Utopian Films and the Sense of "What If"
How would the world react after a nuclear fallout? How would the country react if a dictator arose from the republic that is present today? The answer is probably not what one thinks. Utopian films are a rising genre in the United States. These movies fulfill the human sense of wonder by showing the viewers a ''What if" situation. Many utopian films are defined by a dictator-like government arising after some sort of lethal and catastrophic disaster. The movies The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Maze Runner are all great examples of the utopian genre as it is defined today. The Hunger Games trilogy are movies that follow a young Katniss Everdeen, the heroine, as she is thrown into the horrible and deadly punishment for the citizens of the country of Panem, which was once North America after a war that causes the country to crumble. Each of the 12 Districts must select two tributes by lottery, one boy and one girl, and submit them to basically a death sentence. The focus of the narrative in …show more content…
All of them have a similar way they express the narrative of the film. In all these cases it was through plot, storyline, and dialogue. They also have very similar elements of cinematography; wide shots, full location shots, and close shots of the action scenes. The mise-en-scene of all examples focuses heavily on the location because it is very important in all three movies. The sounds in all three movies are what sets them apart from each other. While Hunger Games and Divergent are very similar, both having fight scenes and battle noises as their main elements of sound, The Maze Runner's sounds are mainly maze noises and there are actually little to no battle noises in the movie at all. Editing in all three movies are also similar because the editing is not prevalent in the movies enough to make one notice
How would the world react after a nuclear fallout? How would the country react if a dictator arose from the republic that is present today? The answer is probably not what one thinks. Utopian films are a rising genre in the United States. These movies fulfill the human sense of wonder by showing the viewers a ''What if" situation. Many utopian films are defined by a dictator-like government arising after some sort of lethal and catastrophic disaster. The movies The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Maze Runner are all great examples of the utopian genre as it is defined today. The Hunger Games trilogy are movies that follow a young Katniss Everdeen, the heroine, as she is thrown into the horrible and deadly punishment for the citizens of the country of Panem, which was once North America after a war that causes the country to crumble. Each of the 12 Districts must select two tributes by lottery, one boy and one girl, and submit them to basically a death sentence. The focus of the narrative in …show more content…
All of them have a similar way they express the narrative of the film. In all these cases it was through plot, storyline, and dialogue. They also have very similar elements of cinematography; wide shots, full location shots, and close shots of the action scenes. The mise-en-scene of all examples focuses heavily on the location because it is very important in all three movies. The sounds in all three movies are what sets them apart from each other. While Hunger Games and Divergent are very similar, both having fight scenes and battle noises as their main elements of sound, The Maze Runner's sounds are mainly maze noises and there are actually little to no battle noises in the movie at all. Editing in all three movies are also similar because the editing is not prevalent in the movies enough to make one notice