The Hunger Games: Grade, Review, Discuss, Sequel news **SPOILERS**
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In the book Katniss questions the motives of everyone Gameskeepers and especially Peeta. She does not have any "real" feelings for Peeta beyond he saved me that night by giving me bread. She almost resents him cause it's a debt she feels she can't repay. Peeta does however have feelings for her. Feelings that Haymitch sees as real. Katniss thinks Peeta is using the idea of romance as a bargaining chip(Haymitch is using it but not Peeta). In the book she and Peeta spend several days together in the cave whereas in the movie it's at most a day and half. Katniss durig these days in the caves allows herself to think of Peeta as more than a means to an end. She also begins to wonder if she's misread Gale's motivations(like his "lets run off and live in the woods" comment. Katniss has never seen herself as 'desirable' a word tossed into the movie to drive that home post-interviews I think. So now Katniss is wondering if two guys like her and what she may feel for both. In the book she pushes the thoughts of them in the same space out of mind. She finds it disrupting for them to occupy the same time in her thoughts. To really drive home how her feelings are shifting there is one kiss where it implies she means it, not as a kiss to get a parachute. Her thoughts read something to the effect, "I wish the cameras weren't here now. I want this moment for myself", something to that phrasing.
I hope I helped some vs making it worse.
^ Thanks for that info. As someone who hasn't read the books, I think the movie managed to convey pretty much the gist of what you outline above through the performances of Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Woody Harrelson.
I thought she had a longer kiss because Haymitch wanted her to play it up more.
SO true I would've gutted them in there sleep. that would've brought in all kinds of sponsors. now have you read the books?
Noticed this while I was in town today and passed by the local Waterstones. Kindly donated by one of the store workers for the display. Anyone else spotted anything like this for it?
huh?
That is another thing I didn't get, I haven't read the books, I know the first couple of districts are career tributes etc, but why when those 4 are sleeping did one of them not kill the others? Are they honor bound to not kill until its just the last 2 districts left? Then how do they determine who lives and who dies? Does the 4 just run in opposite directions? They just seemed really excited and happy, like they were camping, but weren't they thinking...How am I going to kill these other guys.
Noticed this while I was in town today and passed by the local Waterstones. Kindly donated by one of the store workers for the display. Anyone else spotted anything like this for it?
huh?
I didn't think many stores would actually have the bow out for a book display.
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I haven't any displays with a bow , that is pretty cool. I didn't get a chance to see this on the weekend, was busy and dealing with the usual back pain, so hope to see this some time later this week. I'm glad that it had such a huge opening!
I saw it this weekend and I liked.
WH and EB were spot on as Effie and Haymitch. LK impressed me. He did manage the controlled dignity that was Cinna.
I felt that the games were a bit of a letdown though. I did not feel the urgency watching the film. But, Rue's death was still gutting.
Overall I give it a solid B.
I wonder when they are going to flim the second one?
WH and EB were spot on as Effie and Haymitch. LK impressed me. He did manage the controlled dignity that was Cinna.
I felt that the games were a bit of a letdown though. I did not feel the urgency watching the film. But, Rue's death was still gutting.
Overall I give it a solid B.
I wonder when they are going to flim the second one?
I think they want to start shooting fairly soon (just my guess), Gary Ross has stated he wants to film back in North Carolina again...Jennifer Lawrence is contracted again for "X-Men: First Class 2"...I think I saw "Catching Fire" is slated for a November 2013 release, and they will probably start shooting the First Class sequel sometime next year for a 2014 release. It is possible her schedules may overlap.
Historically, those two districts have been the winners more times than not. It's against the rules to train for the Hunger Games, but they do it anyway ... There was a line in the movie about Cato going to the "training school" which was a way of condensing that bit.
Basically, in those two districts, they have training, and they train hard for those games. It doesn't matter whose name gets called, because they've already chosen which 18 year old male and female will volunteer. There is a defined process for how they choose which volunteers will go through as tributes, as they often have several volunteers.
It's different in 12, where Catnip is from. They have only had one volunteer in their 74 years of doing the games, and nobody can remember the process (if there even is one), so Effie wings it.
As for what happens when there's four ... Well, they start killing each other. It's four people who are the biggest and strongest, most well-trained from the districts up against more-or-less weak children who have trained, at best, for a week or two in the capital.
At that point, it really doesn't matter who the winner is, there's not a whole lot of drama.
Til Catnip came around.
X-Men had her contracted first, and they contracted the actors for three movies, so Fox (I think it's Fox, right?) has first dibs. That said, the two studios are actually working together (I know, who knew they could do that?). X-Men will shoot first, and then she'll go right into Hunger Games, and they are coordinating their schedules so both can have her when they need her.
NPR did an interview with Jennifer and with the director, Gary Ross. That's how I heard about the studios working together.
And about Jennifer's utter terror of insects. That part was funny.
So the official actuals for the weekend have THG at $152m domestic and $211m worldwide.
An impressive 3-day opener for a summer film...let alone the first weekend of Spring!!
This movie could do more bank than half a dozen summer tent pole films.
The odds were very much in Lionsgate's favor this weekend.
An impressive 3-day opener for a summer film...let alone the first weekend of Spring!!
This movie could do more bank than half a dozen summer tent pole films.
The odds were very much in Lionsgate's favor this weekend.
This also crossed my mind when I was watching the movie. It's not like the tributes were playing as teams (or even partners at the beginning) to win the game. So the "alpha" tributes could've eliminated the threats by first killing the weakest links and then going after the biggest threats in the group.
Without going iinto to much detail I will say that in one of the books it tells of how, many years before , a pair of contestants paired up to help each other out, but agreed to separated when there was only 5 contestants left so that the pair would not have to face each in a final showdown.
I suppose that many of the alliances were meant to end in a similar way.
Edited to add: something I just thought of - how did the male comtestant from district 11 know that Katniss had helped out Rue when he spared Katniss for that reason?
Edited to add - just read in the book how he knew but it wasn't in the movie so people who haven't read the book might be confused by it.
I suppose that many of the alliances were meant to end in a similar way.
Edited to add: something I just thought of - how did the male comtestant from district 11 know that Katniss had helped out Rue when he spared Katniss for that reason?
Edited to add - just read in the book how he knew but it wasn't in the movie so people who haven't read the book might be confused by it.
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That was my first question, How did the district 11 dude know Katniss helped Rue?
And why wasn't Rue with the big dude, as it appeared he cared for her?
Is it known in the books how the younger ones would have any shot in beating the career tributes? It seems like you are essentially cannon fodder.