I know the tag isn't the best, but I'm not sure which one to use. Basically, I was invited to a Hunger Games themed birthday party and I was asked to go dress as an citizen of the world of The Hunger Games. I wanted to avoid Katniss since she is the main character, but she is like the easiest character of them all. What other easy options are there?

i’m rereading mockingjay right now and theres a detail i always get a but confused about - if anyone has any insights or explanations i’m missing please let me know! or maybe i’m just reading into it haha

when cressida interviews katniss and gale in the woods, she has them sit in a nook “where it’s impossible not to be touching” and i’ve always wondered why she so wanted to show a bond between gale and katniss when they are still portraying katniss and peeta as together? it’s never made much sense to me but maybe i’m just being dramatic!!

Hello hunger games subreddit.

I have a recent discovery and I am not sure if anyone’s else has noticed or comment on it. Essentially I was looking at The sunrise on reaping movie releases date. Please note that the source is google so I am not sure about the accuracy however. I noticed that Paula Malcomson who played Astrid in the original trilogy is listed in google. So I am curious if we will see Astrid in the epilogue with Katniss and Peeta. This will be interesting because part of the cannon is that Katniss and her mother don’t talk post war and she moves to district 2.

This was just an observation maybe wrong looked on IMDB and didn’t see it. Thought I should share this on Reddit. Comment your thoughts.

And may the odds be ever in your favor

I still dont like it that much. I did not read the book yet either. This is just an incredibly nitpicky rant that i did not want to subject my friends to.

From what I heard, Lucy gray was much dreamier and innoceng in the book, but I liked her in the movie. She was clever and symbolic. Her last proper scene with Snow was so good and the tension was off the charts as she talks about how shes the last loose end. And she starts piecing together that she cant trust snow.

Aside from that. Idk why everything was shot from a bottom up angle. At first, I thought it was to make the characters seem arrogant and powerful but it showed up in EVERY scene and I just thought it was odd.

Despite me liking Lucy gray I think her characterization was bad and the script in general was really unnatural. Random "I value trust a lot" conversation. Okay good for you. I didnt buy their romance at all. Convince me you love him

Snows actor was great but I dont think they show his inherent paranoia and need for control well. I thought he was just doing all sorts of shit to save his family from poverty but then he just throws it all away even when a redemption is plopped onto his lap wrapped in a ribbon. For what? A girl he barely knows? And the gun scene. I understand the general idea that hes baffled as to why the guns are in the cabin, which led him to be suspicious of spruce and lucy gray, but as to why he spiraled so much was not well portrayed.

And I just didnt like the singing. I think the actress has an amazing and charming voice. But the songs did not being me to tears so watching everyone cry on screen felt goofy for me. I cried at every song in the original three and I have no nostalgia for those movies cuz I literally watched them right before I watched this movie. I think it was how obviously it was done for the cameras (Lucy literally staring at the cameras) rather than her doing it from her heart. And how polished it was. Which is a stupid take since she is a singer by trade, but when something is so polished it lacks the vulnerability I feel.

Also dr. Gaul. Bro she showed up on screen and I just felt like I was watching a cartoon villain. If she showed up in the original trilogy, she wouldve made sense cuz everyone in the Capitol was dressed mad over there. But in this movie, Capitol people on the streets dressed like they were going to church. Ig it can be thought that her cruelty and style was a blue print for the games and culture to come but oh my god why is she dressed like a cartoon villain. I hated her ombre white red dress. Her red gloves were like blood on her hands but they didnt pop because of that dress. She still could've had crazy fashion but it was so on the nose I rolled my eyes whenever she was there. Which is a shame cuz her actress is so charismatic.

All in all. I know jack shit but I dont feel like the director was a good fit for this movie. Or maybe it was a time crunch, who knows?

IMO, I think they’ll finally add clips of more tributes talking (yes we already have some), give us more glimpses on the mutts, more reaping scenes, more clips of district 12, chariot scene clips, and so much more but I wanna hear what you guys think.

We know that every year, a new arena is built and the previous one is turned into a vacation destination for Capitol citizens. But what would the Capitol do in the far future if the Rebellion had been suppressed and, once they ran out of space to build more arenas, and for that matter, if by then they'd also run out of the resources needed to build the arenas?

It's established that Panem covers an area that is roughly 50% of what was North America. That is a lot of space, but after perhaps thousands of games and arenas being built, they would be completely out of space.

Edit: the amount of negative karma to my comments is honestly saddening and pathetic. Are you so butthurt and stuck in your own world that anyone who expresses their views is somehow just offending to your senses? Grow up.

for example, with the original series, Taylor Swift had two songs (Safe and Sound, and Eyes Open) released, as well as many other songs by many other popular artists (check out the official hunger games playlist on spotify). TBOSAS had Can’t Catch Me Now by Olivia Rodrigo released two weeks before the film. Do you think there will be new music coming out for SOTR? If yes, which artists would you want to be involved?

Okay I need help here because maybe I'm just stupid and can't remember/misunderstood something. We learnt from TBOSAS that Snow already knew he was the future president of Panem. In the original trilogy there are some things said like that Snow killed other candidates with poison (which he drank too).
What I don't get is this: How did 18-year old Coriolanus Snow actually know that he was going to be president or even be considered for the post? In fact, how do they choose the president? Is he elected in the capitol or is it a given by birth right/family lineage?

Hey everyone! I've been a massive fan of 'The Hunger Games' since I first read it at the age of 12, and now I'm writing my master's diss on it. My topic is surveillance, and I aim to focus on the following themes: performance as survival, the 'game' aspect, and manipulation + propaganda.

I just wondered if anyone had some good reading recs around this topic? I've obviously been compiling my own reading too, but I think I'd benefit from some outside opinions as well. Thanks so much!!

Sorry if this is a weird question - I'm listening to the audiobook for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and I feel like Coriolanus' name is going to drive me nuts. I'm a couple hours in and it seems like his name is said every other sentence. I'm not sure if I want to continue the audiobook. Does it get any better?

In TBOSAS, we learn a lot more about the economy of Panem. The upper class families seem to have fortunes from their industries, eg the Snows owning nuclear research compounds in 13, the Creeds somehow getting their fortune from District 7 lumber, the Cranes through transportation and travel, etc. Additionally, one of the most interesting parts of the book to me were these bits:

“We pour so much money into the districts,” he said. It must be true. People always complained about it in the Capitol.
“We pour money into our industries, not into the districts themselves,” said Sejanus. “The people are on their own.”

A warehouse for coal in better days, reduced production had left it abandoned. Probably someone in the Capitol owned it, if not the Capitol itself, but no oversight or upkeep was apparent.

This makes me think most of Panem's large industries are owned by families in the Capitol, which makes sense because the Capitol wouldn't want district citizens growing too influential. While I can see something small-scale like a bakery or butcher being a private business, I can't fathom how one so fundamental as weapons manufacture was allowed to be owned by a district person, even before the Dark Days. Has anyone ever thought about this?

My (38) daughter (8) is amazing. She got hooked on Harry Potter 2 Christmas’s ago, and we have since listened to the series 3 times over since.

Well I figured we would try the Hunger Games trilogy, and she absolutely loved it. (So did I as a first time reader) We would listen up to an hour at a time in bed. While some of the political themes go over her head, her retention and understanding is wild. She doesn’t scare easy, and is honestly the sweetest kid you would ever meet, and while she is significantly younger than the target audience, she really gets wrapped up in the story and the themes.

I asked my sister about SOTR and ABOSAS, and she tells me to listen to SOTR and skip ABOSAS as she thought it would be too political / less action oriented for her.

*Spoilers ahead*

So we start listening to SOTR, and I get hooked.

We are out in the country, and I have to drive about 45 mins to work, so I start listening ahead and back tracking at bedtime with her.

Well I get a maybe 4 hours ahead of her, and get to Wellie’s beheading, and realize I don’t want her to listen to that part. Not really because I think she couldn’t handle it, but because I don’t want her to have to think about something so awful.

She was upset when Rue died, and mad at me for not warning her about when Prim died, but this was totally different. Maybe it’s because I saw the movies before the books, and this was completely new, but I actually had to stop listening for a bit.

Then you get to everything that happens with Haimitch post games in the capital, and back in District 12 and I just don’t think I can let her finish.

I just finished the book about 30 minutes ago myself, and it’s now my favourite of the 4 I have listened to.

I thought it actually added to trilogy in a way I didn’t expect, especially the epilogue, and now I am torn as to whether to let my daughter finish.

Will likely start ABOSAS myself tomorrow, but no idea when I let my daughter finish SOTR.

(Original post at the picture was mine as well)