DivergentLooks Like Harry Potter Playing the Hunger Games

We come across the first - ever footage from forthcoming film Divergent at Comic - Con yesterday , and get the max on what this moving-picture show based on the incredible bestseller is blend to be like . Basically , it look a lot like the Hunger Games — but with a whole lot of Gryffindor in there too .

The premise of Veronica Roth ’s novel is that teenagers living in a post - apocalyptical , walled Chicago must put on a sorting hat — erm , I intend , go into a dream machine — and have visions that help them “ opt ” one of five groups to join . Like the houses of Hogwarts , each radical has a particular talent , including self-sacrifice , intelligence , courageousness , etc . Our hero Tris was born into selflessness , but yearns to bring together Dauntless , the courageousness ( AKA Gryffindor ) radical .

Director Neil Burger explained :

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The prefer ceremony is like a graduation ceremonial . It ’ san aptitude exam . There ’s a psychological dream state you go into and you are challenged in that dreamstate . That ’s the cornerstone for the choice . Then you slice your palm and unload blood into 5 bowls that represent the factions and you pay consecrated allegiance to it . Once you choose there is no pass away back to your family . Tris choose to go to Dauntless from Abnegation . These factions keep guild in remainder .

So it ’s a picayune blinking and creepier than the sorting ceremony , and the Dauntless camarilla does a heap more sordid deed than Gryffindor ( though nothing as scary as the battle against You - Know - Who ) . We learn that the photographic film will focus a batch on testing the recruit , and include the terrifying scenes from the novel where Tris has to deal with her fear of drowning in a huge tank of water , and her best friend is forced to confront her fear of being dangle over a ravine from a rope .

What we get word in the footage was part of Tris ’ elicitation into Dauntless , a scene where she and the other bravery wannabes have to screen their heart by jumping off a moving liter gear in Chicago , plunk onto a rooftop , and then jump off a building . Tris chute first , emerging from the netting into the weapon of Four , the boy who will become her wise man and love sake .

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Then we see Tris enter the mankind of Dauntless in a montage of crowd - surfing , MMA fighting , and hanging out in a mess hall that was like a post - apocalyptical version of the Hot Lunch routine from the movie Fame . We see her climbing the ferris wheel with Four , and catch a glance of the needle and dreaming machine , which have a light , Dollhouse brain tech kind of look . There ’s also a great moment where Tris is demonstrate how brave she is by letting Four throw tongue at her side without squinch — even when one nick her ear and she starts bleeding .

Shot in blues and Grey against the backdrop of a crumbling city , the motion-picture show has evidently taken its visual discriminative stimulus from The Hunger Games . The difference is that this movie feels more like a play squad or military unit film than a grim futurist warning the way Hunger Games did . The huge ensemble cast mousse really nicely , and when we see them together it ’s exonerated that they ’ve worked firmly to give us the sense of Dauntless as a category . Still , this flick is run to have to ferment severely to distinguish itself after interview fell in love with the aroused intensity and dark media sarcasm of The Hunger Games . alternatively of Hunger Games ’ societal unfavorable judgment , Divergent has a Harry Potter fib of raise up into a appendage of an elite radical . These are not Gryffindor ’s wide - eyed school kids , though — they are unfearing ’ knife - loving kill machines .

Think of it as a CW show writ big , with gorgeous young the great unwashed in a softheaded scifi world . That does n’t have to be a unsound thing . But it may not be terribly profound .

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