Sadly this does not refer to my blog but to the official trailer for The Hunger Games posted on Youtube just two days ago.
It’s been very interesting to watch the marketing of this film and the reaction from the book trilogy’s ardent teenage fanbase. The trailer has had a world premier on ABC’s Good Morning America and is viewing on the “Jumbotron” in New York’s Times Square. It has been described as the successor to the “HP” and “Twilight” brands but this has really raised the wrath of the Hunger Games readers. Much teen angst has been posted across social media sites (over 17,000 comments to the Youtube trailer alone) about the insult of comparing their beloved series to a vampire love story. Typical are comments like “The books are the most presise* (sic) well written books I’ve ever read, no comparisons to anything else!!!” and “The Hunger Games has more meaning, depth and emotion lovingly splayed out on it’s first page than Twilight has crammed up into it’s entire disgustingly popular series”!
Who says the kids of today can’t recognise literature when they see it?
