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The Hunger Games: Grade, Review, Discuss, Sequel news **SPOILERS**

How would you rate The Hunger Games?

  • A

    Votes: 37 45.1%

  • B

    Votes: 30 36.6%

  • C

    Votes: 10 12.2%

  • D

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • F

    Votes: 4 4.9%
  • Total voters
    82
  • Poll closed .
But most of the kids in the poorer districts didn't train because they were too busy surviving and hoping that they would not be reaped, and the odds were that the vast majority of children never took part in the games. There seems to have been at least a couple of hundred children who names were in the reaping each year in District 12 and only 2 were picked each year, so why would they use their energy training if they had a very good chance of not being picked?

The merchants' children had even less chance of being picked as they didn't need to have extra entries in return for extra food. Peeta would have only had 5 or 6 entries (one for each year since he turned 12) in the bowl, while Gale (from a poor family) had 42 (one each year and an additional 5 each year for the extra food each family member recieved).

The only ones that trained were the careers and they were only a small proportion of the people in their neighbourhood - the children of District 1 and 2 in the movies (as well as 4 in the book) didnt even worry about being reaped as they knew that if they were they would be replaced by a volunteer.
 
Miss Chicken said:
By law viewing the Games is compulsory. Even people in the Capitol are living under a nasty regime that they have reason to fear.

Also take into account that the average person in the Capitol doesn't get to met people from the Districts (as travel is tightly controlled). As a result the people the Capitol do not see District people as being on the same level as themselves. They think that District people exist to provide them with their needs and to entertain them.
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People being forced in the capitol is another "it doesn't come off like that in the movie" moment. In the Olympic Stadium parade of the tributes looked like there where more cheering citizens then there were District 12 teenagers lined up for the lottery. Was the cheering of citizens in a way the same as North Koreans crying when a Kim dies? How large is a district anyway, from the size of the formation of teen agers it looked like a medium sized town?
 
District 12 is the smallest district with about 8 thousand people and I believe that that is the only district which a population figure is given for.

I don't think that the people in the Capitol are forced to look at the Games in the same way as the people in the Districts are but even in the Capitol it is dangerous to oppose President Snow in any way.

It is obvious in the movie that Seneca Crane is executed without a trial for allowing two tributes to live.
 
I've never read the books but have seen a movie guide stating that each district has its own special production or industry. For example, District 12 has mining. 11, where Rue came from, has agriculture. Others have technology, textiles, livestock, metal, etc. Thus each district serves the Capitol City and its elite population in one way or another.
 
Not having read the books, I really enjoyed the movie. I don't know how true Lawrence's characterization of Katniss was to the book but I was captivated by her and her ability to emote using nothing but her facial features. The storyline reminded me a lot of "The Running Man" and "The Most Dangerous Game". I have to say that the Hunger Games are an extremely twisted and bizarre way for a post-apocalyptic society to maintain order but, given that this has apparently been going on for 75 years by the start of the story, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that they are viewed as completely normal, albeit something to be feared. I couldn't believe that the PTB tried changing the rules (allowing for only a single victor) back just as Katniss and Peeta had emerged triumphant over the rest of the tributes- though their response to the situation was nothing short of brilliant. I'm looking forward to reading the books now.
 
JediKnightButler said:
I couldn't believe that the PTB tried changing the rules (allowing for only a single victor) back just as Katniss and Peeta had emerged triumphant over the rest of the tributes- though their response to the situation was nothing short of brilliant.
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I saw that plot twist (changing the rules again) coming from a mile. I knew that it couldn't end that easily and that Katniss and Peeta would be pitted against each other.
 
It seems that the reports about director Gary Ross exiting the Hunger Games franchise may have been a bit premature, although there is still a chance he won't return to direct Catching Fire.

Part of the concern appears to be the fact that Lionsgate intends to start filming the sequel in August, and Ross reportedly is concerned (quite understandably) that four months is not enough time for pre-production, especially considering that they do not even have a finished script yet. He also apparently wants a raise, and given the success of this film, I don't see why that would be much of a problem (unless Lionsgate decides to be really stingy).

I can see why Ross would be concerned about the schedule -- it's always better to wait until you're sure you can do it right rather than rush into production. Of course, I can see things from the studio's perspective as well; there's definitely something to be said about striking while the iron is hot. Plus, there's the same issue that was a concern in the Harry Potter series: the aging the characters versus the aging of the actors. With several of the main characters/actors being rather young, it may strain believability if they wait too long to film the next installment (this is based on my understanding that Catching Fire takes place a year later, during the 75th annual Hunger Games).

The current plan is to start filming in August/September for a release in the fall of 2013. If there's a delay, there may be a conflict with Lawrence's schedule for the X-Men: First Class sequel, which is supposed to commence filming next January (and Fox has first dibs on her for that). That could push back filming of Catching Fire to spring or summer of next year, which would mean it wouldn't be ready for release until spring or summer of 2014 (I think that could work, but I wouldn't wait any longer than that).

Of course, Lionsgate will probably want to keep to the schedule they currently have, and if Ross doesn't agree to it... well, then I imagine he and the studio would part company. Despite the success of The Hunger Games, I have a feeling Lionsgate views Ross as replaceable.
 
Miss Chicken said:
District 12 is the smallest district with about 8 thousand people and I believe that that is the only district which a population figure is given for.

I don't think that the people in the Capitol are forced to look at the Games in the same way as the people in the Districts are but even in the Capitol it is dangerous to oppose President Snow in any way.

It is obvious in the movie that Seneca Crane is executed without a trial for allowing two tributes to live.
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I think that things in the Capitol are supposed to be more complicated than what we've seen thus far. As I understand it, never having read the books, the first book does not give much insight into life in the Capitol since it is told mostly from Katniss' perspective and she does not know about life there.

However, life is not all roses in the Capitol either. Panem is supposed to be a pretty brutal regime for everyone. Apparently few people actually work in the Capitol and many of its residents are massively in debt in order to maintain their standard of living and the pretense of being ok. People are concisely deluding themselves into thinking that things are great even when they know they are not. People in that situation are more likely to throw themselves into mindless rituals like the Hunger Games in order to cover their deeper concerns about what is happening in their own lives.
 
Evidently there are seven or eight names under consideration to direct Catching Fire.

Options under consideration include blatantly ripping off the Harry Potter franchise by hiring Alfonso Cuaron; David Cronenberg; and, of all people, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, director of depressing miserabilist dramas like 21 Grams and Babel.
 
Get Cronenberg to do it; he'll make a better movie and use the cachet towards making a better movie with a decent budget afterwards.
 
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A bit of both. Some smart marketing people probably saw this coming and decided to capitalize on the inevitable misaimed fandoms.
 
After 4 weeks as the top movie in the land The Hunger Games was knocked down to 3rd place with $14.5m in week five.
It's domestic total now stands at $356.9m, international of $215.8=worldwide total of $572.7m

It'll hit $400m domestic and easily go over $600m WW in a few weeks.
 
Saw it the other day with the soon-to-be teenage son. He obviously liked it, but I found it to be utterly predictable. C'est la vie.

Cheers,
-CM-
 
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