Guessing game

[pen_grunt]

D and I watched "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" on Saturday night. Sunday morning, I heard the news that Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Plutarch Heavensbee in HG) was dead.

Me (to D): Time to play: guess which actor in the movie we watched last night is now dead?
D: That Peeta Mellark guy? (Josh Hutcherson).
Me: No. Think drug overdose, not car accident.
D: Jennifer Lawrence?
Me: ?! How, in a movie with Woody Harrelson and Donald Sutherland and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, is your first guess for drug overdose Jennifer Lawrence?!
D: I dunno. Is it Woody Harrelson?
Me: No!

I don't typically get weird about actor deaths or anything, but there's this strange sense of "Oh, I just saw him!" since we just watched HG.

Comments

[tediousandbrief.livejournal.com]

Me: ?! How, in a movie with Woody Harrelson and Donald Sutherland and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, is your first guess for drug overdose Jennifer Lawrence?!


hahaha * infinity.

In seriousness, this death has hit me as well, having just seen that film when it came out. I always thought he'd probably win a few more Oscars for his work.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

D clearly doesn't follow celebrity stuff that closely. I'm kind of surprised he even remembered her name.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Maybe Michael Gambon can replace him in the series.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Hey, it worked for Harry Potter. D likes Michael Gambon better than Richard Harris. I disagree.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

I question D's taste on this one. Gambon played it too angry. "'ARRY! DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIIIIRE???" and he grabs the boy.

Plus, I wanted Peter O'Toole.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

He thought that Harris sounded too much like he was about to die. I thought that was the point.

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

How, in a movie with Woody Harrelson and Donald Sutherland and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, is your first guess for drug overdose Jennifer Lawrence??

*firmly buckles on Y chromosome*
Because a Jennifer Lawrence OD would be the most surprising!

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Are you now, or have you ever participated in, a death pool? Because D does that...so I think that might be a component--going for the high-risk, high-return guess.

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

Not a 'death pool' as in dead people.
More a 'new recruit fired/quitting' pool.
And just for yuks, not bucks.

I was simply Thinkin' Like a Man!