Winter's Bone Tom Slade 

Winter's Bone is a film directed by Debra Granick. It was made in 2010 and it is a thriller, social realism and drama. The film is about a girl named Ree who struggles to keep her family fed has to hunt down for her drug dealing father so that she can keep her house. The film deals with the themes of protection, misandry, misogyny and determination. It's strong female lead, Ree, is played by Jennifer Lawrence. `her performance in this film earned her a nomination a academy award winner for best performance.  

The definition of misandry is dislike of, or contempt, or ingrained prejudice against men. The male character's within the film are represented negatively. Ree's father is a drug dealer and has left them, Teardrop (Jessup's Brother) is aggressive towards his wife and females in particular and is a drug dealer, The Farmer who lives across from Ree's house bullies her into getting him in the car and the list goes on. These male characters construct a negative representation for men in this film. Men seem to be represented as stubborn and misogynistic.  This film doesn’t particularly portray women in a positive way. The main character Ree has the attributes of a strong independent female but other females characters such as Gail and Teardrop's wife are represented as dependent and weak individuals. It exhibits the male and female stereotypes. Potentially this film is trying to that these stereotypes are wrong prejudice  

This film is a more realistic version of the hunger games. The lead character is played by the same actor and the protagonist has the same initial goal. Which is to protect her family. "Catness" volunteers as tribute because she wants to save her little sister from the hunger games. Ree goes on this mission to find her father because she knows that she will lose the house and then potentially send her family into famine. You could say that they are both up against the authoritarians in their society. Ree is up against the men and the law and "Catness" ends up going up against "Snow" the dictator. The film releases are only separated by two years. Gary Ross (director of Hunger Games) maybe saw Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone and spotted potential. The characters are similar and their goals making it easier for Jennifer Lawrence to be chosen because it wouldn't be much of a change of character. Jennifer Lawrence achieved Best Actress from various academies. The differences in this film are the setting and time period.