This interview with Gary Ross is from March 21,
2012. Gary Ross is a writer, producer,
actor and director and has most recently directed and co-written the screen
play for The Hunger Games with the author of the book, Suzanne Collins. The film premiered March 23, 2012 and has
been a big success. Aside from Hunger
Games Gary Ross has directed such films “BIG” (1988), “Pleasantville” (1998),
“Seabiscuit” (2003).
I never realized how multifaceted Gary Ross is in
the entertainment industry. Since the 1980’s has been very involved in
production, and writing along with acting parts. I was also not aware and
surprised that his father, Arthur A. Ross had been so heavily involved in the
movie and television industry. He wrote
many of the Alfred Hitchcock presents and movie screenplays like “The Great
Race” one of my favorite movies, and “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” just
to name a couple. Along with his father
seems Gary Ross was influenced by writers like Ray Bradbury and George
Orwell. Most of his works harnesses
themes of the little guys fighting the system; there is a kind of rage against
the machine or establishment to most of his work.
“99
and the 1%” a quote from Gary Ross describes his
take on a government system where so much power is given to a privileged few
who try and hold a culture together without ethics. In any society like that the government will
eventually unravel. This to me drove
home his message of the films he has been involved in and in an underlying way how
he feels about the last and current presidential administration of the United
States.
Gary Ross revisits the theme of social change and individuals
who take a stand for change several times in his interview. Referring to a character in the Hunger Games
but also but also, I think relating his own opinion Gary made the statement, “what they will and will not tolerate.”
In reference to social change, it can only come begin when one person or a
group finally say that’s enough and make an overt move to fix it.
He talks a lot about social change as I stated
before. How he has chosen work that best
fits his ideals and views. How in “preserving your own humanity” one person can
make changes that will be of benefit to society. He speaks about this preservation in relation
to a character in the Hunger Games but in his own way I believe he feels that
the works he has been involved in and chose to bring to the screen also speaks
of his efforts to maintain his own humanity and enlighten the viewer to look at
oneself for the greater good of us all.
Although this interview was short, I found that Gary
Ross is an intriguing man. I truly believe
that he feels that through his work his is sending a message that society needs
to look at itself from time to time and when it has to change direction. And in his own small way can make the world
realize that anyone one man or woman can effect change.
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