Before they died out they mated with female mockingbirds, creating the Mockingjay bird. The Mockingjay later became Katniss's symbol in the games and the rebellion itself.
These nasty little creatures are wasps capable of vicious stings that can cause severe swelling, hallucinations, and death. They earned their nickname because they will track and kill anyone that disturbs their nest. The Wolf Mutts are a deadly threat in the original Hunger Games and are released by the Capital to make the game more exciting. In the book, they were designed to look like fallen tributes - right down to the human-like eyes - but the movie does away with this design, where they instead resemble hulking dogs with vicious claws and teeth.
These baboon-like creatures are used in the 75th Hunger Games and attack the tributes on the beach. Their bites are lethal enough to cause internal bleeding, which leads to the death of a District 6 Morphling following the Monkey Mutts attack. Probably the most famous - and terrifying - breed is the Lizard Mutt. Victors get to live and retire in a village. That might sound great — and certainly an improvement over near certain death.
But there are some drawbacks. Collins makes clear that a life of a victor is damaged. Finnick O'dair, a good-looking victor introduced in the second and third books, became tangled in a life of prostitution after the Games, for instance. If a victor is considered desirable, the president gives them as a reward or allows people to buy them for an exorbitant amount of money.
If you refuse, he kills someone you love. So you do it," he says in Mockingjay. Still other victors become addicted to drugs after they win. It's not like the kid killing is for "fun. The deaths are supposed to shock and disgust readers and viewers. When reviews started arriving for the films, in fact, there was actually a bit of controversy over the lack of violence. Critics like Edelstein argued that the movies didn't show enough violence or the terror of the Games, which ended up dulling Collins's points.
It's possible the movie would have been more effective with an R-rating, which would have allowed more brutal violence. The biggest difference is that the book is written from a first-person perspective and peppered with Katniss's inner monologues. There are no voiceovers in the movies, which means it's up to Jennifer Lawrence to convey Katniss's confusion, paranoia, and conflicting feelings.
The other big change from the books actually surfaced during Lawrence's casting. The books don't mention Katniss's ethnicity, but hinted that she has olive skin and dark hair. 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. The film is centered around Katniss Everdeen - a year-old girl from District 12, who volunteers for her year-old sister, Prim, when Prim's name is chosen - and Katniss's fellow District 12 tribute, Peeta Mellark, with whom she has some rather dramatic history. Katniss is then rushed to the Capitol, where she undergoes intense training before being thrust into the arena to fight to become the victor of the seventy-fourth annual Hunger Games.
In order to control future rebellions by remembering the past rebellion, the Powers That Be of the dystopian society of Panem force two youngsters from each of the twelve districts to participate in The Hunger Games.
The rules are very simple: the twenty-four players must kill each other and survive in the wilderness until only one remains. The games are broadcast through the Capital and the twelve districts to entertain and intimidate the population. In District 12, teenager Katniss Everdeen is a great hunter and archer. When her younger sister, Primrose Everdeen, is selected as one of the "tributes" of their district, Katniss volunteers to take her place in the games. Together with Peeta Mellark, they head by train to the Capital to be prepared for the brutal game.
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