way actual soldiers do.
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Date: 2012-04-01 07:23 pm (UTC)