The popularity of these films and the novels on which they are based makes them useful as pedagogical tools. Films on international relations have the benefit of making abstract ideas concrete, while opening the door to critical discussions of concepts and theories in IR Weber ; Gregg Used in the classroom The Hunger Games films can make students a witness to fictionalized insecurities, but the series also provides a useful jumping-off point for discussions of the daily experience of insecure persons worldwide.
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Indeed, Katniss could very well be multiracial. The casting of Lawrence, blonde and blue-eyed, initially caused a furor. But the actress's portrayal of the character has been generally been lauded. There are a couple. In the movie, there is a four-note whistle that becomes prominent as a signal that everything is okay. As for official songs, Taylor Swift created a moody, somber track called "Safe and Sound" for the first album:.
Lorde takes over the reins in Mockingjay , with a more vindictive, booming song called "Yellow Flicker Beat":. Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played an important supporting character in Catching Fire , died during the filming of the final two movies. Production was halted as producers decided between rewriting the script to change Hoffman's role or creating a CGI image of Hoffman to act out his remaining parts. He had two scenes with dialogue that were left, and we decided we didn't want to try any kind of digital trickery with him, so we rewrote his scenes and gave his dialogue to other actors.
So there was one scene from Part 1 and one scene from Part 2 , so we shot both movies back to back. Katniss Everdeen and everything she stands for —independence, ferocity, kicking ass — are pop culture fixtures. Collins's story about a girl coming into her own and finding her worth ended up inspiring many. The Hunger Games has also impacted the young adult genre. While there are still books being written with girls and young women who resemble Twilight 's Bella, there are even more characters who resemble Katniss.
Look no further than the dystopian young adult Divergent series, or the Beautiful Creatures series. Both were wildly successful, as was a movie based on the first Divergent book. The success of The Hunger Games also changed the way movie executives thought about young adult and female audiences.
Its huge box office draw shattered the myth that no one would want to see a movie with female leads. But it also had a more immediate effect. After The Hunger Games dominated the box office, a bevy of young adult movie adaptations were greenlit and produced see: Divergent , Beautiful Creatures , City of Bones. Studios wanted to tap into that market, but none of those movies came close to cashing in the way the Hunger Games did, though Divergent was quite successful.
The symbolism of big government and feminism might be low-hanging fruit, considering how much the movies utilize those themes. What the movies ignore is how important food is in the novel. Peeta throws a loaf of bread at Katniss, showing that he loves her. Katniss shares food with Rue to show that she cares. Katniss's concept of currency is in the squirrels she hunts. The Capitol feeds the tributes exorbitantly before sending them off to their deaths. And Katniss and Peeta share a "lamb stew" that is never reflected in the movies.
But I found it curious that for a movie with Hunger in the title, it never really stressed the importance of food like Collins does in the book," is something you could say. But be warned, this might make you look like a pretentious jerk — unless that's what you're going for. If you're athletic, it helps to be good at throwing knives. Cashmere and Gloss, the brother-sister victors from District 1, and Clove, the fifth-place finisher in the first book, all got pretty far thanks to excellent knife-throwing skills.
Going off the fuzzy data though there are 74 victors, the book doesn't go into detail into how each winner won and skips over a few , throwing knives two winners, one fifth-place finisher is a better choice than a bow and arrow one winner, one idiot who died getting stung by genetically modified bees , trident one winner , or battle axe one winner.
If you're fragile but really smart, just get really good at starving one winner. Or, even better, learn how to camouflage yourself three winners. If you're neither, just hope the world never descends into a politically resonant dystopia. And if it does , hope you're never picked. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all.
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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. The Hunger Games, explained. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. What is a Mockingjay? Mockingjay Part-1 They are the crux of Collins's book. Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen, a. Katniss is stubborn, savvy, and paranoid. She is selfless and strong. Jennifer Lawrence in Catching Fire Hunger Games: Catching Fire Though the most pronounced theme in The Hunger Games is a distrust of adults, authority, and the government, there's also an underlying theme of feminism woven throughout the books.
The Hunger Games live up to their name. This is Peeta. He is not a pocket of bread. The tributes were mistreated before the games and held in the Capitol Zoo for the 10th edition, leading to several of them dying before those games — which take place in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes — even took place.
Those original games were held in the Capitol Arena with weapons the only supplies to the tributes, and the winner was just sent back to their District without the lavish riches that later winners would receive. It was the 10th Hunger Games that started the move towards the event that we came to know in the original series.
They were the first to introduce mentors for the tributes Coriolanus was Lucy's mentor and, thanks to Coriolanus, sponsorship of the tributes was created and muttations Dr Gaul's invention were unleashed in the arena for the first time. Lucretius Flickerman relationship to Caesar Flickerman is left unclear became the first-ever TV host of the games, but the overall games were such a disaster that Dr Gaul destroyed all recordings of the games, keeping only one copy for herself.
And one final question that the prequel answers about the origins of the Hunger Games is about the name. It's called the Hunger Games because during the rebellion, the rebels held the food-producing districts to starve the Capitol, resulting in people in the Capitol resorting to cannibalism to survive. So the name is another reminder of the starvation that people suffered during the rebellion, and a nod to the dark depths they went to. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is out now. Digital Spy now has a newsletter — sign up to get it sent straight to your inbox.
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