Dear Readers,
I’ve just had the opportunity to see the finished film of The Hunger Games. I’m really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another. The film opens up the world beyond Katniss’ point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow’s rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story.
Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he’s also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building’s fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol. It’s amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.
And, my God, the actors. The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It’s such a pleasure to see how they’ve embodied the characters and brought them to life.
So I’d like to sincerely thank all the many people who devoted their time and talents to the film, especially producers Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, and the excellent teams at Color Force, Larger Than Life, and Lionsgate.
I hope you enjoy the film!
For Eden.
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Have a bit of Hunger Games art!
I can’t wait!
That is an awesome sign.
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![[On her favorite scene from The Hunger Games]: The first time that Katniss has to go into the cylinder and she goes up into the arena and looks around and sees it for the first time, knowing that when that trumpet blows she could die. The thing that’s great about her is she’s not a murderer. She’s a hunter, but she’s not a killer. I told Gary [Ross, the director], “I totally understand if you don’t hire me, but please remember that after Katniss shoots a bow and kills someone her face cannot be badass. It has to be broken.“ She has to be heartbroken because she just took another person’s life. It’s so tempting, especially with a cool, big budget franchise movie, but we have to remember that she’s a 16-year-old girl who’s being forced to do this. These kids are only killing each other because if they don’t, they’ll die. It’s needless, pointless, unjustified violence. So there’s nothing cool about her. It’s not like she looks around the arena and goes “Yeah, I got this, I’m going to do this.” I think she looks around terrified and thinks, “Well there are all the million different ways that I can die.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrm5dggWn61qabls9o1_500.jpg)
[On her favorite scene from The Hunger Games]: The first time that Katniss has to go into the cylinder and she goes up into the arena and looks around and sees it for the first time, knowing that when that trumpet blows she could die. The thing that’s great about her is she’s not a murderer. She’s a hunter, but she’s not a killer. I told Gary [Ross, the director], “I totally understand if you don’t hire me, but please remember that after Katniss shoots a bow and kills someone her face cannot be badass. It has to be broken.“ She has to be heartbroken because she just took another person’s life. It’s so tempting, especially with a cool, big budget franchise movie, but we have to remember that she’s a 16-year-old girl who’s being forced to do this. These kids are only killing each other because if they don’t, they’ll die. It’s needless, pointless, unjustified violence. So there’s nothing cool about her. It’s not like she looks around the arena and goes “Yeah, I got this, I’m going to do this.” I think she looks around terrified and thinks, “Well there are all the million different ways that I can die.”
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// So I have been mysteriously absent for the past four days because I have been reading The Hunger Games Trilogy.//
Just finished. Now I can resume my life.
Before when I heard people praising The Hunger Games, I was like yeah okay sound kind of interesting. But no. THE HUNGER GAMES!
P.S. I refrained from checking the cast list until after I read the books because I wanted to have my own idea of what the characters looked like. Katniss was always Emily Browning for me. But Lenny Kravitz is playing Cinna?!?! How random. But I fully support the inclusion of Donald Sutherland, Woody Harrelson and Stanley Tucci.
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