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Blightzkrieg posted...

And it somehow made Chapter 1 worse by adding a bunch of pointless flashback scenes.

That's because the movies were supposed to be a solid split. Chapter 1 is just the kids, Chapter 2 is just the adults.

But then people wouldn't shut up about how much they loved the kids in the first one, so the studio panicked and went back in for reshoots so they could add more scenes with the kids into the second movie, in spite of the fact that they were never supposed to be there and they mostly had to make some new stuff up.

It kind of ruins the flow of what was originally intended.



wolfy42 posted...

but I think they touched on WHY it was happening a bit in the book, basically to get the dissadents out of the system early (and later on they were sent to a war or something like Garrety's dad...because he was talking out against the government).

It's possible. It's been a long time since I read it.

I just remembered that they had the "surface" answer of them all being volunteers, with the prize at the end, so you can argue it's free will and not coercion, and each boy had his own motivation, but I couldn't remember if there was an overarching justification for why society as a whole would allow this other than "Ehh, it's a shitty world".

Though on that note, you'd probably also have to make the contestants multicultural and make at least a third of the kids girls these days. Killing 99/100 boys and no girls is sexist!
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