The Real-Life Hunger Games Is Coming to Russian Television. God Help Us All.
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Source: The Daily Beast
An upcoming reality series called Game2: Winter will reportedly drop 30 male and female contestants into the Siberian wildernessand bills itself as allowing rape and murder.
Having won their last game, the American election, Russia is moving on to Game2: Winter. Set to premiere exclusively online next July and run through April 1, 2018, the 24/7 reality TV experience will chronicle 30 male and female contestants dropped in the middle of the Siberian wilderness. The weather? -40 degrees Celsius. The prize? $1.65 million. The bears? Abundant. Also, everything is allowed including rape and murder, according to show rules. Apparently, Westworld isn't just the prestige TV show you kept meaning to finishits also our new reality!
If this premise sounds familiar, thats because its more or less the dystopian YA series The Hunger Gamesyoure welcome, kids. In a plot line thats directly cribbed from the books, participants will be able to request specific items from viewers, who can donate to the cause via the Game2: Winter website. Speaking of dystopias, its hard not to draw a parallel between our reality TV president-elect and Russias latest big league entertainment idea. Donald Trump is a man whos so attached to the medium of pseudo-reality that hes controversially decided to remain an executive producer on Celebrity Apprentice, marking the first instance of an American president with financial ties to a reality TV show.
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The brainchild of 35-year-old “entrepreneur” Yevgeny Pyatkovsky, Game2: Winter is set to air in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic, courting a global market of insomniacs and psychopaths. In an interview last month, Pyatkovsky explained that all potential contestants have to sign waivers, which acknowledge that they could be raped or killed over the course of filming. He also confirmed that as of November 18, 32 people had already signed up to be stranded and tortured in the Siberian wilderness, including one American. So far, applicants include professional rescuers, dedicated travelers, entrepreneurs, photographers, jewelers and psychologists. Contestants have to be mentally sane—whatever that means in this context—and at least 18 years old. The lucky men and women who make it to Siberia will be armed with survival training skills, courtesy of Russia’s elite former GRU Spetsnaz operatives. They will be permitted knives, but no guns.
But don’t we live in a civil society, governed by laws? Great question. Technically, Siberia is under Russian jurisdiction, and subject to the laws of the Russian Federation, meaning that contestants can be arrested for committing televised crimes. “You must understand that the police will come and take you away,” the rules state. “We are on the territory of Russia, and obey the laws of the Russian Federation.
Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/17/the-real-life-hunger-games-is-coming-to-russian-television-god-help-us-all.html?via=desktop&source=twitter
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sakabatou
(42,136 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)That anyone could think it isn't is a sad commentary on our current world.
bravenak
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JHan
(10,173 posts)Unimaginably fucked up:
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heaven05
(18,124 posts)seems to me that the human race is being desensitized to the violence allowed in this real scenario and regular movies, so that when the civilian casualties start rising in the coming world wide hostilities caused by putin and his american mongrel puppy, we'll be used to it. Maybe.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)show meant to desensitize citizens to the upcoming hard time....and get us all prepared to live them. Hell in this country trumpfuhrer will see to that.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Come on, people.
Aimee in OKC
(158 posts)II you go by Snopes, then this ... thing ... appears to be real, since the item Snopes rebutted was about crimes "being allowed", by citing the part about 'all crimes committed in the course of the show were prosecutable'.
http://www.snopes.com/russian-reality-show-game2-winter-allows-rape-murder/
oberliner
(58,724 posts)That's what this is a Russian version of.
The concept of rape and murder being part of the show is what is fake, as Snopes points out.
Russia having a knock-off of Survivor is not newsworthy; people made up a lie that the show will allow rape and murder and gullible folks believed it.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Hungry lions were circling their camp as the last remnants of the group, down to skin and bones, were deadly sick from eating contaminated fruit and some had to be airlifted.
I thought a few would die before our very eyes. Hunger Games for real. Producers should be fired, putting all those lives at risk.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)The government doesn't want to be involved. The big tech companies are reluctant at best. So what to do?
That article immediately follows The Daily Beast running of something that is obviously fake news.
world wide wally
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jmowreader
(50,528 posts)You can get on this show one of two ways: by being selected in an "online voting session," or by paying 10 million rubles. The people who make the cut (15 men and 15 women, is what they're hoping for) will be given survival training by Russian special forces veterans then taken, with no more than 220 pounds of supplies and equipment per person, to the Siberian taiga on July 1, 2017, and left there until April 1, 2018. Anyone who survives until the end gets an even share of a 100 million ruble prize. They currently don't get any guns, only knives - but the show's producers are trying to get them permission to hunt, and if that happens they'll probably also get guns. Participants are allowed to form teams. If you get too badly injured or too sick to continue, they'll pull you out - otherwise, you're on your own.
Now...if these guys team up into one group, this is totally doable. Everyone takes 75 pounds of clothing. Everyone takes 75 pounds of food items you can't find out in the taiga - flour, fats, milk powder, things like that. Everyone takes at least a gallon of gasoline. You get a lot of tools, gardening supplies and construction materials like two chainsaws, nails, rope, fishing equipment, standard carpentry tools, etc, and split them up among the group. The instant you get there you start planting cabbages and winter squash, and foraging for other foods.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)jmowreader
(50,528 posts)...to note they're not going to let you kill your opponents.
Kablooie
(18,608 posts)Russian reality "Game 2 - Winter", which is under preparation, will have themselves a similar show in the world. On the extreme, on the border of survival. According to the website of the project, its initiators decided to make an experiment and to discover whether the common man can survive the winter in the taiga with limited food supplies.
Project participants will to survive in the forest in winter. It is virtually impossible. Bears, snakes, poisonous berries, mushrooms. Each party agrees that it can be maimed and even killed. This Siberian taiga. 2000 cameras, 900 hectares and 30 lives will be waiting for you.
The organizers of this extreme games promise 9 months live broadcast on federal television, international composition of the participants and 2,500 hunting rabbits.
None of the participants will be secured from harm, even from death, he warned Pjatkovski. The rule is that there are no rules. During the nine months of the duration of the show, you can do whatever you want - to drink, to smoke, you can fight. However, the competitors will have to abide by Russian laws and in the case of proving the offense, the police will arrest them.
The essence of the game boils down to the scenario of Robinson Crusoe: 30 participants of different sex and age (over 18 years) will try to survive in the Siberian taiga during 9 months in extreme conditions - bears, snakes, poisonous berries, mushrooms, cold of 40 degrees below zero . Each player with you can carry 100 kilograms of cargo. According to the "Siberian weather," reality show participants will have to make stocks of food in order to survive the cold months, while in the winter to catch fish in a frozen lake.
Those who feel that they are running out of power or they get sick they can press the button to request assistance. The helicopter will come immediately after them, but it would also mean the end of their participation in the game.
The value of the project amounts to 15 million euros. The winner of the reality show will receive 1.5 million euros. However, it should be noted that this is a reality primarily for wealthy people. Place in the "Game 2 - Winter" can buy "only" 150,000 euros. For those who do not have the money, provides for the possibility to enter the game winning votes through the Internet and SMS messages. During the check-in candidate. The show starts on 1 July next year and will last until 1 April 2018. It will be broadcast live 24 hours 7 days a week throughout the world. On-site there will be a cameraman, but the whole forest will be "decorated" cameras - 2,000 units on 900 acres. The transfer will be translated simultaneously into English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic. Organizers hope to attract the mega project of two billion viewers, and believe that this will be a very entertaining and educational show. Will it be the case, we'll find out a year.
Даље: https://rs.sputniknews.com/drustvo/201612181109298546-Rijaliti-rusija-Sibir-sou1/
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Over 12 hours old when posted. Published 12.17.16 3:39 AM ET, Posted at DU Sun Dec 18, 2016, 12:06 PM
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