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Is Chloe Moretz's Next 'Huge Project' 'The Hunger Games?'
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It's about time we get some 'Hunger Games' news to report that doesn't revolve around the casting of Katniss, Peeta or Gale. When this whole casting clamor began, Chloe Moretz was at the top of the list to lead as Katniss. Clearly that didn't end up working out, but, on the bright side, Lionsgate's decision to go with Jennifer Lawrence for the part made another role accessible to Moretz: Katniss' younger sister, Prim.
In the books, it isn't Katniss that's selected to be thrown into the brutal Hunger Games, but rather her little sister, 12-year-old Primrose, or Prim for short. Thanks to the Capitol's volunteering policy, if a girl's name is read and another girl between the ages of 12 and 18 would like to take her position, she's able to do so and, sure enough, Katniss seizes the opportunity and spares her sister. After that, Prim's role is fairly minimal,»
- Perri Nemiroff
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Slash and earn: the blood-soaked rise of South Korean cinema
Kim Jee-woon's I Saw the Devil is only the latest revenge fable to hit the world from the studios of Seoul. Why all the anger?
Next month, South Korean director Kim Jee-woon's new film, I Saw the Devil, is released on these shores. It's a bloody revenge fable, bulging with 360-degree stab-cams, decapitations and lines like, "Your nightmare is only beginning." Tough stuff, to be sure, and aficionados of the rough street justice favoured by a certain strain of Asian cinema are in for a treat.
So why is it that such gory stories of vengeance have become – to western eyes at least – the dominant feature of Korean cinema? Kim himself contributed to the genre in 2005 with A Bittersweet Life, and there's Park Chan-wook's phenomenal revenge trilogy (Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Lady Vengeance and Oldboy); and, though they're not driven at their cores by revenge, it would be foolish to»
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