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President Obama may have to declare Jennifer Lawrence a \u201cnational treasure\u201d in order to preserve his legacy.\u00a0 (Clearly Obamacare is not going to work, and his new negotiation to halt the Irani plan to develop nuclear capabilities is clearly doomed to failure.)<\/i><\/p>\n

Our Thanksgiving gift this year may very well be \u201cHunger Games, Catching Fire\u201d.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0It is a pleasure to view from start to finish, with stellar performances by several fine actors, including Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Woody Harrelson.<\/p>\n

But \u201cCatching Fire\u201d is Jennifer Lawrence\u2019s vehicle; the others are just along for the ride.\u00a0 Every two years, Jennifer Lawrence morphs into Katniss Everdeen, literally transforming her persona into this character.\u00a0 It is difficult to envision any other actress who could assume such a complex role with so little apparent effort.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Jennifer Lawrence assumed her position as a \u201cHollywood Diva\u201d with a well-deserved Oscar for her performance as Tiffany in \u201cSilver Linings Playbook\u201d.\u00a0 Prior to that \u201ccoming out party\u201d, she enamored audiences as Raven\/Mystique in \u201cX-Men: Days of Future Past\u201d and \u201cX-Men First Class\u201d, clearly showing a propensity for excelling in the world of Sci-Fi.\u00a0 It appears Jennifer Lawrence will be a force to be reckoned with in the real future, not just the apocalyptic one in science fiction movies.<\/p>\n

From Diana Rigg\u2019s black attire as \u201cEmma Peel\u201d in the TV series, The Avengers, (1961 to 1969), to a latter day younger version, Jessica Alba, who enticed the viewers as James Cameron\u2019s \u201cDark Angel\u201d (2000 to 2002), audiences have embraced the \u201cbattling female heroine\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Sarah Michelle Gellar left the black attire behind, capturing five seasons of audiences with her semi-comical, yet engaging \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997-2003).\u00a0\u00a0 My personal favorite may have been Kate Beckinsale\u2019s portrayal of Selene in the movies, \u201cUnderWorld\u201d (2003) and its sequel \u201cUnderworld Evolution”(2006).<\/p>\n

But I believe that Jennifer Lawrence may have taken it to a different level for one major reason.\u00a0 The vulnerability that she brings to the role of Katniss Everdeen is the defining factor.\u00a0 It is inescapable.\u00a0\u00a0 She oscillates from fragile teenager to heroine throughout the movie.\u00a0 You get occasional glimpses of her inner toughness, her tenaciousness, and her refusal to cave in to the powers-to-be.\u00a0 But she never lets you forget that under it all she is gentle, compassionate, and vulnerable but not breakable.<\/p>\n

Oscars are not given for performances in science fiction movies as a general rule.\u00a0 But that does not mean that there have never been great performances in sci-fi movies.\u00a0 Walter Pigeon was phenomenal in \u201cForbidden Planet\u201d(1956),\u00a0 as was Michael Rennie in the original \u201cThe Day the Earth Stood Still\u201d(1951) .\u00a0\u00a0 In Avatar (2009), Zoe Saldana certainly shined as Naytiri, and who doesn\u2019t love Chris Pine as the new and improved James T. Kirk in \u201cStar Trek: Into Darkness\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 A strong argument can be made that it is far more difficult to achieve critical acclaim in a sci-fi movie because special effects and fantastic story lines traditionally dominate this genre.\u00a0\u00a0 In \u201cHunger Games; Catching Fire\u201d, the movie is not dominated by special effects or the story line.\u00a0 Jennifer Lawrences graces the silver screen with her performance as Katniss Everdeen and it is a safe bet that she will continue to endear herself to audiences for the next two segments of the Hunger Games saga.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lionsgate may have arrived at the same conclusion, based on the fact that Ms. Lawrence received the paltry sum of $ 500,000 as base salary for \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d, while being upgraded to $ 10 million for \u201cCatching Fire\u201d.<\/p>\n

Three teenagers interviewed at the theater gave the movie a rating of 9 out of 10. However, it is clear that this movie\u2019s popularity crosses the spectrum of age and ethnicity. \u00a0\u00a0The one point loss may be a result of a select few scientific anomalies.\u00a0 A meeting with Stephen Hawking will have to be arranged to analyze whether or not these anomalies concur with \u201cString Theory\u201d.\u00a0 Until then let\u2019s just revel in a truly magnificent cinematic performance by Ms. Lawrence.<\/p>\n

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President Obama may have to declare Jennifer Lawrence a \u201cnational treasure\u201d in order to preserve his legacy.\u00a0 (Clearly Obamacare is not going to work, and his new negotiation to halt the Irani plan to develop nuclear capabilities is clearly doomed to failure.) Our Thanksgiving gift this year may very well be \u201cHunger Games, Catching Fire\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}