In The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a hero?s journey armed only with her bow, her arrow and her wits: She must survive a televised death match against 23 other young people if she?s to return home and continue hunting to provide food for her family. But in the real world, the character Katniss Everdeen faces an even greater challenge: Proving that pop culture will embrace a heroine capable of holding her own with the big boys. It?s a battle fought on two fronts. First, The Hunger Games must bring in the kind of box office numbers that prove to Hollywood that a film led by a young female heroine who?s not cast as a sex symbol can bring in audiences. And second, for Katniss to truly triumph, she must embody the type of female heroine ? smart, tough, compassionate ? that has been sorely lacking in the popular culture landscape for so very long.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen: The Heroine the World Needs Right Now
<cite>The Hunger Games'</cite> Katniss Everdeen: The Heroine the World Needs Right Now
In The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a hero?s journey armed only with her bow, her arrow and her wits: She must survive a televised death match against 23 other young people if she?s to return home and continue hunting to provide food for her family. But in the real world, the character Katniss Everdeen faces an even greater challenge: Proving that pop culture will embrace a heroine capable of holding her own with the big boys. It?s a battle fought on two fronts. First, The Hunger Games must bring in the kind of box office numbers that prove to Hollywood that a film led by a young female heroine who?s not cast as a sex symbol can bring in audiences. And second, for Katniss to truly triumph, she must embody the type of female heroine ? smart, tough, compassionate ? that has been sorely lacking in the popular culture landscape for so very long.
In The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a hero?s journey armed only with her bow, her arrow and her wits: She must survive a televised death match against 23 other young people if she?s to return home and continue hunting to provide food for her family. But in the real world, the character Katniss Everdeen faces an even greater challenge: Proving that pop culture will embrace a heroine capable of holding her own with the big boys. It?s a battle fought on two fronts. First, The Hunger Games must bring in the kind of box office numbers that prove to Hollywood that a film led by a young female heroine who?s not cast as a sex symbol can bring in audiences. And second, for Katniss to truly triumph, she must embody the type of female heroine ? smart, tough, compassionate ? that has been sorely lacking in the popular culture landscape for so very long.
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