Hollywood: How We Define if We Love or Hate

We love Jennifer Lawrence. The way she smiles, laughs, tells jokes, acts...it's all perfect. But we can't stand Anne Hathaway. Everything she does has an air of arrogance, and she's so unrelatable. But she's a real person, one who put herself out there for the world to judge, and society has just decided that we as a whole cannot stand her. WHY?

The part of the human population that tunes into Hollywood on a daily, monthly, or yearly basis all have their own opinions on what these stars should represent. Some of us expect to see true Hollywood glamour, with the glint of success in their eyes, and the red carpet saunter of an age-old professional. Others of us would rather see someone accepting an award that represents the same things we do: normalcy, humor, and lighthearted, genuine fun. It's easy to look at different people and judge how they portray themselves. It's easy because we judge them based on what we expect to see. If they don't fit into the confines of what we fine as "right", they immediately get cast aside.

It's a system of Love vs. Hate.

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So how come no one is immune to the crazy trends of Hollywood love and hate? How come, even when someone is the brightest star one day, they can so easily be dulled the next? That's because it's just that: Trends. The rocky world of stardom is a place where things are easily unbalanced. Dating the wrong person one day could set you off the popular track just as easily as hitting someone with your car.

The trick to surviving the uncertain, wild world of fame is to follow the ever-changing trends. No one is ever going to please every single human being out there; there will always be individuals with differing views, opinions, and morals. But as long as the stars can continue to turn a blind eye to the haters, as well as to represent themselves in their best light by being 'themselves'--aka what the public wants them to be--they have a shot at being loved, instead of hated.

Divergent Makes a Big Splash

First there was the "Hunger Games", which drove teens into a frenzy to idolize those stars who appeared as front-runners in the Hollywood world. Jennifer Lawrence received a cataclysmic amount of accolades for her performance, and Josh Hutcherson became everyone's newest boy crush. But now there's a new movie on the scenes, and it's one that's causing just as much of a buzz. "Divergent", which is based on a best-seller, has turned into the newest Hunger Games, and fans are going wild.

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Being praised as what many would call "the next Hunger Games", Divergent attracts attention for its action, love story, and impossibly cool futuristic division of community. While it didn't have to do much advertising or PR to appeal to the masses, Divergent was immediately recognized as a potential success, and it rocked its first weekend in the box office. The main characters in the movie are all well-known actors already, and so additionally, that helped gain some notoriety for the film.

While it may not have gotten the same positive critique that the Hunger Games did, Divergent did an amazing job of gathering a following before the film even came out. There are many online polls asking people if they support Katniss, the star of the Hunger Games, or Tris, the heroine of Divergent. Whoever the public decides is the winner, there's one thing for sure: both of these movies won out at the box office, and their continuing sequels are sure to do the same.