New Statesman -- "Satiation Games" -- May 3
 

Basil Ransome-Davies takes the Tesco vouchers this week, and Bill Greenwell is also a winner.

To assist with one aspect of the next competition, here's a link to the British Board of Film Classification website, with details on the 12A rating

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/12a12/

No 4225 Set by Leonora Casement
Compers are invited to send in the plot summary and casting ideas for a new film: “The Satiation Games”. Please include reasons for its 12A rating. Max 150 words by 3 May comp@newstatesman.co.uk

Satiation Games
 

Being hopelessly out of touch with most aspects of present-day life, I was puzzled by the phrase "Satiation Games" until I stumbled upon references to a book/film called "The Hunger Games". I assume that this is the intended model or target of the competition.

I assume you're right, Brian -- at least to the extent that the made-up film title is a play on the real one. Not sure that our "Games" has to imitate or parody the dystopian, post-apocalyptic original. Maybe we can let the proposed title carry our imaginations in other directions, he murmured hopefully.

Maybe something like:

Satiation Games: Scott (Ashton Kutscher) is a celebrity in the glamorous world of hotdog eating competitions, until one day he develops a severe allergy to rat hair, even in trace amounts, and his career is threatened. A chance meeting with beautiful Rebecca (Emma Stone), an Orthodox Jew, provides a possible solution, as they fall in love and begin a quixotic campaign to require hotdog eating competitions to use only kosher ingredients. The powerful pork industry will do anything to stop them. Will Scott and Rebecca survive?