Mockingjay, Part 1: Francis Lawrence on Marketing and Propaganda

Like many blockbusters, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 is full of action and explosions. But Francis Lawrence’s new film is also about a series of complex ideas, particularly how advertising can be used to manipulate the masses into thinking whatever the individuals in charge want them to. In Catching Fire, that propaganda was used by the villains to quell a rebellion. In Mockingjay, the rebels use…