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Suzanne Collins says she got the idea for The Hunger Games while sleepily flicking channels between some reality-show game and footage of the invasion of Iraq until the images began to blur in her mind.

Right, the po' folks send their kids to the meatgrinder while the chickenhawks get fatter. The Iraq war, er, I mean the hunger games, are just entertainment for the wealthy.

There’s also an economic-oppression angle: Poor citizens can barter for food and other necessities by increasing the number of times their names go into the pool for the lottery. Thus, the rich are sheltered, and the poor are disproportionately at risk.

Ah, of course, an "economic oppression" angle!

And I notice that Woody Harrelson and Lenny Kravitz are listed as producers. Who here thinks these guys would put their names on something with a real conservative message?

I can see this thing from a mile away. It is indeed leftist agitprop. Conservatives who see a conservative message in this film are being punked just like the ones who thought Avatar was about respecting property rights.

“And I notice that Woody Harrelson and Lenny Kravitz are listed as producers.”

Both are actors on the film, neither of them are producers for the film. The producer's list at imdb.com:

Produced by
Robin Bissell .... executive producer
Suzanne Collins .... executive producer
Chantal Feghali .... co-executive producer
Nina Jacobson .... producer
Jon Kilik .... producer
Aldric La’auli Porter .... co-producer
Louise Rosner .... executive producer
Bryan Unkeless .... co-producer

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/fullcredits#cast

"I can see this thing from a mile away. It is indeed leftist agitprop. Conservatives who see a conservative message in this film are being punked just like the ones who thought Avatar was about respecting property rights."

Everyone has their own opinion, but you couldn't be more off the target in the comparison of conservative reaction to Avatar vs. Hunger Games. I have personally seen both films. Avatar was a leftwing, anti-military, enviro crazy piece of vacuous drivel. Hunger Games is a loud warning against the evils of an oppressive dictatorial government that takes all from its subjects to support its decadence and the strength of the individual to resist and provide the spark to rebellion which is simmering just below the surface.

Your interpretation is disputable. She said the images blurred/merged in her imagination, not that the ideas were analogous. Novelists often work with images before ideas and before ideologies (organized systems of ideas).

Movies can certainly be analyzed for politics, worldview, etc. but movies are not all contemporary-message-driven. The author's description of how the images emerged, does not constitute an evaluation of the war in Iraq.

On the other hand, a movie that's not a clear-cut partisan propaganda piece, might not be to your taste.